The Sims 3: Showtime

The Sims 3: Showtime is the sixth expansion pack for The Sims 3. It will be released on March 6, 2012 in North America and on March 9, 2012 in Europe.

Description
''Live the rags to riches story with your Sims while connected to your friends! Experience the rise to stardom as your Sim performs on stage from one venue to the next. And for the first time, The Sims 3 Showtime introduces social features, including Passport, an all-new feature that lets you send your Sims to a friend’s game! There, your Sim can perform at your friend’s venue in front of your friend’s Sims! You will also be able to chat with friends and post messages and screenshots on your friends’ walls.''

Features

 * Your Sims can live the dream as Singers, Performers, Magicians, and DJs. Watch them rise to fame—or go down in flames as they perform for other Sims.
 * All-new social features: chat with friends, post to their walls, give status updates, and create friends lists.
 * Send your Sims to a friend’s game and have your friend’s Sim come to your game with the new Simport feature!
 * Create your own venue! Build a swanky concert hall, a massive stadium, or an indie club. How the stage is built will influence your Sims’ performance and career progression.
 * Get a bonus venue and stage for your Sims to perform in the Limited Edition!
 * New traits and Lifetime Wishes give players more tools to tell their stories the way they want to
 * A Whole New World: The new Expansion pack includes a brand new world called Starlight Shores, with new venues and new objects to hone Sims’ talent at and rise to success.
 * Book or Host Gigs: Using the innovative SimPort feature, send your Sims to a friend’s game or book friend’s Sims for a gig in their game.
 * Be Connected: Make new friends, connect, and share your stories and experiences without ever leaving the game. Using the new individual in-game news feeds and live updates, post your Sims’ successes, share gameplay techniques, create wishlists and gifts, search for new friends and share memories.
 * New Achievement System: Earn rewards for achieving goals and accomplishing special challenges that can be tracked and shared via in-game social wall posts. New achievements will be introduced on a regular basis.
 * SimFest: a giant talent show for acrobats, magicians and singers to compete against one another in town. For Sims who particularly love a challenge, a new dual interaction is available in-game for Sims to compete against one another outside of SimFest.
 * New neighborhood: Starlight Shores
 * New careers
 * Acrobat
 * By choosing a career as an acrobat, you can develop unique skills. Your Sim will begin his career in Acrobat as street mime and earn tips through small towers. As you progress, new items, locations and costumes will be released to help him make a real career as an artist!
 * When your Sims make a name for themselves, your Sims can showcase their talents in venues and perform new tricks such as flips or balance on a ball.
 * Finally, when it became a real star, your Sim will have the opportunity to perform in huge arenas where they can demonstrate with ease all his skills as an acrobat on a stage completely customized to his needs!
 * Magician
 * As a magician, your Sim begins their career on the streets performing magic tricks for tips. They’ll visit new venues and meet with the owners to book larger gigs and gain experience.
 * Magicians have unique social interactions that give them the ability to perform small-scale tricks on other Sims such as pulling a coin from an ear and making butterflies and doves magically appear.
 * As magicians level up, they acquire new objects that can be used on-stage. For some magical fun, your Sims can use the Box of Mystery to perform the “swords of destiny” by carefully placing knives through the box without stabbing the Sim inside. Beware the Box of Danger! If a Sim fails at correctly executing their tricks with this object, death may come calling.
 * Singer
 * Singers are unique in the game as they can accept paying jobs such as performing singing telegrams to gain experience.
 * Singing telegrams are also a social feature, and the types of jobs your Sims will receive will directly correlate to the happenings around town. If a Sim in town has just lost their job, cheer them up. If it’s a Sim’s birthday, sing them a song.
 * Like the other careers, singers can also take their talents to the public performing for tips in parks and local hang-outs. As singers progress, stage props, costumes and new songs will be unlocked to help them look the part and sing a variety of tunes. Singers will want to make it to the top to star in their very own big venue concert.


 * New skills
 * DJ booth


 * New death type
 * Death by Magic
 * For some magical fun, your Sims can use the Box of Mystery to perform the “swords of destiny” by carefully placing knives through the box without stabbing the Sim inside. Beware the Box of Danger! If a Sim fails at correctly executing their tricks with this object, death may come calling.

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Videos
Video:The Sims 3 Showtime Expansion? |The Sims 3: Showtime (leaked concept trailer) Video:THE SIMS 3 SHOWTIME trailer (EN)|The Sims 3: Showtime announcement trailer Video:Неудачные моменты выступлений в The Sims 3 Шоу-Бизнес|Showtime Career Video Video:Katy Perry Collector's Edition Trailer|Katy Perry Collecter's Edition Music Video

Music
This is a list of artists and their songs that are to be featured in Showtime:
 * Unconfirmed songs

Trivia

 * There is a live chat scheduled in January 26th, 2012.
 * There was a Closed Beta for the expansion pack from January 13th thru the 21st, 2012.
 * The Announcement Trailer for Showtime uses the original English version of Firework by Katy Perry.
 * There was a speculation that EA might have changed the release date of the expansion pack because on Amazon France, the Limited Edition of it and the bundle pack with The Sims 3 had their release date on March 27th, the same date a 6th rumored stuff pack might be released. It is false as Amazon France had changed the date to March 8.
 * The karaoke songs are the same as those heard in The Sims 2: Nightlife.