The Sims: Hot Date

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The Sims: Hot Date

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The Sims: Hot Date Developer(s) Maxis Publisher(s) Electronic Arts Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X Release date(s) November 14, 2001 Ratings ESRB: T PEGI: 12+ OFLC: M Themes Dating, '50s Patch

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-neighborhood, were used again in Nightlife, and the second expansion pack for the sequel game The Sims 2. Some elements of The Sims 3: Late Night are reminiscent of it.

Features

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

• Interactions: Adds more than 40 new interactions to make your date better, and a "three strikes and you're out" system, so if an interaction is repeated more than twice in the space of a few hours, it will be rejected. Also gives you more options when using certain objects.
• Relationships: Introduced for the first time both daily and lifetime relationship bars.
• Interests: Adds seven new interests; Exercise, Food, Parties, Style, Hollywood, Technology, and Romance.
• Soundtrack Music: Listen to romantic jazz songs composed by Jerry Martin and Kirk Casey.
• Sub-Categories in Buy Mode: Redesigned buy mode for easier object cataloging.
• 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).

Gallery

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  European cover

• The Sims: Hot Date commercial

  The Sims: Hot Date commercial

• The Sims: Hot Date Official Video Trailer

  The Sims: Hot Date Official Video Trailer

External links

• The Sims Hot Date

"The Sims" Chronology
Preceded by The Sims: House Party March 28, 2001	The Sims series expansion packs	Followed by The Sims: Vacation March 25, 2002

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