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. It is also being remade as The Sims 3: Late Night

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 of Downtown. They can be married and made playable, but beware the Urban Renewal Loop.
 * Waiters and waitresses: Serve food in Downtown restaurants.
 * Minstrel: Strolls around expensive restaurants playing the guitar for diners.
 * Claire the Bear: Will come to Sims' houses and raid the trash can.

New Objects

 * The Niagara Love Tub: A heart-shaped hot tub that Sims can "play" in.
 * 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.
 * New Sub-Categories in Buy Mode: Redesigned buy mode for easier object cataloging.
 * New Auto-Lights: Rather than manually turning on/off lights, lights will automatically turn on/off depending on if there is a Sim in the room, removing the ability to turn on/off lights (with a few exceptions for certain lights).