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The Sims: Hot Date Expansion Pack
- Windows, Mac
- Price: $17.99
- Genre: Simulation
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Relationships here are too mature for most kids.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is an adult world (the dating world here includes the opportunity to engage in casual sex and extramarital affairs), and there's really not much that's appropriate for or of interest to tweens and young teens.
What's it about?
With this inspired expansion pack, players leave their suburb and head downtown to locales include a beach and a park for frolicking, bars and nightclubs for meeting new friends, shopping malls for buying gifts, and restaurants for wooing your sweetie.
You'll find increased demands on the art of conversation as you work to meet new people or deepen the relationship with your partner. The icons that represent dialogue play a much bigger role in the game, revealing the interests of the Sims you meet and giving you clues about the best way to bond with them. This emphasis makes the building and maintaining of relationships much more difficult, and changes the main goal of the game from conspicuous consumption to social engineering.
Is it any good?
It's worth noting that by advancing the game play so much (and so well) it is kind of a drag to return to the old neighborhood. The home is still inextricably connected to the game -- you've still got to go to work, sleep, and shower -- but you can't help but feel constrained by the four walls once you've relaxed at the beach. All of a sudden, your regular Sims life of watching TV and taking out the trash doesn't seem so interesting.
Hot Date is not for the kids who play the other Sims games. It's suited for advanced, mature (and upwardly mobile) players. Not only is the gameplay more subtle, but the downtown life eats up your cash like this creative game eats up your time -- with wild abandon. As the title suggests, the subject matter here is mature -- or at least as mature as a bunch of adults whooping it up over mechanical bull rides and slot machines can be.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about relationships. The expansion pack monitors your friendships at both a superficial and deeper level, and you might want to ask your teens if these dual levels exist in real life. Can someone be fun to hang out with, but not be there for you when you really need them? You might also want to discuss the realities of the modern dating world and the consequences of engaging in casual sex or affairs.
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Unknown things are in this game!
Meowica women has found a secret! If you make your sim take a shower and go to buy mode, and delete the shower then you can see him naked without any blurrs! You are able to kill people,and pets. You can burn a bus to death and kill every kid on the inside. You can also see naked women! You can burn the grim reaper, using the KILL cheat code, and see Freddy Krueger and slice all of your sims open. You will be able to see puddles of blood. Sims can be shocked to death or drown in a pool. 2 sims can go into bed together, and have sex. You can even steal for people and that will teach kids positive messages. If you download the english language, every time anybody gets hurt they will scream bad words like F-CK or SH-T. THE END!
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the sexual content is my favorite feature.i play it and i'm 14 years old
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Hot Date. A old expansion pack from the first version of the smash game, "The Sims." This expansion pack was one of the best of the lot, it changed the game the most dramatically and was worth the purchase. The addition of a "Downtown" and the ability to go on dates were huge befenits.
Downside is the introduction of Sex into the game. This definitly pushes The Sims in to a Late-Teen game. I wouldn't want a 14 year old playing it.
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This game is for teens ONLY!
some adults are writing reviews for this game they rating the game for adults ages 17 and up. I say NO.This game has lots of sexual refernces and mature themes but i say the sims: hot date is suitable for ages 13 and up the sexual references are not graphic they're very OK for younger and older teens to play. This games has lots of sexual references.
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thank you
This is the first time I played it so let me play it
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It's pretty cool!.....
I love makeing my sims go on dates! the only bad part is you can buy "Haert Beds" that give you sims the option to "Play in bed" and thats pretty much it, plus they give you an assortment of kisses to choose from, from peck to firiery.
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Teens Only
This has too many violent and sexual concerns,so do not let a child play this
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| Platforms: | Windows, Mac |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Simulation |
| Developer: | Electronic Arts |
| Release date: | December 14, 2003 |
| Price: | $17.99 |
| ESRB rating: | T |
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