The Sims: Vacation



The Sims Vacation, titled The Sims On Holiday in the UK, is the fourth expansion pack for The Sims. The game associates a Holiday Island with neighbourhoods and families (or even single Sims) can book vacations there over the phone.

Features

 * New places: Adds 3 new environments for your Sims to go on vacation. Stay in hotel, or rent a tent or igloo!
 * New objects: All new vacation-related items including snowmen kits, sandcastle kits, carnival games, tents and igloos. Sims are also allowed to buy souvenirs and place these in curio shelves when they return home!
 * New interactions: Play fishing, archery, snowboarding and beach volleyball while on vacation!
 * New NPCs: A shark at the beach, a Robin Hood-like man at the forest, and a yeti at the island summit, they are all mascots of the vacation paradise to keep you happy! Vacation Director will also make sure your children are well-behaved, or you will have to leave.

Details

 * Developer(s)
 * Maxis
 * Publisher(s)
 * Electronic Arts
 * Designer(s)
 * Will Wright
 * Release Date(s)
 * March 25, 2002
 * Genre(s)
 * God Game
 * Life Simulation game
 * Mode(s)
 * Single Player
 * Rating(s)
 * ESRB: Teen
 * PEGI: 12+
 * OFLC: M
 * Platform(s)
 * Microsoft Windows
 * Mac OS X
 * Media
 * 1 CD
 * System Requirements
 * Microsoft Windows
 * Windows 95 and up, 233MHz Pentium II or faster, 64 MB RAM, 4x or faster CD-ROM drive, DirectX 6.0-compatible sound card and graphics card (card must have 2 MB onboard memory and able to display at 800x600 with 16-bit color)
 * Linux
 * Linux Kernel 2.2 or higher, Glibc 2.1.3 or higher, XFree86 4.0 or higher or equivalent, 350Mhz Celeron/Pentium II/Duron/Athlon or faster or equivalent, 64Mb of ram, 128 recommended, sound card supporting OSS or ALSA, video card capable of 16 bit color and 800x600 resolution, nvidia GeForce GPU recommended with 16mb of video ram. (NOTE: This is the ported Linux version from TransGaming)
 * Apple Macintosh
 * Mac OS X 10.0.3 or later -or- Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x with CarbonLib 1.2.5 or later, 233 MHz or faster PowerPC G3 or G4, 64 MB RAM (Mac OS 8/9) or 128 MB RAM (Mac OS X), G3/333 MHz recommended; 128 MB of RAM
 * Input(s)
 * Mouse
 * Keyboard