#Sims 3 showtime review series

#Sims 3 showtime review series

When the Sim of your friend shows up, that Sim is an NPC and not under the direct control of your friend.ДЄll in all, interesting additions have been made to the series which are probably just enough to keep the Sim addicts coming back for another round. When this occurs, itвЂ™s not like youвЂ™re actually playing online with other people sending your own Sim away takes up 12 hours of game time during which your Sim is unavailable, similar to way employment used to work in earlier games. This is also turned around with the ability for you to host the Sims of other players in your town, if you feel like allowing people on your friends list to get some stage time on your home ground. ThereвЂ™s also the ability to send your Sim off to the neighborhoods of people on your friends list-which can even be done when youвЂ™re not playing-in order to go on вЂњtourвЂќ and unlock additional items. Showtime takes all that fancy social media like Facebook and Twitter and integrates some of the functionality into the game, so if you absolutely, positively have to let everyone on your Twitter feed know that your Sim has just wet themselves on stageвЂ¦ now you can, without ever leaving the game. ItвЂ™s a nice addition that adds even more cute animation sequences to an already humorous series.ДЇinally, there are the new online additions. Once the stage is set up to satisfaction, the player can either leave it to the Sim to perform, or tweak the performance themselves by selecting specific songs, moves or tricks for a personal performance routine. Players now have the option of setting up the stage before hand, using Simoleans to purchase increasingly more complex stage lights and props, with a convenient ability to save specific configurations for the various venues performed at. The new entertainment careers benefit from the tweaking thatвЂ™s occurred since Ambitions and Late Night starting players out performing on the street, before eventually auditioning for gigs, and then becoming famous enough that theyвЂ™re asked to perform at larger and more elaborate venues. Even a lot of the items that appear here are reintroductions of dГ©cor or appliances that have appeared in past Sims games like the pool table making a return. The game itself is the same Sims that players have grown to love, so even the new careers are really just an addition of tweaks that are new, but familiar in content. The obligatory new town, Starlight Shores, shows off the new facilities for the expansion, namely performance venues, but aside from that, the big new feature here is the online capability Showtime now offers. Singers-which is an elaboration of the band career from the expansion The Sims 3: Late Night-Magicians, and Cirque Du Soleil-styled Acrobats are the big additions here, adding new вЂњquest linesвЂќ for players to pursue with a new or existing Sim. Showtime continues the trend of incrementally expanding the complexity of the SimsвЂ™ world by adding three new professions, all related to show business. The various expansions for 2009вЂ™s The Sims 3 have done everything from allowing people to finally see their Sims at work, to just creating more stuff to buy and decorate homes with.