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Summary: A great expansion!
Review: This expansion has a lot of great new features, but does have some ups and downs. Some of the good things are the whole new downtown area. You get to buy new clothes, buy gifts for others, or even go out on a date with someone you either know or make friends with a person in town. There are a whole bunch of new items sorted into different categories (for example, in the lights, they are sorted into wall lights, floor lamps, etc.). There are a whole bunch of new interactions. When you kiss or hug someone, you can choose what kind of kiss or hug you want. That goes with just talking with them and other things.
This game does have a few downs to it. The game requires a lot of CPU power for the downtown area, since there are a lot of people and movement. In my opinion, it is harder to make friends, since you have daily and lifetime relationship bars instead of just having one. Despite these things, it is a great addition to The Sims.
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Summary: Great expansion with a few flaws
Review: This expansion pack makes by far the most radical changes to the game, not only with the new downtown area, but in terms of interactions with other people (loads of new choices) and building relationships. It's much more challenging, but if you were finding the game to be getting a bit old, Hot Date will liven it up very quickly. The downtown area is great and adds a whole new dimension to the game. However, the downtown area that is provided is kind of boring. You're better off building your own.There are a few flaws:
1) The game runs A LOT slower with Hot Date, especially when that second window pops up (like when the car pool shows up). My screen actually freezes for a few seconds before I the window actually appears. Plus it takes much longer to save the game. I have a pretty powerful machine, too (Pentium 4, 1.4GHz, 128 MB RAM), so less robust machines are really going to dog. 2) If you enjoy interactions with the kids (as I did), there are fewer now. All that's available most times is "Talk" and "Tickle", whereas before you were able to "Joke", "Entertain" and "Hug". The kids seem to be becoming more and more of an afterthought for Maxis, which is too bad because they made the game more fun. Kids can't go downtown, either. Hot Date takes some getting used to at first, but overall, I think it's a great expansion pack for an already incredible game.
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Summary: Take Your Sims on a Hot Date Today
Review: This is the first expansion pack for the Sims that I've gotten, and it's absolutely awesome. It allows you take your shopping, out to eat, and best of all, dating! They can date your other game characters or one of the many townies that float around downtown. It comes with a lot neat little things, i.e. a cuddle couch, and other things that help your Sims to get closer and fall in love. It also comes with 5 new types of characters who can enhance the game or make the game more difficult. The only problem is that it slows down the game a bit sometimes and can end up causing it to crash, but normally, it doesn't do this. The coolness outweighs the badness, so I definitely recommend this for any Sim freak out there!
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Summary: EH 2...maybe 3 Stars
Review: The new objects are pretty good. However, this expansion pack runs a bit slow and "going downtown" gets to be rather boring.
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Summary: WATCH THE SPARKS FLY OR SIZZLE!
Review: Now its time for your Sim to live on the "love" side.
Now you're cupid and you must help your sim get the guy or girl. This game is very interesting and tons of fun.Now you have new objects for your house and new pj's! THANK GOD!
This game will keep you smiling and laughing for a good coule of years. WORTH THE MONEY!
KIDS WILL LOVE!
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Summary: Near Perfect
Review: The Sims: Hot Date takes The Sims to a whole new level! It's what The Sims fans waited for so long-- to have a life outside the house! Yes, sims can't just stay in the house-- so with Hot Date, it adds a new downtown area, which you can build from the ground up. The downtown area can have a wide range of possibilities- from botiques, to convinince stores, to five star-restaurants to cheap diners- it's completely limitless! And it doesn't stop at that! The Sims: Hot Date adds new design and decor themes, new objects, new categorization (for more organized shopping), new interactions, relationships and a whole lot more! Now I can't wait for the next expansion pack to come! Who knows what Maxis would think about next?
