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Summary: nah
Review: As much as I love the Sims collection, I've noticed it takes about five minutes longer for it to load with each expansion pack. After buying Vacation, I couldn't play it at all, it took so long. And there aren't many games on my computer, either. I recommend this for patient people, because I just can't be bothered to wait that long for this game.
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Summary: to clear a few things up...
Review: i contacted EA Technical Support about seeing if Hot Date was compatible with XP, and they replied: Hello, Yes, Hot Date is Compatible with Windows XP. There is no patch nor will there be a patch for Windows XP as the game is fully compatible with Windows XP.
i hope this helps some people. thanks for reading!! ;)
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Summary: WICKED!
Review: The Sims Hotdate is absoloutly great it is so cool I never stop playin on it. You create a girl and a boy and you have got to give them diffrent sir names. Then you get the boy and you ask the girl out on a date then if your luckey they will get married also you can go shopping and have a tiny baby you can die as well and you have a certain expence on money it really is the best I love it you never get bored.
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: Having all of the expansion packs to the Sims--so far, I am delighted to say that this is the best to them all. It doesn't add a tremendous amount of objects, but it adds an entire new world to the little sim "bubble" your sim has been living in. Now they can go DOWNTOWN! There are so many things to do downtown and what can I say---ITS HOT! You can now eat at nice resteraunts, go to the beach, try on new clothes and thousands of other things. ***WHY SHOULD YOU BUY THIS GAME?*** -Adds an entire new world to the sims that includes many, many activities. -Whenever you get bored with just simply having your sim wake up, get dressed, go to work, eat dinner, and go to bed you can take him/her downtown for a spicy night on the town. -New Items. They didn't add as many as I had hoped, but they added quite a few very good items. New walls and floors, tables, chairs, desks, and decor. -New SKINS-I love new skins. They added quite a few good skins to this expansion pack although I think they could've added a few more with very little effort. ***WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS FOR BUYING THIS GAME*** -If you don't have a good computer, the sims game-play will be strenuous and slow. -It crashes periodically on all systms -The downtown is extremely crowded and hard to move around in. Sometimes it take 4 to 5 hours just to get downtown and eat a small dinner. This is perhaps the most annoying aspect of this game. -You can't take a group of friends downtown with you... Just one person -There are several errors like this one--In order to get the option "call a cab" to go downtown, you must buy a specific phone. This specific phone is old-fashioned and ugly in addition to this. There are several errors like that. Should you get this? I highly recommend it
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Summary: Hot time in the city
Review: The Hot Date expansion pack adds a whole new dimension to The Sims. What with working all day and constantly fighting off hunger and fatigue, our sims just don't have a lot of time for romance and fun. Wouldn't it be great if you could simply stop time while you work on building your sims' social lives? Well, now you can do just that. Oh, time passes for your sim while he/she is out painting the town red in the new Downtown area, but you arrive back home just after you left, giving you a much-needed chance to rest and recover from your daring exploits in town (not to mention entertain any date that actually agrees to come home with you). The new Downtown area is great. Now your sims can go out dancing, hit the bars, dine out in fancy restaurants or just grab a hot dog and ice cream cone, shop for new clothes, buy gifts for one another, etc. If you want to buy a new outfit for your sim sweetie, you can have her try it on and model it for you before deciding to fork over the simulated dough. As for dating, you can simply dismiss your date if things go badly (or a more attractive prospect happens along). When things are really clicking, though, you can lay a number of different lip-locks on your lucky date, including the aptly named passionate kiss, play footsie underneath the table, and/or cuddle up and neck (right there in public, mind you). Even a seemingly casual encounter can become exciting when a sim quite taken with you suddenly jumps up into your arms. These sims are not easy by any means, however-convincing a date to come home with you requires skill and a little bit of luck. One really great thing about Hot Date is the fact that it greatly expands your world of potential friends. Once you meet a new character downtown, you can call that individual up from home to invite him/her over, ask him/her out on a date, or just talk. This makes it much easier for you to win enough friends to qualify for that big promotion you've been after at work. Hot Date is really great, but there are a couple of minor drawbacks to it. There is one bug in particular that continues to plague me. In a busy restaurant with tables placed close together, one of the NPCs can get in the way of your date, making him/her essentially freeze in place while you are stranded at the table all alone. At the best of such times, you can cancel the dining transaction, get your date moving again, and make a second attempt at ordering a meal; there have been times, however, when my sim became stuck in the Downtown area, unable to even return home, and I had to shut down the program manually or reboot. More importantly, though, Hot Date is pretty hard on the old processor. You can play the game on a PC running the minimum system requirements, but your game will be agonizingly slow at times and will continue to run slower and slower until such time as you exit, reboot, and restart the program. Overall, though, this expansion pack is by far the best of the bunch and makes possible a brand new kind of experience sure to delight all fans of The Sims.
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Summary: The Sims Rock!
