The Sims 3: Ambitions

The Sims 3: Ambitions (Also known as The Sims 3: Hobbies and Professions before the official announcement), is an expansion pack for The Sims 3 and is tentatively set to be released on June 1st, 2010. It allows players to become "fearless heroes and ace entrepreneurs". In other words, it's a career oriented expansion pack, a spiritual remake of The Sims 2: Open for Business, but with added activities. Ambitions also appears to be somewhat related to The Sims 2: FreeTime, as well.

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The Sims 3: Ambitions

Save the Day or Revel in Chaos
Developer(s)	EA Black Box The Sims Division
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Series	The Sims series
Engine	Renderware
Platform(s)	PC & Mac
Ratings	ESRB: Teen PEGI: 12
System requirements	Minimum Hardware Requirements
Themes	New Hobbies and Professions
Creature	Servo
Neighborhood	Twinbrook

EA Games confirmed Ambitions on March 4th, 2010.^[1]

The Sims 3: Ambitions will also be available for feature phones, iPhone and iPod touch in late 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Description

"Imagine a world where you can make your Sim anything they want to be. Widen your Sim's horizons with a bunch of killer career opportunities. With The Sims 3: Ambitions, decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero, cause loads of mischief among their neighbors,or give some style advice. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change your town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or roughing up a suspect for information? Will they walk the runways as a fashion diva with exhilarating and swanky style? Their future is entirely in your hands!"

The Sims 3: Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighbourhood. While on the job, the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. Players can opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients. Be the heroic firefighter tackling raging infernos or smashing everything in sight at the victim’s home with an axe; take a shot at solving cases as an investigator, nicely convincing sources to divulge secrets or roughing up perpetrators in a dark alley to get information.

Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. In The Sims 3: Ambitions, players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. Additionally, players will be able to change the look and feel of their town by becoming an architect and directly affecting the neighbourhood around them leveraging Build and Buy mode. The stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbours in fashionable or catastrophic ways. For the first time, players will be in charge of how their Sims’ career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavours or technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future of a Sims’ success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.

Features

New town: Twinbrook^[2]

New creature: Servo.^[3] Servos are built by Sims who have inventing skills.

New mode: Renovation Mode is a variation of Build and Buy Modes and used by the architect to remodel for clients^[4]

New Build mode abilities: modify the pitch of individual roof sections and add multistory columns.^[3]

3 new skills:
- Sculpting: Sims can create sculptures out of ice, metal, clay and wood whilst another Sim poses for them.^[3] (Previously seen in The Sims: Bustin' Out)
- Inventing: There seems to be a wide variety of inventions. Servos are back, along with a time machine. Sims get scraps for inventions from scrapyards, a new type of lot, or by blowing things up.^[3]
- Tattooing: Players are taken to the tattoo editor where they can choose tattoos with up to five layers, modify their colors, change the size, modify the opacity, and select where to place it: upper, lower, or full back, neck, ankle, chest, stomach, wrist, shoulder, bicep, or forearm.^[4] (Previously seen in The Sims 2 for PS2).
Control Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job.
- According to a member of The Sims 3 staff, Sims will even be able to manage their careers to an extent while the player is not controlling them.^[5]

On-the-job choices now change the town and affect other Sims as well. Players modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.

9 new jobs: architect, doctor, firefighter, ghosthunter, private investigator,stylist,inventor,sculptor and tatoo artist.

New lifetime wishes: Save a large number of Sims from death in a fire, Solve a large number of cases^[6]

New Lifetime rewards: Fireproof your home, cash booster^[6]

Earthquakes are set to appear in this game^[7]

New objects: fire engine vehicle, personal fire extinguisher,^[8] detonation packs, tattoo chair,^[3] lockpicking kit^[6]
- Collect scrap from the junkyard, and broken objects for inventing^[3]

New upgrades^[8]
New traits: Savvy, Eccentric, Dramatic, Environmentally Conscious,^[9] and Perceptive.^[6]

Addition of the consignment shop a place for Sim's to sell their own items (collectibles, sculptures, etc.)^[10]

Ability to register at City Hall to be self employed in a "Skill Career" for writers, fishermen, and gardeners.^[10]

Overhauled real-estate system that lets the player purchase and upgrade any community lot building.^[10]

Sims will be able to do the laundry apparently, this has not been confirmed yet.

Notes

While Ambitions contain elements from Open for Business it will not be possible for the player to run their own business in the same style ^[3]
Existing careers, except the medical career, will not be enhanced and their career buildings will remain rabbit holes.^[11]
The town seen in the video trailer is a part of Riverview, just next to the bar.