Riverview

Riverview is a free downloadable town offered from The Sims 3 store. The town is being developed by Visceral Games (Formerly known as EA Redwood Shores) due to the closing of EA Black Box. As The Sims 3 was pirated online before it's official release (which is unable to download Riverview from the official website), Riverview became an advertising focus of the game's official release.

Description:


 * Small town with an idyllic countryside setting. It’s dotted with farms, beautiful pastures and nestled by a winding river. This sleepy little town comes with an entirely new set of inhabitants with secrets for your Sims to uncover.


 * The Town's relief map seems to be inspired from Paris in France with the difference that Riverview is more rural that the latter.


 * Completely new neighborhood with 60+ complete new NPC's. There will also be a few "old" faces from The Sims 2 in Riverview.



The Story

 * "Along the banks of the Simomon River lies the sleepy town of Riverview. Many have moved to this serene little town to escape the clamor of city life. Will the current residents let the newcomers in on the town’s little secrets or will they do their best to keep their dirt from being unearthed?"

The Families
In a recent video uploaded by The Sims, the official channel of the Sims, they showed a preview of Riverview with some or possibly all of the families in Riverview. It starts with a short description of Riverview and goes on to show 6 main families. One family is not named, but shows ghosts in their house. The other main families along with the questions that come with them:

 Notice: All informations (texts, pictures) are disclosed from the Riverview's official video and SimGuruRain Blog from thesims3.com.

 The Riverview's Families :

A frightened man and a frightened woman are shown surrounded by two ghosts, one a child and the other a man. The child is playing with a teddy bear.
 * The Jones Family :  Who are these uninvited house guests? 
 * Hannah Jones and her husband, Aiden, recently moved into the Remington house (you know, the scary house on the hill from many a dark tale). The previous occupants, Hanna’s cousins, were victims of a long string of unfortunate events, leaving Hanna the only living relative to inherit the beautiful, albeit strangely built, mansion.  One of the Jones’s biggest problems is that the previous occupants are still busy occupying!


 * Don Lotario : "THE RETURNS!"


 * The Bagley Family:  What will Ma Bagley and her broods do next? 
 * Ma Bagley appears to have the insane or evil trait, because her evil cackle. She is shown with her two children.

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 * The Lothario Family : And just who is this town's newest Casanova?
 * Don Lothario from Pleasantview featured in The Sims 2 is shown. From his entrance it seems that he teleported into Riverview.

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 * The Newbie Family : Robert and Mags Newbie moved to Riverview along with their teenage son, Bob. Bob had a hard time adjusting to the move, but he’s found a new best friend to occupy his time.''
 * The Newbie Family appears with Mags and Robert Newbie like adults and Bob, a teen.


 * The Simovitch Family: Will young Betty find her true love?
 * Betty is shown crying as she watches a man and a woman kiss. It has been confirmed that Betty from Riverview is Betty Newbie as a teen.

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 * The Broke Family:The Broke family has their roots in the more rustic area of town.

The Two Lin Sister are Stubborn and decided after to have inherited their parents'old house, remodeling their own half of the house.
 * The Lin Family: The Lin sisters don’t get along and are both very stubborn. When they inherited their parents’ old house, the only thing they could agree on is that they would each get their own half. They went about remodeling their halves without consulting each other which resulted in quite an… aesthetically interesting design.


 * The Shallow Family: The cold and callous Shallow family may be pleasing to the eye, but I don’t know if there is a house big enough to actually hold all of their egos.


 * The Grisby Family: The Grisby’s, on the other hand, are kind, loving and happy, but tend to be the butt of everyone’s jokes due to their rather “unique” assets.

The Shallow Family and The Grisby Family live next door to each other, but couldn’t be more different.

Who is Hunter hiding from?
 * The Cottoneye Family :
 * Hunter is shown in a military outfit in military-type surroundings. From the way he acts it seems he has the paranoid trait. There's a theory that he could be General Buzz Grunt from Strangetown in the Sims 2.

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 * Lucky Perkins: What's wrong with Lucky's plumbing? it appears as though Lucky is a leprechaun.
 * Lucky is shown in a bath tub outside of a rural setting.

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 People with families names unknown : 

Video(s)
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Galleries
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