The Sims games have always been about playing God - and controlling to one extent or another the lives of the imaginary people of the game who, quite on their own, become very real to gamers who consider themselves to number among the core audience.

In fact it is fair to say that while the basic idea is similar, the mechanisms that were chosen for this expansion and the ultimate results are very different indeed. The first point is that the contents of Ambitions - while it is widely considered to be the spiritual successor to The Sims 2: Open for Business - are much deeper and progress in a different direction than that similar expansion did. There are some significant (if not important) points to be commented on Statistical facts about the game and be done with it for the purposes ofĪn Introduction, but that would be a disservice to you - and besides It would be simple enough to spew out the Opportunities and an expanded control mechanism into the game that was Major patch and update to the base game, it also introduced new career

Released in June of 2010 with much fanfare as, in addition to providing a Officially the second expansion pack (Stuff Packs do not really count)įor the current series of The Sims - The Sims 3 - Ambitions was The Sims 3 Ambitions Unofficial Guide by CM Boots-Faubert for