The Sims 3: World Adventures

The Sims 3: World Adventures – The global phenomenon goes... well... global?!

The seemingly endless number of Sims games is a testament to this successful franchise. As with any Sims game, there’s a limitless amount of possibilities which all stem from the actions of the Sim and your choices and actions you make for your Sim.

At first, you must pick your Sim, male or female, outfit, persona and traits. This means not only do you have the fun of making this as serious or as off the wall as you dare, but by picking from a range of personas e.g. well rounded to total pain and then adding this the traits ranging from clean or slobby, shy or extrovert to genius or inept... you have a variety of things which are going to make any situation unpredictable at best!

Depending on what you’ve chosen, your Sim will be challenged to do certain tasks to receive a reward. For example, you must get 12 Sims to hate your Sim, learn to make a new cuisine dish and to slap 10 Sims. Needless to say, some challenges are more achievable than others and there are hilarious outcomes which result in all you do.

As you may expect from something with World Adventures in the title, you would probably see a fair bit of the world. It’s just as well then that you get to board aeroplanes to a variety of global destinations. Thankfully there are a few mini-games to help pass the time while ‘in flight’. Alas, there are no movies but there is a game where you must try to prevent your Sim from being travel-sick by looking at pretty pictures rather than stormy scenes. There seems no real benefit or reprimand for successfully achieving this goal or not, but it does help to pass the time.

Something struck me when playing; if I’m meant to slap lots of Sims as soon as I arrive at a destination, surely you’d expect to be sent back home for being disorderly. However, to be fair, why should you let something like this get in the way of some wholesome entertainment?!

The game does try to capture the entire experience you would expect to see from The Sims, which is no mean feat and in truth it does get a little hectic for a few reasons. Firstly, your Sim is able to be autonomous, even when you’re ‘in control’ which makes it quite difficult to keep track of their whereabouts and makes it quite a challenge to do tasks. Secondly, with a seemingly endless list of tasks, you can swiftly end up with quite a long list of things to do and if you fail to do these, your Sim will become unhappy and even less likely to behave as you wish.

Ultimately then, this game is totally engaging and offers a number of challenges, funny consequences and interesting dilemmas for you to choose or allow your Sim to do with as they wish. This game is possibly the best Sims game on the mobile scene and totally worthwhile playing.

Rating 88%

Positive

Totally addictive and very unpredictable game

Plenty of challenges and destinations to explore

Almost limitless combinations and outcomes

Suitable for just about any age

Negatives

It can become quite confusing and hard to keep on top of all the challenges

The Sim moves around a lot on its own regardless of whether it’s on ‘auto’ or not – making it quite a headache trying to follow them around screen and get them to do what you want