The Sims 3: Pets

The Sims 3: Pets is the 5th expansion pack for The Sims 3. A trailer was leaked at the same time as the The Sims 3: Generations one. An official trailer has since been released, announcing the game. As with other expansion packs, there was a 'hint' in the Generations expansion pack, being a paw print on the back of any baby/toddler magical gnomes.

The game sees a return of pets from The Sims 2. Cats and dogs have returned, along with a brand new animal: horses. There are also snakes, turtles, birds, rodents, and lizards in the PC version.

This is the first time that games or expansions in two different "generations" of The Sims series will have the same title.

The PC version is bundled in a package with the base game as The Sims 3 Plus Pets.

A playable demo for Create a Pet was released on September 27th 2011 via Origin.

Description
"Bring excitement and surprise into your Sims' lives with pets! Create the perfect (or imperfect) pets for your Sims, from fierce guard dogs to destructive kittens to trusty horses and more as you determine not only how your Sims' pets look but their personality traits as well. With a variety of new activities and social interactions, take direct control of your Sims' pets and explore new ways to mess with their lives. Give your Sims a new member of their household and discover all-new ways to play with life!"

Features

 * More pets means more fun! Create a wide variety of unique dogs, cats, and—for the first time ever—horses! Think your Sim has what it takes to tame a wild horse?
 * Build a collection of Lizards, Turtles, Snakes, and Birds!
 * New NPC animals: deer, raccoons and wild horses.
 * The player has full control of a Sim's pet to chase, dig, tackle and more.
 * Life stages for pets are: Puppy/Kitten/Foal, Adult, and Elder
 * Pets can learn skills. Cats and dogs can learn to hunt, dogs can learn to locate collectibles and fetch Sims a date, and horses can learn racing and jumping.
 * Exclusive Limited Edition content! Only in The Sims 3 Pets Limited Edition for PC/Mac will you receive a pet store filled with one-of-a-kind objects.
 * The player is able to adopt a horse and can be transported around town on the horse.
 * The player can train a horse to be a race horse.
 * There are 46 cat breeds, 72 big dog breeds, 46 small dog breeds and 30 horse breeds. Players may have a poodle with short hair, or also have a Poodle with Dalmatian spots.
 * The player not only gets to choose the dominant pattern, but he or she also gets to pick an accessory pattern and both can be colored in whatever way you want. In horses, the mane and tail color are independent of the main color of the horse.
 * New pet motives, Destruction for Dogs, Scratch for Cats, Exercise and Thirst for Horses.
 * The player can add colorful markings on their fur and slide them around wherever they want on their Sims' pets bodies! Markings are also in layers and can be placed in any order.
 * Sims can also take in stray pets.
 * Pets have their own wishes and lifetime rewards.
 * The player can assign features and traits to pets.
 * Pets can meet, fall in love and reproduce, and have family trees.
 * Pets have inherited genetics.
 * New Small pets
 * New skill for Sims: Riding.
 * New music styles are:
 * Country
 * R&B
 * Songwriter
 * New traits for Sims are:
 * Equestrian
 * Animal Lover
 * Dog Person
 * Cat Person
 * New Lifetime Wishes for Sims are:
 * Ark Builder
 * The Zoologist
 * Animal Rescuer
 * The Jockey
 * Fairytale Finder
 * Canine Companion
 * Cat Herder
 * New Multi-Rabbitholes: The Diner and the Supermarket, the Science lab and the Hospital, and more!
 * An ice cream truck, similar to the food truck except it sells ice cream and does not require a parking spot.
 * The Collections from The Sims 2 return, but players will have to categorize Buy and Build mode objects themselves.
 * New shopping lists! In the grocery stores, players may now create, save, view, and complete their own shopping list of items within the rabbithole's shopping menu!
 * Sims now have the option to cook Gourmet food for their pets if they click on the refrigerator or the cooking oven. The food can be Duck, Chicken, Steak gourmet food. The pets will get a positive moodlet if they eat it. Gourmet Kitty, Gourmet Pooch or Gourmet Horsie.

Pet trait
Traits are also featured for pets just like Sims. There are total of 30 pet traits. Each pet can have three traits. More traits can be "trained" by reinforcing certain behaviors. Some traits are unique to one species, and some can be for any species. There are also some traits that will conflict with one another, such as Nimble and Hates to Jump.

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Music
In addition to licensed music, the expansion will feature an orchestral score. Unlike the base game and preceding expansion packs that were composed by Steve Jablonsky, the score for Pets is composed by Christopher Lennertz. The orchestral score is available as a download from the iTunes Store.

This is a list of artists and their songs that are to be featured in Pets:

Trailers and videos
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Trivia

 * This is the first game in The Sims 3 series that's soundtrack will not be composed by or include Steve Jablonsky. He is instead replaced by composer Christopher Lennertz, who has previously worked on the Mass Effect soundtrack..
 * The Sims 3: Pets shares a very similar melody theme with other games such as the base game, University, Open for Business, The Sims 2: Pets, The Sims 2: FreeTime and Late Night.
 * It is interesting to note that in the trailer of this game, the Grim Reaper can be seen riding a horse into a portal. This fact is backed up in that a dialog box describing the Grim Reaper in The Sims 2 mentions that he is a horse lover.