The Sims Vacation Expansion Pack – PC
- Welcome to Vacation Island — a fully-customizable island resort with a wide range of activities! Use these activities to make this a memorable vacation for you and your Sims!
- Hit the beach for a volleyball game, go fishing, have a snowball fight and more — fun for Sims of all ages
- While you’re building sandcastles and snowmen, your interactions will decide what happens next, and how well the trip goes
- You’ve also got to watch out for pickpockets, crazy kids, and other sudden surprises that can ruin a vacation
- Bring home the ultimate in vacation souvenirs — from a stuffed penguin to a crystal skull — to make this a vacation you’ll never forget!
Immerse yourself in a fully customizable luxury island destination that delivers a wide range of beach, snow, and camping activities for your Sims holiday.Take your Sims where they’ve never been before: on a family vacation. Whether they’ve been working hard or livin’ large, going downtown or partying down, your Sims deserve a break. From a sun-drenched beach to a snow-filled wonderland to a forest campground, Vacation Island offers awide range of fun new activities for your Sims. Take a spin on
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The Best Expansion Pack Yet!,
I sound like a broken record but The Sims: Vacation is absolutely the best expansion pack Maxis has produced yet.
I’ve made four pages of notes so let’s get started with the new objects available in Buy Mode:
* New Pool Chairs and patio table
* “Critter Creek” Lounger (for the lodge)
* Beach bench and picnic table (table looks like it’s been carved with those “I love so-and-so” and “Joe was here” type of messages)
* Sew Doe Sofa
* The NoTell Motel Bed (lime green comforter with yellow headboard)
* Lodge-Type Bed with logs (very cool!)
* Souvenir Storage System
* Curio Cabinet
* Wall Cabinet
* Tree Trunk Coffee Table (extremely neat!)
* Polar Bear Rug
* Floral Fencing
* Rock Fence
* New Clock Post
* Sim Mars Video Game
* ST2 – Barky’s Revenge Video Game
* Blue Barbecue Grill
* New Buffet Table
* Shower Tub Aqua-Fluvium
* Redwood Hot Tub
* Octane Drain Camp Lantern
* Midnight Bison Table Lamp
* Volleyball Court
* Pool Slide
* New Mirrors
* Water Lilies, Cattails, Tumbleweed and other plants
* New Trees
* Moderne Decko Arch
* Deluxe Awning
* New Staircases
* New Fireplaces (Stone-looking, very fancy)
* New Windows (All Kinds)
* New Doors
* New Floors and Walls
There are also new objects only available on Vacation Island:
* Frost Fortress for Snowball Fights
* Water Balloon Fortress
* Alpine Snow Slide (The Sims love this!)
* Igloo You Can Rent for the Night
* Dart Game With Balloons
* Archery
* Strength O’Meter
* Chicken Toss Game
* Bust-A-Clown (Water Game where Sims shoot water into a clown’s mouth to make his head explode)
* Whack-a-Will
* Carnival Prize Booth to Redeem the Tokens You Win at Games for Prizes
* Super Pipe for Snowboarding (The Sims love this too!)
* Eco-Dependency Recliner (The description says two Sims sit in these side-by-side chairs and one’s mood rubs off on the other)
There’s also a clothing rack just for kids so now your Sim kids can buy bathing suits, pajamas, etc. like the adults do in downtown. Also, kids and adults can purchase Winterwear so they won’t be cold in the mountains.
The Vacation Director also tells you that if you go to the pool, for example, in your winterwear or if you go to the colder climates in your swimsuit that you will be “VERY uncomfortable.”
If you want to be completely surprised by Vacation, you probably don’t want to read the rest of this review. Spoiler Alert!
When your Sims are ready to redeem their tokens for prizes, they can choose from a wooden squirrel, lava idol, stuffed penguin, coconut monkey, quartz skull, stuffed guinea pig, chicken cookie jar or a baby doll. Each one requires a certain amount of tokens that you have to win by playing the various games on Vacation Island.
When you go to lots that have ducks on the water, the ducks actually move and quack.
Depending on what lot you’re on (such as snow or beach), the rental shack has different functions. For instance, you can’t rent a sandcastle kit when you’re staying on a lot that has snow. Here are the various things you can rent: picnic basket, metal detector, bow and arrow, fishing pole, tent (for the night), igloo (for the night), snowman kit, sandcastle kit and a bow and arrow for archery.
The Sims love to fish. So far, I’ve seen them catch some sort of pond grass goo, fish (they throw them back) and a boot.
One of my Sims used a metal detector. He found money, an arrowhead and also a boot. He even brought the boot home and put it right on the kitchen table!
Your Sims can “play” in both the tents and igloos.
There are also new kid interactions. What I’ve discovered so far is rough house (the two Sims look like they’re throwing play punches), kids can do a handstand, crazy dance and play, rock, paper, scissors. These are just the ones I’ve seen so far but Maxis said there are tons of new kid interactions.
The manual also states to look out for the “flying hug.” My Sims haven’t done that yet but it’s worth mentioning.
Also, and this is so cute, when my Sim adult and her son were making a snowman, they got all three pieces of the snowman put together (his body). Then the boy jumped into his mother’s arms and she held him close to the snowman’s face so he could put on the snowman’s eyes, mouth, nose, scarf and hat.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that when your Sims build a snowman, they have different hats. Some Sims will put a baseball cap on the snowman, others might put a straw hat. I’ve seen three different hats so far.
I haven’t had any bugs or other problems. It takes a bit longer to load with all of the previous expansion packs installed. I have 128 megs of RAM and don’t have any issues with the game running slowly. I have heard of others who have a lot more memory who also…
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When a family goes on vacation, unlike Downtown, all members are controllable. This is good. However, if a Sim invites a non-family Sim on vacation, the guest is not controllable. Unfortunately, the guests are too stupid to take showers or use the bathroom and since you can’t tell them to, they become miserable. This is bad. Also comical. They’ll pee themselves and then hop into bed with their host. So far this is the only gripe that I have. I do have to say I’m not enchanted with the characters who were put in to entertain the kids, although the upside there is that occasionally the kids kick them in the shins.
I had no trouble either installing or running this pack, but you’d be well-advised to heed the installation guide and close any open programs, and do a scan disk and defrag before installing, this game is very demanding of your computer. But whereas the last Sims expansion pack, Hot Date, seemed to make interactions cumbersome and unbalanced at times, this one is lithe and pleasant to play, and I’m loving it.
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