The Sims™ 3: GENERATIONS - Official Thread

[Kate]

Official Site: www.thesims3.com/game/ep4

Screenshots: www.thesims3.com/game/ep4/screenshots

Videos: www.thesims3.com/game/ep4/videos

Box Art Work: It's HUGE and PRETTY! Click me, click me!!

Live every age to the fullest!

Enjoy a whole spectrum of rich life experiences with your Sims! Start off in the imagination-fuelled world of childhood and embrace the drama of the teen years. Experience the complicated realities of adult life, then reap the benefits of growing up in each life stage. A wealth of new options and activities makes your Sims’ lives more meaningful than ever before, whatever their ages. With new celebrations, dramatic life events, and all-new ways for your Sims to express their creativity, The Sims 3 Generations lets your Sims live life to the fullest!

KEY FEATURES

• Sims of every age can enjoy new activities! Kids can hang out with friends in tree houses. Teens can pull hilarious pranks. Adults can suffer midlife crises. And so much more!
  
• Whether it’s a raging all-teen party while the parents are out, a high school graduation or an official wedding ceremony, new celebrations make every age more fun!
  
• From bachelor party hi-jinks to getting in trouble for bad grades to hearing rumors around town about Sims who cheat on their spouses, hilarity ensues when new drama unfolds!
  
• Sims will enjoy all-new ways to be creative including tinkering with chemistry sets, making their own home movies that they can watch on their own TVs, playing make believe as an astronaut, dinosaur, princess, and more!

All of the new activities, celebrations, and drama are easier than ever to remember and reminisce about with a new Memories system that keeps track of major life moments and also lets you share them on Facebook or your Sims My Page!

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This thread will serve as the place where all the latest news will be posted. If you wish to discuss it, feel free to go discuss the new EP in Dizzy's thread.

I'd like to ask you NOT to post on here unless you have obtained a piece of news about TS3: Generations.

Thank you, happy Simming!

[Kate]

Release dates (according to Amazon US, UK, etc)

NORTH AMERICA: May 31, 2011
EUROPE: June 3, 2011
AUSTRALIA: June 24, 2011 (unconfirmed)

[Kate]

Previews/Interviews and Such From Around teh Internet

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Gamespot 'Impressions' Article: uk.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/the-sims-3-generations/news.html?sid=6307108&mode=previews

Gamespot Q&A: uk.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/the-sims-3-generations/news.html?sid=6308310&mode=previews

IGN Article: uk.pc.ign.com/articles/116/1162165p1.html

Digital Spy Interview: www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/interviews/a315455/graham-nardone-sims-3-generations.html

PC Gamer Article: www.pcgamer.com/2011/04/20/preview-sims-3-generations/

Sim Goodie Q&A: www.simgoodie.com/04/the-sims-3-generasjoner-qa/

TS3:GEN Sims Wiki page: sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_3:_Generations[/center]

[Kate]

New Features & Facts

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• Pranks (new interaction)
  
• Booby traps (new interaction)
  
• Ghost stories (new interaction)
  
• Star gazing (new interaction)
  
• Make-believe/dress-up (with new animal and fairytale-inspired costumes for children, similar to outfits in The Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff, such as an astronaut, dinosaur, or princess
  
• Gift giving (new interaction)
  
• Ask/ Be asked to Prom (new interaction)
  
  
  
• Water slide (similar to a Slip 'n Slide) (new object)
  
• Spiral slide (new object)
  
• Video camera (new object) - comes with the ability to watch Sim-created videos on the Sim's TV
  
• Larger family portraits
  
• Wedding arch (new object)
  
• Shampoo
  
• Tree house (new object)
  
• Bunk bed (new object)
  
• Stroller (new object)
  
• Spiral staircase (new object)
  
• New playground equipment (such as a see-saw, spring ride and sandbox)
  
• Sleeping bag (new object)
  
• Lava lamp (new object)
  
• Chemistry set (new object)
  
• 3 styles of cane and 2 styles of walking for Elder Sims
  
  
• Body hair
  
• Catalog expansion pack filter
  
• Individual age sliders
  
  
• NEW TRAIT—Rebellious: Sims with a rebellious streak can make trouble pulling off various pranks, like doorbell ditching, adding hair dye to their sibling's shampoo, making the toilet explode and so on.
  
• NEW TRAIT—Nurturing: Sims with the nurturing trait will be great at taking care of kids and can punish naughty Sims by giving them timeouts, banning video games, and grounding them
  
  
• NEW PARTY TYPES—Prom Night for teens, high school graduation, teen house parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties (with the return of entertainers), new wedding ceremonies, and slumber parties
  
  
• NEW CAREER—Daycare
  
  
• NEW CREATURE—Imaginary Friend.
  
  
• NEW SCHOOLS—Sims can send their children and teens to 1 of 5 specialist boarding schools such as military school, sports academy, art school, hippie school or a posh prep
  
• Field trips for children
  
  
• WooHoo in new places: the shower and tree house
  
• New memory system: Return of memories tracked in a scrapbook (and online) and a feature to make memories
  
• Teen Sims can now be taught to drive by their parents in the Blu Van
  
• Dating returns to the game
  
• No new rabbitholes as the only new community lot is a playground

[Dizzy]

New Lifetime Rewards

*Hover bed - 20,000 points
Well, what do you think? It's a bed, that hovers! Sims will get a special moodlet from sleeping in the hover bed, and also woohooing looks pretty funny as the bed... bounces about.

*Super nanny - 25,000 points
If you work in the daycare profession, your Sim will become really good at keeping the kids in line. They become less likely to pull pranks on your watch, and generally more obedient.

*Clean slate - 25,000 points
Another aspect to this EP is that your Sim will build up a dating reputation. If you woohoo with too many people and never call them back, well, word gets around. This lifetime reward lets you lose your dating reputation so you can start over.

*Inheritance - 30,000 points
A long-lost relative dies and leaves you lots of money.

*Above reproach - 35,000 points
Public displays of affection will go unnoticed by passers by if you buy this reward.

*Motive mobile - 45,000 points
it fills up your motives as you drive, so you arrive at your destination with full motive bars. Cool!

*Clone voucher - 45,000 points
Redeemable at the science facility to have a child-age clone of your Sim join the family.

Taken from This Post which has a very extensive list of what is included in this in EP.