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Summary: WICKED FUN STUFF!
Review: This is the best game Maxis has come out with! I will sooooooo buy it. Thanks 4 the Sims
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Summary: More Fun Squeezed From the Sims
Review: I was excited about "Hot Date" because of the ability to take others to a new downtown area. I soon found out, however, that this aspect of the game is rather disappointing. So far, the downtown area has been slow-moving, with all the people walking around. And eating at a restaurant takes HOURS.What's worth the extra money is mostly the new social interactions. For instance, there are several different types of kissing: suave, romantic, passionate, peck, on cheek, etc., as well as different ways to breag: boasting, flexing, and primping. You can hug someone intimately, friendly, or leap into their arms. Some of the actions are downright funny to watch. Remember how you could meet someone, make friends with them, fall in love, and end up with a passionate kiss while your spouse was in the other room - all in one day? Well, socializing has become a little more complex in this game. It's been harder for me to make friends as quickly as before, partly because the Sim neighbors don't seem to be as "easy" as before. But this makes it a bit more challenging, in a good way. Another nice part of the expansion pack is the new objects, walls, and floors. Also new is the way objects are organized. Now, you can click on "chairs," and then choose if you want dining chairs, sofas, loungers, or other subcategories. I would recommend buying Hot Date, even if the downtown area is a bit disappointing.
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Summary: I love sim games, but I have a question.
Review: I am a big fan of the sim games an expansions, but the new one out (Hot Date) is really hard to find on shelves in stores. some people are telling me to order online, but i dont want to wait that long; should i go to the store and keep looking for a game or should i just order it online and pay the extra money?
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Summary: The best expansion pack yet!
Review: If you are a fan of the Sims game, this is for you.Creating a downtown area is fun because you have an unlimited budget. Plus the buy icons have been organized into catagories to make it easier to find what your looking for. There are new skins and heads (true, you can download clothes and items off the internet but they're never as good as the ones included in the games.)I would say it's the best of the three expansion pack since it add a new element (leaving the home.) Hopefully in the expanisons packs to come, will be able to go to more places (maybe to work?) If you don't raise your expectations extreamly high, then you definetly wouln't be dissapointed.
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Summary: They've done it agian!
Review: Have a whole new level of SIM relationships by making downtown! Biuld a really expensive resturant or a cheap eatz place. Some sime options may not be to apropriot for kids. It's extremly fun to try and go out with your so called dream date. Buy clothing, flowers chocolates and food. It's a whole completly diffrent world! Try it this game rocks! It's the best one yet!
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Summary: The Truth Behind Hot Date ...
Review: I'd like to take this opportunity to say "thank you" to Maxis ... For turning me into a slacker. Thanks to you, I can't hold a job, keep friends in my own neighborhood, and after spending hours designing my dream house, I only use it to sleep and shower in! And why? Because I'm ADDICTED to Downtown! :) "Hot Date" is absolutely the best concept for an add-on yet, and it can only get better from here ... Especially gratifying as well, since the recent cancellation of the "Simsville" game that many of us were looking forward to. But now you can get your random-interaction fix AND browse for some groovy threads, have a drink, and watch the general mayhem of Townies on a mission ... Complaints? I only wish that there were more free lots for development. You can always bulldoze a Maxis-designed lot, but having more than one vacant space would have been nice. The new Downtown Exchange at TheSims.com is an excellent idea though, perfectly supplementing the Sims Exchange already in place. And I like all the new interactions available, but I can't understand why other Sims are allowed to tease *you* and you aren't given the option to tease back. Come on now, what says "hi, I'd like to get to know you" better than sneaking up on a Sim and scaring the bejesus out of them? :) All in all this is a great add-on that's not to be missed. More walls and floors, lots of new objects, and tons of interactions (including new gestures and movements) make this an essential addition to The Sims collection. If my Sims had thumbs, they'd be way up!
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Summary: Only if you have a fast computer
Review: What's different between this and the other expansion packs? Well, there are many new objects, wallpapers, floors and build tools like fences and windows. Of course, the biggest difference is that this introduces a whole new element of gameplay to the Sims, with the downtown area. Downtown, Sims can shop for clothes, read magazines, swim, buy hamburgers and icecreams. Most of all, though, they can go on dates and meet people. Downtown, you can only control one Sim at a time, and they have to keep both themselves and their date happy. This is a lot more difficult than it sounds! The relationships with Sims have changed in other ways, too. There are now two relationship bars - short-term and long-term. It's much more difficult to get Sims to fall in love, and they're a lot more temperamental than they used to be! Downtown is very, very expensive. For a meal that would cost the Sims $20 at home, it costs them $120 dollars downtown. Everything costs money, and usually a lot of it. You'd better have very rich Sims, (...). Performance-wise, on my computer it is very poor. I've got a Pentium III, running Windows ME with 128MB of RAM, and this is one REALLY slow game. It takes about the same amount of time to load the game up, but there are unfortunately other parts where the game has really slowed for me. When cars arrive, my computer used to just slow down a little. Now the screen freezes for 20 - 40 seconds. The downtown area takes a really long time to load (especially the first time), and going from shop to shop also takes a long time. Would I recommend it? If you have a slow computer, you'll have to be very patient while playing the game. If you have a really slow computer, forget it. If your computer is fast, buy this right now!
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Summary: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: tHIS EXPANSION PACK IS THE BEST EVER! SURE ITS SLOW BUT HEY, YOU SHOULD EXPECT THAT FROM ALL THE OTHER FILES U'VE GOT ON THERE. THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS BRILLIANT. HAVE YOU EVER GOT BORED WITH THE OTHER EXPANSION PACKS? I SURE DID, DOING THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT WITH THIS ONE U SURE NEED SOME HELP IF U FIND THIS BORING FAST!
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Summary: Almost 5 stars
Review: First of all, what's with the 5-star reviews of games from people who haven't even played them?!? That being said, this is the best Sims expansion. There are a lot more interactions and the relationship scores have been changed so that it takes more time (and strategy) to get one of the other characters to fall in love with you. The downtown areas are OK, but fortunately, better ones are available by either building your own or downloading others from the internet. One word of caution -- this expansion is a bit of a "memory hog" -- I have a "well-stocked" computer and it still slows down -- although I have not had the significant performance problems that some other people have reported. If you have the system resources, buy it and enjoy it!
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Summary: Greatest Expansion Pack Yet!
Review: As most people have heard, this expansion pack adds like 40+ new interactions, a downtown area you can haev your Sims go to, and there is now a life time friend score and a day-to-day score, so it's a little easier to make new friends and easier to keep the good ones (without haveing to call them every other day). When you install the game and play it for the first time - Maxis has made a downtown area for all the eighborhoods, however you can edit them, ore rebuild new ones. Some things I 've learned - 1) Always go downtown when you are high on energy but not before work - when you get back from downtown you enter your house at the same time you left and a lot of times you are really low on energy, 2) When building a restaurant make sure to leave A LOT of room between tables - beacuse there are a lot of new characters to fill the downtown area - sometimes they decide to stand in the middle of the restaurant and you cannot get seated. 3) While you are talking with someone and they do not like what you are talking about - click on your Sim and select "Change Topic" so you stop offending the other Sim (or not). Overall an excellent buy - well worth the money!
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