Unfortunately, when I got back and brought up the Buy Mode menus, I noticed that those items weren't available. For example, after visiting China for the first time and acquiring the Martial Arts skill by training using a training dummy and chopping block, I wanted to purchase those items and place them in my home so I could train while not on vacation. There are tips that will pop-up and explain some of the new features, but there are a few things that you have to figure out on your own. The amount of time it takes to load each location (France, Egypt, and China), is slightly shorter than the time it takes to load your main game from the main menu.Īccessing the expansion pack's content isn't absolutely clear upon startup. Loading can sometimes be an issue, but that is simply a result of each vacation destination being nearly the size of your main town. Once you select where you want to go and for how long, a cab arrives to pick you up, it drives for a short while, and then your staring at a loading screen. One click and your character calls up the travel agent to book your destination and length of stay. For example, the main addition in the expansion pack is the added "Travel" option on your PDA. Most of the game's menus remain exactly the same, with only added features. The expansion pack delivers more than some internationally-themed furniture to buy or new characters to meet. World Adventures is an expansion pack that does something rather experimental with the franchise by giving it some light puzzle-solving and questing mechanics.
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Only a few months after the third installment's release, gamers are treated to World Adventures, which is designed to not only provide new content, as any self-respecting expansion pack should, but also new gameplay elements that focus on more than going to work, getting money, and buying new stuff. It didn't take long for EA to release the first expansion pack for The Sims 3.