Review: First of all, if you do not own the Sims, GET IT! Now you might be better off getting the deluxe version. Anyway, this has to be my favorite expansion pack out of the ones I own (Livin' Large, House Party, Hot Date and Vacation). It offers so much new stuff than the previous expansion packs. It lets you take your Sims downtown on a date or just for fun. There's tons of new object and people interactions, new objects, decorating themes, and more! You won't regret buying this!
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Summary: cool and fun
Review: this game is really cool and has like 100 new features that are jiggy! here are the pros and cons of this game
PROS~
-fun game play
-hundreds of new interactions with other sims
-many new objects
-you can go down town and do stuff on a date
CONS
-down town is kinda weird and is not that fun and it costs a lot of money (like 100$) to take a taxi there and back
-NEVER EVER USE "GOSSIP" THE OTHER SIM WILL NEVER LIKE WHAT U ARE SAYING AND IT SHOULDNT EVEN BE ON THE GAME CUZ IT DOESNT WORK
-the really stupid thing is that your house can catch fire and it burns down and u die but if this does happen just quit and come back to ur house w/out saving and every thing will be back to normal
-but if u do not save and come back ur house will catch on fire again BUY THIS GAME ITS SO FUN AND COOL AND I LIKE TO PLAY AND U SHOULD BY IT IT IS COOLER THAN LIVIN LARGE
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Summary: City Of Love has found the Sims
Review: Ahh yes, love is definitely in the air in the world of the Sims. Here is yet another expansion for "The Sims" for those of us who do not have a life and must resort to having a more interesting one in video games. (That's a joke, calm down and take a few deep breaths.) With this new expansion, "The Sims: Hot Date," there are more features to play around with than ever before. The very game itself really has no point or objective, it's just purely for entertainment's sake. (And it is very amusing for us who are too lazy to live our own lives.) You create the Sims and you move them in. In a way, you get to play God. You control them and tell them what to do. Your prime objective is to keep your Sims happy. Of course, you can make their lives a living hell as well. It all really depends on what kind of a mood you are in that day. And with this new expansion, you are given even more social interactions like never before. You are also presented with tons and tons of new objects, meaning that there is more than one way to "score." Yes, all of the expansions seem to have themes. This one is, of course, "love." Now, with a new downtown feature, your Sims can date. Sounds easy, right? Not really. As where in the first one you only had one relationship bar to worry about, now you've got two. A lifetime bar and a daily bar, which will of course make things a little more difficult for you. Better make sure your Sim likes you before you make a move on him/her, or you just might get slapped. (It's pretty embarrassing, especially in public.) The graphics are really cool and the sound is also pretty impressive. But the Sims' mindless chatting can sort of get on your nerves, especially when you can't even understand what the hell they're saying. Since this game is on a PC and there's a lot going on, the game can run very slowly. This is unavoidable, no matter how fast your computer is. So, if you want to take care of that and make the game run a little more smoother and quicker, you're going to have to go to the graphics menu and change a few things. (I guarantee you that it's helpful. The game may not look as good as it originally did, but it runs MUCH quicker.) By far, the coolest feature is the downtown feature. There are plenty of things for you to do there. Instead of just being stuck at home like in the previous versions, you now get to go out and party. There are a variety of places for you to visit. The sky's the limit. (Well, actually it's the computer screen's the limit.) Sims can meet one another, and for the first time ever, date one another. A very cool feature indeed. Overall, I found "The Sims: Hot Date" expansion to be entertaining and clever. If you loved recent Sim games, then you are bound to enjoy this one as well. Remember, you have to have a pretty fast PC to play this game properly, and you'll have to play around with the graphic settings some. And make sure you have plenty of memory, because this thing's going to take up a whole lot of it. A very amusing game, it is. I could go on and on about all sorts of things you can do in the game, but what fun would that be? The fun part is discovering the new features and interactions for yourself. Just know that it is a great game that is bound to entertain for hours and hours. Note: I know it says it on the box and people are smart enough to figure this out, but just in case, you do need "The Sims" in order to play this game. Your current Sim games do not have to be re-installed and your saved games should still be there after the patching is done.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: Although I love Hot Date to death, I still must warn potential buyers. If your computer barely meets the requirements, don't buy it or upgrade your computer. Downtown runs so slow that you can eat a meal in real life before your sims even order theirs. Plus, the game "hnags", get's stuck, and crashes. My game refuses to work with my other expansion packs and Maxis representatives told me to take it back. So unless you have a high performance pc, way beyond the minimum requirements, think twice.
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Summary: Great Game!
Review: This game is great. It was the first expansion I got, and it sure added a lot to the experience. There are so many new interactions, and it's fun to watch the Sims' reactions whether they like the interaction or not! The downtown area is a cool, it's fun to try to make the perfect lot. And what's even better is you don't have to worry about money when building towntown, nothing costs anything! So you can go crazy for free! The new careers on this expansion are really intersting, and the new items have so many interactions that even after playing this expansion for months, I'm still getting surprises. Anyway, I highly recommend this expansion, but be forewarned: you may never want to get off of the computer again!
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