The Sims 3: World Adventures

Official Description
The Adventure is near...

Take your Sims on the adventure of their lives with The Sims 3 World Adventures. Guide your Sims to acclaimed fortune—or potential doom. Take your Sims to exotic destinations to hunt for hidden treasures. Uncover new skills, experience new personality traits and garner rewards, if your Sims succeed. Explore ancient tombs in the pyramids of Egypt, master martial arts in the Far East, and discover rich culture and famous landmarks of France. Adventure is on the horizon — what will your Sims discover?

Features

 * New life state: Mummy.
 * Accept challenges, find relics, discover what’s lurking in tombs and more.
 * Explore famous landmarks in pastiche countries such as China, Egypt, and France, each neighbourhood roughly the same size a Sunset Valley.
 * New game-play features such as puzzles and traps and choices that may change the appearance of the countries for good.
 * New Plants including new species of grapes and Fish (frogs, snails, and crocodiles ).
 * Collecting: 12 new gems, 8 new metals, 6 new butterflies, 3 new beetles.
 * Sims can also purchase snake charming baskets and try to charm them.
 * Meet new Sims from exotic locations, inherit and share their cultures.
 * Customize your Sims homes with new styles & artifacts from their adventures.
 * More architectural items, such as stairs and fences, are now fully customisable in Create a Style.
 * Get $10 worth of free SimPoints for The Sims 3 Store (1000 SimPoints).
 * New skills: Martial Arts, Nectar Making and Photography.
 * New traits: Disciplined, Photographer's Eye and Adventurous. There are also hidden cultural traits that Sims can only get (such as a Sim eating with chopsticks) by having a child with a native from a certain country.
 * Stores aren't rabbit holes in the destinations.
 * A new basement tool which makes them easier to build.
 * New Death: The Mummy's Curse.
 * New Pagoda roof styles and decorations.
 * Various new items relating to the 3 destinations: China, France, and Egypt.
 * New lifetime wishes such as visionary or seasoned traveler.
 * Music by artists in Simlish: Nelly Furtado – “Manos al Aire”, Pixie Lott – “Mama Do”, Stefanie Heinzmann – “No One Can Change My Mind”, Matt & Kim – “Daylight”, Young Punx – “Juice and Gin”.

Stores
Stores are not rabbit holes in the destinations. They are like normal houses, with a cash desk, and with an inventory of objects to sell.

There are markets and merchants in each location.

There are five kinds of markets, dictated by corresponding registers:


 * The general store;
 * The bookshop;
 * The restaurant;
 * The relic store
 * The nectary.

There is also a special merchant, a Sim who sells exclusive items for ancient coins.The merchant sells forbidden items

Videos
Video:The Sims 3 World Adventures trailer has been released! Video:Sims 3 World Adventures - China Trailer Video:The Sims 3: World Adventures Video Preview Video:Sims 3 World Adventures Create-A-Sim content Video:Egypt Video:The making of the nectar Video:Explore France in The Sims 3 World Adventures! Video:Matt & Kim - Daylight Simlish|The New Daylight Music Video