Comparison between The Sims 2: Open for Business and The Sims 3: Ambitions

A comparison of The Sims 2: Open for Business and The Sims 3: Ambitions.

Features in both

• Inventing
• Stores
• Cash register
• Salon
• Robotic Sims: Simbot in TS3:A, Servos in OFB.

Features in Open for Business not in Ambitions

• The Shopping District sub-neighborhhod (Bluewater Village) and the ability to attach more shopping districts for a main neighborhood
• Elevators (in The Sims 3: Late Night)
• Kite
• Other robots
• Bakery, though some baked foods exist in The Sims 3, and Ambitions allows a bake sale for children only
• Floricultures
• A Lemonade stand (Replaced by bakery stand )
• Fully controlable businesses (the ability to view the business,hire employees and assign them to jobs)
• Rally Forth Object and Death by Rally Forth
• Business Perks, Costumer Loyalty and Setting Prices
• Flower Arranging and Flower shops (though buying flowers and giving them returns in The Sims 3: Generations)
• Talent Badges such as Cash Registing, Restocking, Cosmetology and Toy Making etc..

Features in Ambitions not in Open For Businesss

• Laundry (new in The Sims series)
• Tattooing
• Firefighter, Private Investigator, Architect, Ghost Hunter, and Medical career
• Professions
• Trampoline (in The Sims 2 for PS2)
• Gnubb
• Sculpting
• Expanded inventing
• Skill careers (Self Employment) such as Inventor, Gardener, Photographer and Angler
• Time Machines and Miners
• New neighborhood: Twinbrook which is not a sub-neighborhood (Bluewater Village)
• Junkyards, Hangouts and Laundromats
• Scrap
• Education career

See also

• Comparison between The Sims 2 and The Sims 3
• Comparison between The Sims 2: Nightlife and The Sims 3: Late Night