| The Sims 3 Ambitions | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 69
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows 7, Windows XP
Genre: simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 9879
Model: 19453
UPC: 014633194531
EAN: 0014633194531
ASIN: B003AMOK9M
Publication Date: June 1, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Choose between new fun and wacky jobs as a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter and more | | • | Experience all-new control over your Sims actions and choices while they are working | | • | Make important career decisions that affect your Sims' future and determine whether they will be good or evil, successful or a flop | | • | Your decisions will affect other Sims and your town as a whole, experience the power of your actions | | • | Earn Simoleans in all-new creative ways by inventing, sculpting, tattooing and more |
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Product Description
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Amazon.com Product Description
Your hand is steady as you fill in the deep red heart and start defining the clear letters. Your work is outstanding, a real art, but will it be enough for success? You notice the man flinch away as you start in on the arrow and finish up quickly without spoiling the overall effect. You're building a name for yourself while being paid to do what you love. Your tattoo parlor may not have been welcome at first, but it sure is making an impression on this small town. Explore the possibilities and take the path less traveled with new careers in The Sims 3: Ambitions.  | 
New fun and wacky jobs. View larger. | 
Your decisions will affect other Sims. View larger. | 
Experience all new control over your Sim. View larger. |
Synopsis
The Sims 3: Ambitions expansion pack offers plenty of new ways to make Simoleons while exploring your passion. Become a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter and more as you explore all of the opportunities for your Sim. Delve into every detail of your Sim's lives as you control their actions and interactions with exciting new results. Just remember, every action has a consequence and your decisions will determine whether your Sims turns out to be successful entrepreneurs or huge failures. Watch as your career choices change the town and other Sims. Direct your Sim to save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a billionaire high-tech inventor or barely make a living as a mad scientist. Whatever you choose, just remember — their future is entirely in your hands. Features: Choose between new fun and wacky jobs as a firefighter, private investigator, doctor, ghost hunter and more Experience all-new control over your Sims actions and choices while they are working Make important career decisions that affect your Sims' future and determine whether they will be good or evil, successful or a flop Your decisions will affect other Sims and your town as a whole, experience the power of your actions Earn Simoleans in all-new creative ways by inventing, sculpting, tattooing and more |
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 30
 After Day One of Game-Play June 2, 2010
Stacey L. Imhof (Edgewater Park, NJ USA)
72 out of 77 found this review helpful
I have been playing Sims since The Sims 2 was released and I haven't felt much excitement playing The Sims 3 until I bought a copy of The Sims 3: Ambitions. I, too, became quickly bored with World Adventures, and was hoping this new expansion was a bit more substantial than the last. When I was through with my first 8-hour game-play session with Ambitions, I was left with a new-found love of the Sims and also some new gripes.
First, I must say that I loved going through the Stylist Profession and liked that I did not complete the whole entire profession in one gaming binge. I enjoyed being actively involved in my Sims' career path and I enjoyed making Sims over. I personally have a lot of custom content installed and the residents of my town ended up getting much-needed styling. The most valuable new addition in this profession was the new hair options for men. (Previously, I repeatedly used the same hairstyle for many male Sims, as I hated all the other styles and custom hair for men is not abundantly available.) There are several new hair options for female Sims as well, but I don't use them since I have so many custom options that are much more attractive. While you do only receive 2-3 job opportunities per work day as a stylist, you can go back to the salon once you complete those opportunities and continue to style other Sims to gain job experience, and you can also buy a drafting table for your Sim to research new design ideas and further increase your job experience, which allows you to be promoted.
Active participation in professions is very time consuming, which I love and am annoyed by at the same time. Like the reviewer before me stated, if you have multiple Sims in your household, there isn't really much time in a day to be actively involved in their lives when you are so busy with your Sim with an active profession. I found myself only tending to my other Sims' needs when my Stylist Sim had a day off. If there is a way to send your Sim to their Ambitions profession and turn off the active involvement for a period of time, I have not found it yet, and it's been impossible for me to fulfill opportunities for other Sims in the household when my one professional Sim is always busy. This is my biggest gripe about Ambitions so far, but compared to World Adventures and The Sims 3 base game, this expansion is quite impressive.
I also added a SimBot to my household. I did not have an issue with my SimBot breaking things- in fact, she repairs everything that breaks and came to my household with a good amount of Handiness skill. This SimBot is a robot that you can control just like any other Sim, but the robot has different and interesting needs.
Another thing I love about this new expansion pack is that it contains elements of Open for Business from The Sims 2. For example, my child Sim can make numerous baked goods using his toy oven and sell them at a newly-purchasable baked good stand in front of the house, and anything your Sim creates can be sold for good money (depending on your skill level) at the consignment shop. You can also choose to be self-employed and make good money fishing, farming, sculpting, painting, and more, and I really enjoy the options that this new expansion pack allows for.
Overall:
This is definitely a major improvement over World Adventures, and I think this new expansion pack allows for a more active and engaging gaming experience, which I personally like, aside from the fact that I am alienating my other Sims. I think this EP was worth the money because of how it changes game-play and doesn't just add new items, interactions, and wishes as some other EPs have done. I can't wait to explore more professions, and hopefully there will be more available to us all in the future. Happy Simming!
very creative August 23, 2010
Jennifer Martino (Gardner, MA)
I got this after reading a few reviews online. Of course there are more reviews for the other expansion pak but I wanted this one more than other one. It's always good in a game to have new stuff to do because playing with the sims for awhile you tend to get bored of all the same things. I don't always buy all the expansion paks and I swear up and down that this time I would wait till they put out seasons and pets but I broke down and bought this one anyways.
Now you can either work as one of the many new jobs that they have in the game or you can be self employed in something that you have high scores in. It is really cool and with the multiple of sims characters you make each other very different and unique. Plus not only does it have new jobs but also new rewards to get as well as special things for careers, bonus' like you got in the sims 2 game.
If you love the sims, you should get this expansion pak. One good thing, time slows down thanks to this one. Before time was too fast, now you get more time to spend with your sims and the time is more normal. Like the hour lasts longer than it did before. Always good!
LOVE IT!!! Lots of fun and fast! August 24, 2010
K. Hunsaker (Jerome, ID USA)
I love Sims, and sims 3 is great! Worth the money and you can buy it cheap on amazon
They Did It Again! August 25, 2010
Lanette
EA has done it again! They have released the second successful expansion pack for the popular PC game, The Sims 3. With each expansion pack, the creators of The Sims show a little more creativity. With the previous expansion, World Adventures, your sims could travel the world in three select locations- Egypt, China and France. This expansion is no exception. Now, as the player, you have the ability to control what your sims do at work. Not only that, but there are many more career opportunities available than ever before! I have played this expansion several times because there are so many new aspects of the game to explore. I would highly recommend this expansion to anyone who is interested in The Sims.
The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack August 29, 2010
B. Botka
I have been a big fan of The Sims since the game first started. The Sims 3 is fantastic. This latest expansion pack,Ambitions, is no disappointment. I like the new careers and the items that come with it. Looking forward to the next one.
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