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Summary: Just what I wanted: A Hot Date
Review: My daughters and I have been avid fans of The Sims since the game came out. One of our only complaints was that the Sims were limited to their own neighborhoods and never had an opportunity to really go out and have fun.Well, our Sims have finally been liberated. The highs and lows of dating are now a cab ride away. Excuse me, I have to get ready for a hot date.
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Summary: Sim-tastic
Review: I found this game very good, I only rated it 4 star because of the play downtown slow. The sims when you ask out on a date say no when the friendship is 80-100!
Still a good game
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Summary: Can't find love
Review: In the original Sims, getting married was as simple as talking a long time, complimenting, and then making sure they were comfortable and well-fed. Now my sims cannot convince another to marry them. It's so annoying! I am taking hot date off my computer to see if I can remember how easy it used to be. It's fun but so hard and complex. It depends on how much time you have to play with this game (averages between 4 and 24 hours for me, just kidding, but it is addictive).
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Summary: The best expansion pack- with some downs
Review: Wow. Finally, a downtown. And boy, is it huge. I'll let you in on a little secret that Maxis forgot to mention- even with my computer (256 MB Ram, Penitum II, brand new Radeon 3D accelerator) the downtown sticks a little bit. Sure, it's bearable and most people won't care, but it is a bit irritating. Oh well, there ain't no perfect game.
One more minor complaint (if that's what you'd like to call it) is that this expansion pack is smarter when it comes to making friends. Complimenting a person over and over will not make them your friend. The computer now can figure out that you're a fake when you do this. You have to mix it up, and it is much easier (and much more tempting I may add) to go too far too early. It takes time to make a friend. So, in that respect, the game makes it a bit harder. Now, out with the positive.
I loved being able to go downtown. If the carpool is there waiting for you to go to work, you can hop in a cab and be back several hours later- but the carpool is still there and the clock resets to the time you've left. Your energy meter goes down while you're gone, of course. However, it goes down a bit more slowly than it would if you were home. The social, fun, comfort, and room ratings go way up briefly when you first arrive downtown, but then go back down when you get home.
Now here's a feature I know you're gonna love if you have The Sims. Say you've got John and Harley, each living in a different house. You can go into Harley's game and go downtown, and you can see John downtown as well (even though you are not in his game). So John gets the same social benefit as Harley does, even if it isn't his game. Cool, huh?
Overall, the game is a great buy. It adds more gameplay rather than just a bunch of objects that you can download from other fan sites. The game is a MUST buy for any Sims owners. This is the one to get, if you can get just one. Second would be Livin' Large, and last, the party-pooper House Party. Happy dating!
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Summary: THE SIMS HOT DATE !
Review: i give it 5 stars! i first created a person called jessie. she set herself up with a blind date on the new computer but she went downtown before he arrived. she went to a casino and acted shy then cool. she met a nerd and they went to her house. her house had a party room with a playstation a tv a dancing floor a chair and a costume box. they are all new and improved. you can do many more things with objects like the telephone. you can order pizza, chinese food, hotdogs and hamburgers or packs of candy. if you go downtown the game is slow but on downtown there are new objects and restaurants and casinos and hotels. you can open one of those if you win the lottery or something. this game is excellent and kept me busy this cristmas holidays and i reccomend it a lot! (please excuse my spelling. grammar and capital letters) ps. THIS IS THE COOLEST GAME
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Summary: A kiss then a slap in the face? It must be real!
Review: One second you're headed for third base, the next you're getting slapped around. I have to tip my hat to the programmer, he definitely built in the true depths of the female persona. Anyone thinking they can wine and dine a townie into their bed had better study up. This game is a little harder than that!
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Summary: Don't listen to advertisements...
Review: I heard advertisements on this game and I thought, "Oh whoopee! Another Sims pack!" I just got it for Christmas and installed it on my computer after reinstalling the whole game. I lost all the cool houses I built and for what? This game really wasn't all that great as the advertisements boasted. I feel really rotten now that I uninstalled my game for this. I would like it fine if it didn't require a whole bunch of things to get it working right! (i.e. a sound card, Direct X 7, and the like) There is absolutely no sound, which makes me aggravated because playing just isn't all that great without sound! Sound is what makes it fun! And it's so hard to make friends! It takes the sims hours and hours just to make one friend! Before I installed this, I made friends with other sims no problem. It's too easy to make other sims angry! First off, I made a single woman and one of my bachelors came over for a visit. It was nine in the morning (Sim time, now) and it took until six at night for them to even become friends! At first, he liked being tickled and hearing jokes, but then he started getting angry! I don't suggest this. But there are pros, too. I don't want to smash everyone's hopes. I do like the fact that there are cooler objects. But in short, I am a little disappointed...
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Summary: THE BEST EXPANSION PACK EVER
Review: I got this game for Christmas and it is the best one yet! I have so much fun sending my sims downtown. I play this for hours and hours! Its so much fun! I reccomend this game to all the sim fans out there!
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Summary: wonderful if it worked
Review: Was very excited about this, love the Sims and can finally go shopping, eat ice cream and have fun. Well, until people inhabit down town. Then it freezes. just like real life. it freezes each time. If I'm playing on a computer I prefer fantasy that works.
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Summary: still working out the bugs
Review: The latest Sims expansion pack provides new (much-needed) variety in everyday social interactions. This feature makes gameplay more interesting, but it does seem to complicate making friends somewhat (your Sims are now touchier than they were before). The other major new feature, of course, is the downtown area, where your Sims can eat fancy (expensive) restaurant meals, shop for formalwear, swimsuits, and pjs, and buy gifts for other Sims, all of this for a pretty heavy price. However, this area is a great addition to The Sims, as you can finally get them out of the house and let them meet a variety of new potential friends (ie, career-boosters). I've had trouble, though, making friends downtown or getting any really exciting interactions going there; it seems I always end up just meeting people there and then getting to know them at home. Maxis' predesigned downtown areas are nice-looking, but my recommendation is that you design at least one lot on your own (no charges for building downtown!) and incorporate everything there-- all kinds of shopping, all kinds of dining, someplace where they can have a lot of fun quickly.
The new pack is definitely worth your money, mainly for the new variety it provides. The 125+ new objects are mainly available downtown, so don't expect a lot of new design opportunities at home. A few warnings: When I first began to play Hot Date, I had 128 RAM, the minimum amount Maxis recommends. With 128, gameplay could be sluggish if a lot was going on on-screen, particularly downtown. After a few days of playing like this, the additional 128 I had ordered finally arrived, and the game is much smoother with 256. The game isn't at all unplayable with 128, but do be aware that it's going to be painfully slow at times. My major complaint (and the reason for the 4 stars instead of 5) is that this game is prone to freezing and cutting off without reason, which happens enough (3 times in two hours, one night) to be incredibly annoying. Maxis, though, has been pretty good about putting patches on the Sims official site in the past, so let's hope to see corrective measures after Christmas.
All in all, though, don't pass this one up! Hot Date, even more than House Party, is the cure for any boredom in your Sims' lives; it's relief from their everyday routine. A lot of the new interactions are really amusing, and designing downtown areas (again, for free!) is going to be a big hit with all the Sims fans who love designing houses.
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