The Sims: Hot Date Expansion Pack

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Features:

• In The Sims - Hot Date, you'll play matchmaker and see if you can take your Sim down the path of romance!
• Take your Sim Downtown, and meet up with other Sims you can ask out on dates
• Create fun places to take your date -- movies, clubs, parks, and more
• Keep your date interested and take him/her places like a restaurant or nightclub, to build your relationship meter
• Mood is important here -- set the right mood or your date will leave in disgust

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

The sims Hot date is Traffic [Posted on 2001-08-31]
Ever since its release early last year, The Sims has had powerful and lasting appeal. Whether it's the lure of manipulating a family of artificial people, building homes, or managing all the aspects of a career and lifestyle at your own pace, the Sims has that special quality that has garnered millions of fans. The beauty of the game that Will Wright created, though, is that it emulates real life, meaning it has an endless base of possibilities to draw from for future expansions, and it is also modular in design, meaning it's fairly easy for the designers to plug in new components to enrich the game.

One of the new NPCs is the lovelorn guitarist.
The Sims has had two expansion packs so far, and now Maxis is producing a third one. Maxis says that it is always considering what the fans want and is always looking to dig deeper into places it hasn't yet explored. In this new expansion, Hot Date, the designers are now delving into one aspect that Sims fans have clamored for from the beginning--the opportunity to manage and manipulate romantic human relationships in greater depth than was previously available in the original game. After all, now that you can have a career and throw a party, what about dating and romance? With Hot Date, Maxis is now giving lonely Sims fans a love life.

A new facet of The Sims: the Downtown area.
We recently visited the Maxis offices in Walnut Creek, California, and got a chance to see Hot Date, which has been in development for a little more than a month and is slated for release sometime in October or November. Maxis says that when considering Hot Date, there were two things it wanted to play with: social one-on-one interaction between Sims and letting players go to someone else's house. The first objective would be easy to achieve; however, the second was determined to be too difficult. That is because each house in The Sims is a saved game, so you can't visit and interact with someone else's house without messing up his or her saved game. Thus, it was decided that a compromise could be reached by creating an entirely new location where social interactions could take place. Enter Downtown.

Downtown is a neutral location, so to speak, where dates happen. Hot Date is about being in Downtown with your date. Just like you can with a house, but on a larger scale, you'll be able to build Downtown into whatever you want, creating different parks, restaurants, clubs, shops, and other venues. Downtown will look very different from your original neighborhood--picture a street of small boutique shops and restaurants--and will also have its own nonplayer characters (NPCs). Many of the components are new and fit into the style of a downtown district but can also be added to your homes if you wish

i am confused [Posted on 2001-09-02]
hi, i love the sims, have all the expansion packs livin'large + house party but the hot date, what duz it mean, i mean you can just normaly kiss and marry and all that but i am just confused, anyway i am sure the hotdate will be the best so far. thanx alot please reply, i dont really know how ,i suppose you could rite a review under it any way..
jack

The Date to Die for? [Posted on 2001-09-06]
The first question I will ask in this review is: 'Is the Sims more of an adult game... or is it aimed at kids too?' I love the Sims and I'm 12 - as are quite a lot of other sims fans I know. Adults like the game - there's no doubt there! But kids ADORE it! If The Sims was good, Livin' it up'gave it loads of excitment and fun and house party was EXCELLENT... then what more can I say about Hot Date: the 3rd expansion pack in the series? Simply this: Hot Date's smooth gameplay and excellent new opportunities make it seem as though it is an entirely new game altogether! You may think to yourselves... 'a child exploring Hot Date's opportunities? the genre is most definately made for adults!' Although, (and I say this with a bit of a giggle) the sims now have more... ways to show they love one another, and most of the objects ARE pretty... STEAMY, there's nothing there to show that one of such a curious mind can't explore there! How can anyone resist such an opportunity when every review of Hot Date has been given 5 stars, reviewers of the game turn completely optimistic, and even non-sim owners want to take a step further. With new things in hot date such as Downtown (a place where your sims can go to meet new people) cuddly and social new objects (the luv tub, cuddle couch... need I say more?) and more relationship and optential skills for your sims... what's gonna stop us when Hot Date hits the shops? That may be in November sometime, I can't promise you anything. The only thing I can promise is that Hot Date is sure to be on the top of my christmas List this year!

Best expansion ever!!! [Posted on 2001-09-06]
I have the sims and both expansions. They are awesome!! I have probably spent more time playing the sims than no one lives forever. i am definatly gonna get this game the day it comes out. The downtown will be great and the new objects will too.

read all about it [Posted on 2001-09-07]
i'v read all about this and the game sounds exciting i have th e original sims and the two expansion packs i am looking forward to this game and don't think ill last until it comes out on the 15th of nov. in this ep you can play footsies and get in a monsterous makeout session. people say the point of this ep is to marry on the night of your first adte but i believe if you take your time it will be more fun i highly recomemd this game and hope you and i will like it when it comes out . oh duh i forgot to mention the main purpose it is to take place in a downtown setting where you can go to the beach a restuarnat park dance club cafe boutiques on the street or many more. there is many more things to be said but i have to go! chow! love yal!

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