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Summary: LOVE IT
Review: I love this game. I have to admit I was a little disappointed with House Party - although it was fun, it didn't really suit my "taste" of the Sims. And let's face it, the best thing about the Sims is the ability to personalize your game to suit your needs! I absolutely LOVE the new interactions - some of them are so adorable. It takes longer to make friends, so it will take longer to get your Sims promoted, but it is more realistic - have you ever made a lifelong friend in two hours?? Well, now you can't in the Sims either! I've read a couple of reviews that say they are disappointed in the amount of objects for the Sims home, but I don't think that's what this expansion is about. One warning: THIS IS A HUGE GAME. If you have all the expansion packs it will literally eat up space on your hard drive. This expansion pack creates the "townies" randomly and saves them on your hard drive, so be warned, if you have an older computer it will be slow as molasses (if it even fits at all!!) I had an older computer when I first got this game and it was agonizing - it took two hours for them to eat dinner. However, I just got a new pc, with more hard drive space, more RAM and more Ghz, so now my game is running pretty fast!! The Sims is what you make of it - if you want to leave the house and have some romance - grab hot date. If you want to get to the top of your career ladder as soon as possible and don't want to work at forming additional relationships, then don't get it, but personally, I think you would be missing out if you don't have this. DEFINATELY worth the 30 bucks.
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Summary: Even More Fun.
Review: This is the third expansion pack for The Sims game and I'm still hooked. This one has changed the format, and you can now take your Sim to a downtown area, which comes populated with approximately thirty Townies to pick up, seduce, hang out with, marry, and fight with, according to your proclivities. It's lots of fun. The downtown facilities as they come with the game are rather dreary, but I assume you're into destroying and rebuilding things, or you wouldn't be playing The Sims in the first place, so I don't consider that a problem. There are new skins, objects, walls, floors, the usual Maxis goodie grab-bag...as well as new interactions between the Sims. Making friends is different with this pack and initially I found it harder, but basically it comes down to a couple of things... don't get touchy-feely with Sims who don't like you, especially if you're stinky, and apart from talking, don't repeat the same action, for example, the same hug, more than a couple of times in the same time period. There's some new surprises, some new laughs, and new playthings. Be warned on a couple of points. If you have all the packs installed, the game devours RAM. Clunky old computers, beware. If you're used to playing without using the cheat code, it's tricky to learn skills, keep jobs to earn money, keep motives high, make and keep friends for promotions, and still find time to go downtown. And the game does have a few bugs. From what I can tell a fair number of the bugs are the result of some user-made modifications which are no longer compatible with this pack. I've been lucky, but I have had the 'cuddle-couch' one, where one Sim gets stuck in a booth or couch when they're cuddling. Unnerving, the first time that happened, I thought my Sim's date had died. And just when they were getting along so well, too! And the Townies do have a maddening habit of stopping dead in their tracks and getting in the way. Kinda like real people. But the problems aren't that big a deal, a few small annoyances in hours of play, and all in all, it's very well done.
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Summary: I love The Sims
Review: The Sims is the best game I have ever playd.. It`s so mutch fun. I love it!
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Summary: Fun....yet twice as challenging.
Review: I know that the idea behind the sims is to challenge you to make a family survive in a "real" world sort of situation. I loved the first sims, plus the two add-ons after that. With hot date, that sims are finally allowed to leave their houses and go downtown. They can meet many people in these downtown areas, at parks, resteraunts, and stores. The game is definately fun in the aspect that you can go downtown to talk and hang out, but that is where the challenge starts. In the previous sims games, as well as this one, relationships are needed to help you stay happy, move ahead in your job, etc. But in "hot date" the relationship aspect is twice as hard to build. You can fall in love with somone in the morning, and by the end of the day they wont even like you. That is the drawback of this game, plus friends are twice as hard to make, and take twice as long. While you can go on dates downtown, the people are a lot harder to get to know. It is definately more challenging than the first sims+adds, but for anyone looking for a leisurly gameplay, will not get it in "hot date". It is fun! But due to the fact that the stress level and difficulty of it is much higher, It lowers the fun.
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