Save for being a bit too sanitized, The Sims 3: University Life other blemish is its lack of scope. Tagged with: Downloadable Sandbox Simulation. Its a good review, but you should tell people the price. Also is the limited edition more expensive or just a first-run thing? I like how no one is looking at the naked guy in the third pic. And how dude-bros and nerds are at the same party. Only in The Sims. That would never happen in real life. The school looks like Oxford or Cambridge.
The parties looks like University of Virginia. Pretty amazing. The Sims are vile. I think SimCity sold over 1 million in the first week. The franchise has sold million copies altogether. If the news got wind of it, they crucify EA. Robert Allen. Next: Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory Review. While University Life avoided the freezes and crashes of some other expansions, there were a few notable issues. The only way to get rid of him was to have him drop out.
For a short period, none of the controllable Sims could interact with others. In many ways, The Sims 3: University Life does a great job of replicating those wild college years.
Home Reviews. Pros Keg parties streaking and other college-themed acts of debauchery Climbing the social ladder to earn your dream job A variety of new activities on and off campus. Cons Being isolated from the main game Glitches that range from bizarre to aggravating Fast-forwarding through classes to get to the actual gameplay.
Cons - Being isolated from the main game - Glitches that range from bizarre to aggravating - Fast-forwarding through classes to get to the actual gameplay. Sadly, reaching level eight in all of them will do you no good, as hitting it in any additional groups will only give you the chance to change the social trait that you already selected the first time you did it.
I tried. Believe me. The other trait slot comes with graduating from uni — easily done — but for me, the social slot was the only real reason to bother with the social groups feature which, apart from a few perks, felt as unnecessary overall as the whole celebrity thing back in the Late Night expansion. Really, when it boils down to it, there is little that groundbreaking or diverting about The Sims 3 University Life.
While some things have been tweaked, and a handful of new baubles thrown into the mix, it is much the same — and pretty pedestrian — with some changes, additions, and omissions that may or may not sway veteran players one way or the other. Influence remains missing — although you can convince Sims whom you know well to do a few things for you — but it is perhaps just as well, because if the HUD sprouted any more additions it would likely collapse like an overloaded shelf.
Overall the whole thing just felt a little flat. Which brings me back to my opening paragraphs. Nothing game-changing anyway. Ultimately this expansion is more of the same, a little dull, and with not as much under the hood as one would hope for. I wanted it to shine, to make me want to pour as many endless hours into it as I did its predecessor… this time, I just milled around, slightly bored, feeling somewhat let down.
The Sims 3 University Life is a tough one to describe. On one hand, it finally brings the university experience back to the Sims franchise after a very long break, which is a welcome thing, and it does a fair job. On the other hand, it is sadly lacking - there was no real inspiration, nothing game-changing or even overly entertaining. The raft of social features and interactions will no doubt please players of a certain disposition, but the social groups feature, of which much has been made, was somewhat trivial, and only worth the time of day thanks to the dangled carrot of an extra trait slot - of which two can be gained in this expansion, which is perhaps one of its bigger draws.
As expected, there are some great interactions and objects, including some returning favourites, and even a couple of amusing deaths to spice things up for more sadistic players, which are always welcome and can be fun to discover. In addition, the jobs board makes earning cash a little more diverting than slopping out bowls of cereal in the dorm dining room, which makes sense, given the arguable success of a similar feature in World Adventures.
Deserving of more of a quiet round of applause than a triumphant fanfare, The Sims 3 University Life offers an entirely reasonable and perfectly acceptable expansion, but there just aren't enough interesting or entertaining layers to peel back, and those there are aren't enjoyable enough to rival the feelings inspired by Sims 2's version. That said, this expansion is a safe pair of hands and certainly more worthy of praise than some of its predecessors.
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