Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1072 in Digital Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 40671Generations13
- Released on: 2011-05-31
- ESRB Rating: Teen
- Platform: Mac OS X
- Format: Download
Features
- Sims of every age can enjoy new activities! Kids can hang out with friends in tree houses. Teens can pull hilarious pranks. Adults can suffer midlife crises. And so much more.
- Whether it's a raging all-teen party while the parents are out, a high school graduation or an official wedding ceremony, new celebrations make every age more fun.
- From bachelor party hi-jinks to getting in trouble for bad grades to hearing rumors around town about Sims who cheat on their spouses, hilarity ensues when new drama unfolds.
- Sims will enjoy all-new ways to be creative including tinkering with chemistry sets, making their own home movies that they can watch on their own TVs, playing make believe as an astronaut, dinosaur, princess, and more.
- All of the new activities, celebrations, and drama are easier than ever to remember and reminisce about with a new Memories system that keeps track of major life moments and also lets you share them on Facebook or your Sims My Page.
The Sims 3: Generations [Mac Download]
Customer Reviews
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
By NuEngland
I call this game a one-off because after you do everything the first time you will probably be uninterested in doing so again. There are a lot of new features to this game but most of them are for the sake of your children. If you don't like having children lingering as such for days upon days--like myself--you won't get much use out of this pack.Shiny new stuff--one of the coolest aspects in this pack is all the new kid gadgets you'll accumulate. Playground stuff includes sandboxes, 3 types of tree houses, mechanical horses, spaceships, and cars the children can ride, a seesaw, slide, hopscotch court, and various children's toys.Clothes--The first thing I noticed about playing Sims 3, and I am relatively new as a Sims gamer, is the lack of children's clothes. With this expansion pack being geared toward children/teen years you'll find much improved in cute/adorable outfits for your toddlers. The teens have some very cool new additions too, along with appropriate hairstyle options.IMAGINATION--One of the biggest and most intriguing aspects of this game is how imaginative the creators have gotten. They've created a very rich world for your toddler, child, and teen that can make for lots of fun on the first go round. For instance, the tree houses are not just places where kids can climb up to and sit. They can host tea parties, play space pirates, ban boys or girls from coming up, play pranks or even sleep in the tree houses. Children can pretend to drive cars by just sitting on a couch, play royal over a court by standing on a chair, or have tea parties with their stuffed toys.Imaginary friends-- One of the best features included in this pack has got to be the imaginary friend. You'll receive a doll in a the mail from a long lost, relative who you had no part in creating once your child is born. Some people have said that their child never got a doll. I've had that happen, but then I also had a female Sim have fifteen children and all of her children got a doll so I think the odds are good. Anyway, the child must play with this doll OFTEN. As the child grows so does the doll. You will find out later the ways in which a teen or a young adult can actually turn this doll into a human. At some point this doll will start to walk around and interact with only the Sim child or young adult (other Sims cannot see this doll which is where the imaginary friend part comes into play). You can choose the sex of the doll so that when it is turned human it will be either male or female. Child Sims now grown into adults have built such a relationship with this doll--now turned human--that they could marry him or her and have an instant companion. Also, once human, dolls have the ability to change back into dolls. (The children of DTH can also be dolls)Activities: Besides the plethora of ways for children to play and be happy, teen Sims can now be taught to drive, and they can go to prom (you still can't see inside the school, though), date, throw parties when their parents are on vacation, teepee or egg neighbors houses, set pranks up in your own house, and graduate from high school directly after aging up to a young adult.new traits: I think there are two new traits: rebellious and nurturing.new professions: along with the nurturing trait Sims can now be babysitters. I tried it once. It's very time-consuming and your Sim can barely do anything (cook, clean, chat w/other sims) w/o having to pick up and put down children.adult stuff: Most of the the teen clothes can be doubled for adults as well. Adults can now have a midlife crisis--which sometimes includes cheating on their spouse O_o. Adults also get two new, fast, but relatively ugly designed sports cars. Adults can now ground their children or put them in time out. I once had a Sim put her teen son in the corner. They can also get married in style. Unfortunately you won't find any new wedding dresses. I think its part of a ploy to get you to buy some from the main site. You will get a additional generic wedding cake and wedding decor. As far as I know there is no option for honeymoons.School: You can send your child/teen Sim to boarding school where they will not only grow up but develop traits and skills according to where you send them. If you choose to keep your children at home you can sign them up for after school activities or more classes.The partying, the graduation, and the pranks all grew old fairly quickly for me but I still say Sims Generations is worth the price if its reasonable. Note: Amazon runs sells on an undecipherable schedule. I bought Generations for 13 and change but I see its now close to $40. I'd advise any buyers to wait for a price drop.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
By Kelly Levy
I usually buy the game itself but I thought I would download it this time, Big Mistake! I'm not saying this would happen to everyone but for me it was disappointment after disappointment.I have a 15" MacBook Pro and all the specifications for this download including high-speed wireless internet, and the download took 6 hours! After waiting all day to play it, I go to install the game software and it tells me that the Sims 3 I have is not compatible with this game and that I have to download extra stuff. Well, I have the original Sims 3 and all the expansion packs, so I'm not sure what the issue is. So I have to download this new item and the download keeps crashing after about 30 minutes of downloading.Needless to say it has taken me all day to figure this out and it probably would have been easier for me to get the actual game and wait a day for shipping.I'm not saying this will happen to everyone, I mean it could have been a bad day for me. And like the review before me says: download times are different for everyone. Just don't go into the download purchase lightly.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By britt
The Sims 3 generations is a pretty good game. It download pretty quickly and was easy to setup and install. The game provides a lot of cool items for kids and teens. However, as an adult there isn't really an improvement. This game is geared towards the younger generation in the sims. I would have liked to have seen more products for adults. Overall, the game is pretty fun.
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