
You can travel to China, Egypt, and France. The entertaining and addictive The Sims 3 Expansion pack World Adventures takes you to three new places.
No easy way to enter the basements you can now build. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication. How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac. How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files. How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill. How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad. How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. At times, it has an almost Shenmue look and feel to it, perhaps heralding a very different kind of Sims 4. Yes, you're stuck with the usual finicky movement and limited interaction, but it does add something new to a game that appealed more to escapists and shopaholics than genuine gamers before. World Adventures is easily the best add-on we've seen for The Sims and one that does more than just add new items to purchase. Taking photographs of particular locations or items, earns you rewards and is a skill you can upgrade as the game progresses – a gentle twist on the usual arcade adventure trick of hunting for bonus icons. However, if you fail there are penalties too – most notably a mummy's curse that sees you returning as a mummy (complete with undead social activities!) if you can't cure your malady in time. Naturally, there are rewards for completing these tasks, including Visa points to extend your stay. The adventure elements, though initially incongruous, are particularly welcome, with genuine thought and skill involved as the game takes a more RPG-like influence in how you use inventory items to survive the challenge.
There's also two new skills to learn martial arts and, bizarrely, nectar-making, which helps raise the mood of other characters, provided you make a decent plonk as a result. These could be retrieving objects scattered around the landscape or negotiating tombs and caves filled with hazards and traps. Each location has a bulletin board where you can pick up a variety of adventure-based tasks.