The Sims: Hot Date

The Sims: Hot Date, released on November 14, 2001, is the third expansion pack for The Sims. Its theme and many of its features, including the addition of a Downtown sub-neighbourhood, were used again in Nightlife, the 2005 remake of Hot Date and the second expansion pack for the sequel game The Sims 2.

New Neighborhood

 * Downtown: Take your Sims to go there for a hot date! Or simply buy presents for your loved ones.

New NPCs

 * Miss Crumplebottom: This old woman will poke at you and smack you with her purse when you do romantic interactions in Downtown, "Why don't you get a room?"
 * Townies: Non-playable residents, but you can marry Townies and than they will be PCs
 * Waiters and waitresses: Serve food in downtown.
 * Guitar player
 * Claire the Bear: Will come to your house and raid your trash can.

New Objects

 * Love tub
 * Fish pond
 * Cuddle Couch

Other New Features

 * New interactions: Adds more than 40 new interactions to make your date better. Also gives you more options when using certain objects.
 * New interests: Adds seven new interests; Exercise, Food, Parties, Style, Hollywood, Technology, and Romance.
 * New Soundtrack Music: Listen to romantic jazz songs composed by saxophonist Marc Russo.