Simmer in the Sunshine (The Sims - On Holiday (Expansion Pack) (PC))

Member Name: Goldensummit

Product:	The Sims - On Holiday (Expansion Pack) (PC)
Date:	14/10/04 (185 review reads)
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Advantages: Its cheap, New Items, Holiday expirience

Disadvantages: Need original, Newer out

This is a review about the Sims On Holiday, one of the best Expansions there is for the Sims. You get loads of new options on building your house, when you live and play your Sims, you are able to go on holiday, and also, you can make your own holiday camp, how cool is that.

To play this Sims, you will need the original Sims to be installed, or you will be upset, because it won't allow you to install this Sims. So if you are a Sims fan, and want to buy this expansion, and then make sure you have the original game installed on your computer before installing this expansion pack.

When you go on holiday, you will find loads of new holiday characters, such as Beach Shark, Robin Hood, Yeti and Holiday Director. You can go on holiday by phoning a taxi to go on holiday, it costs you 500 simolions but it is worth it, especially if you know the money cheat, which I do not use all the time, only if I’m just having fun with a mega house. There are over 125 new items that you can get for your holiday or house including, Snowman, you can mould him up, or melt him to death. Tent, you can go camping in the woods on holiday, in the absolutely great outdoors. Fishing Pier, go fishing for prizes, food. Half Pipe, have fun on your snow bored on the mini half pipe.

There are loads of little activities you can tell your Sims to do when you are on holiday like, metal detecting, you could win big simolions, they are just buried, waiting for you to pick. You can interact with loads of other Sims when you’re on holiday, make new friends. You can hire rooms to sleep in, eat at the restaurant, and get snacks at the snack bar.

Have fun by playing volleyball with your friends or family on the Sims (not meaning that this is internet, it is that your families you make on the Sims). There are loads of new items also that you can play around with, and some that are wackier then usual.

The playability is great, you won’t get bore of this game at all, well if you do, then come later days, you will be ready to play it all over again, the game does not get repetitive as it is you who decides what your Sims family does, and you make all the decisions.

The game can be quite addictive, depending if your family is doing well, and your getting quite rich, and planning on going for a promotion for your Sims, then you could be on it for hours, but if there is nothing you can do about your Sims, you might as well quit the game, or start again with a new family.

The game is quite original; it is made by the same creators of Sims City... EA Games. You can move your Sims around like they were actually a real person, and your just commanding them, like a General and his army.

The graphics are superb, the smoothness of your Sims faces, and clothes, what a management game, can't get much smoother, unless it was real...

The sound of the game is ok, the problem is, when your Sims talks to other Sims, they talk all gibberish, like it was a different language, but the speech bubble pictures kind of give you a small idea of what they are talking about, and if they like it or not, you will see.

The game is quite complicated, not for the younger kids, most of the Sims games are 15+, because some of it can get rude, not rude rude, but other types of rude. Its best to have an idea of what you are going to build before you do it, or it will look rubbish, and probably fall apart, which can never happen, but people can dream.

I think that this game is very good; it deserves a 3 star, as I have not played the game in ages, well not recently as I have not installed it on my computer yet. The game has its good points, and its bad points, depending how you look at it really. The Expansion costs between £10 - £20, depending where you get it from.

CAUTION - You do need to have the original Sims before buying and installing this Expansion Pack.

Minimum Requirements

1. Windows 95/98/XP
2. The Sims
3. 266 MHz Intel Pentium or AMD processor
4. 64 MB RAM (128 MB is required if using other expansion packs for The Sims)
5. 4x CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive
6. 600 MB free hard disk space plus space for saved games
7. High colour (800x600 resolution) capable 2MB video card with DirectX 7.0 compatible driver
8. DirectX 7.0 compatible 7.0 sound card
9. Keyboard, mouse

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