The Sims 3: Ambitions

The Sims 3: Ambitions (Also known as The Sims 3: Hobbies and Professions before the offical announcement), is an expansion pack for The Sims 3 and is tentatively set to be released on June 1st, 2010. It appears to be a spiritual remake of The Sims 2: Open for Business, but with added activities. Ambitions also appears to be somewhat related to The Sims 2: Freetime, as well.

EA Games confirmed Ambitions on March 4th, 2010.

Description
Imagine a world where you can make your Sim anything they want to be. Widen your Sim's horizons with a bunch of killer career opportunities. With The Sims 3: Ambitions, decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or cause loads of mischief among their neighbors. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change your town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or roughing up a suspect for information? Will they walk the runways as a fashion diva with exhilarating and swanky style? Their future is entirely in your hands!

Features

 * New creature: Servo. Servos have been seen in images and are built by Sims who have inventing skills.
 * New mode: Renovation Mode is a variation of Build and Buy Modes and used by the architect to remodel for clients
 * 3 new skills:
 * Sculpting: Sims can create sculptures out of ice, metal, clay and wood whilst another Sim poses for them. (Might have been taken out of The Sims: Bustin' Out)
 * Inventing: There seems to be a wide variety of inventions. Servos are back, along with what appears to be a time machine in the trailer. Sims get scraps for inventions from scrapyards, a new type of lot, or by blowing things up.
 * Tattooing: Players are taken to the tattoo editor where they can choose tattoos with up to five layers, modify their colors, change the size, modify the opacity, and select where to place it: upper, lower, or full back, neck, ankle, chest, stomach, wrist, shoulder, bicep, or forearm.


 * Control Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job. It is rumored that rabbit holes will disappear and all buildings can be seen.
 * According to a member of The Sims 3 staff, Sims will even be able to manage their careers to an extent while you are not controlling them.


 * On-the-job choices now change the town and affect other Sims as well. Players modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.


 * 9 new jobs: architect, doctor, firefighter, ghosthunter, inventor, private investigator, sculptor, stylist, and tattoo artist.


 * Earthquakes are set to appear in this game


 * The town seen in the video trailer is a part of Riverview, just next to the bar, but it's possible that a new town can appear due to the fact that in one of the screenshots below shows a bridge not found in Riverview.


 * New objects (ex. tattoo parlor, Time Machine, trampolines, motorbikes, and other unconfirmed things)

Videos
Video:The Sims 3 Ambitions Trailer