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Play with the change of seasons!
Fun for Every Season
Let your Sims swim in the ocean on a hot summer day, bob for apples in the autumn leaves, test their snowboarding skill on the half pipe, or welcome spring showers with a walk in the rain and a colorful umbrella. All-new activities, like soccer, and big seasonal festivals and celebrations bring the spirit of each season to life. Your Sims can pucker up at the kissing booth at the spring festival, or see what Halloween surprises await in the haunted house. Dress for the weather with seasonal fashions from raincoats to snow gear. With new foods, décor and weather effects, your Sims can enjoy the bounty and beauty of the ever-changing seasons and play with life like never before!
KEY FEATURES
- Delight your Sims with new activities for every season: Whether building an intimate igloo, carving a scary Jack o’ lantern, taking a plunge off the diving board, or setting off all-new fireworks, your Sim can always find new things to do throughout the year.
- Join the fun with seasonal festivals: Sims can get in a snowball fight at the annual winter festival, get their faces painted at the summer festival, whoop it up at the spring dance, or bob for apples during the fall festival.
- Experience the joy and challenge of changing weather: New weather effects and Sim reactions capture the power and beauty of nature! Sims can get a tan, be struck by lightning, or catch a cold!
- Bring the outdoors inside: Your Sim can now learn the recipe for pumpkin pie or style their home with new furniture and décor. There are a host of new items to ring in each season. Get a tanning booth in time for summer, or ring in the holiday spirit with house lights and decorations.
- Dress for the weather: Outfit your Sim in new styles for the season, including snow gear, wetsuits, raincoats and umbrellas, and new Halloween costumes!
- Welcome mysterious visitors: New weather patterns aren’t the only things appearing in the sky! Befriend an alien visitor and use their UFO to abduct a neighbour, invade a community lot, or travel to the stars.
LIMTED EDITION FEATURES
Relax in Style in the Ice Lounge
Pre-order The Sims 3 Seasons Limited Edition and receive the exclusive Ice Lounge community lot. This sleek and elegant social club can be placed in any world from The Sims 3, and is available in all seasons. It is a great place for your Sims to chill on a hot day or get out of the winter wind. The venue includes new ice objects that can be placed on any lot to make your Sims’ lives just a bit cooler.
- Build a hangout in your Sims’ home: Let your Sims entertain in style with the elegant ice bar, bar stool, and pub table.
- Make your Sims’ everyday décor cooler: Items like the ice dining chair, dining, table, coffee table, sofa, and loveseat can add distinctive style to any room in your Sims’ home.
- Spice up your architecture: The ice lounge also includes architectural elements to add a subtle touch of style to your Sims’ buildings. Install the ice column, double door arch, chandelier, or wall sconce light to add some chilly flair.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Eleni
TOP 100 REVIEWER
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I was really looking forward to Seasons and I couldn't wait to get all the great weather changes for my Sims. The new weather is fantastic and really adds a new exciting element to gameplay. However, although the weather is brilliantly done and the festivals and new activities are really fun and interesting, the expansion is just a little disappointing, as it seems that EA really rushed the release date without having perfected the game.
Each season normally lasts for seven days, but players have the option to change the duration of each season. Each season has different weather effects like sunshine, rain, lightning, fog, hail, and snow. Also there is a holiday held on the last Friday of the season, which is a special day and Sims don't go to work or school. There is a new festival community lot that takes the place of the town's main park and offers different activities for each season.
Summer is the first season of the Sim year. The weather is mostly sunny and warm with an occasional rain, and Sims have to use parasols and umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun and the rain. Opening their colourful parasols and umbrellas is really adorable, but keep in mind that they will not do that automatically, and you actually have to buy them and put them in their inventory. Sims can now swim in the sea which is great, but they can't swim in lakes, which seems odd and if your town doesn't have a sea, it can be a problem. The summer activities include water balloon fights, hot dog eating contests, fireworks and getting a tan. The summer holiday is Leisure Day and it can be celebrated with a Pool Party.
Fall is mostly rainy and foggy with leaves falling from the trees and Sims can rake the leaves and create piles to play in or burn.... Read more ›
Each season normally lasts for seven days, but players have the option to change the duration of each season. Each season has different weather effects like sunshine, rain, lightning, fog, hail, and snow. Also there is a holiday held on the last Friday of the season, which is a special day and Sims don't go to work or school. There is a new festival community lot that takes the place of the town's main park and offers different activities for each season.
Summer is the first season of the Sim year. The weather is mostly sunny and warm with an occasional rain, and Sims have to use parasols and umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun and the rain. Opening their colourful parasols and umbrellas is really adorable, but keep in mind that they will not do that automatically, and you actually have to buy them and put them in their inventory. Sims can now swim in the sea which is great, but they can't swim in lakes, which seems odd and if your town doesn't have a sea, it can be a problem. The summer activities include water balloon fights, hot dog eating contests, fireworks and getting a tan. The summer holiday is Leisure Day and it can be celebrated with a Pool Party.
Fall is mostly rainy and foggy with leaves falling from the trees and Sims can rake the leaves and create piles to play in or burn.... Read more ›
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By ghybjkl
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I was a bit concerned when buying this as I thought it would be pretty basic and literally just add changing seasons to my game but I was pleasantly surprised.
I loved the festivals and the way you can now snowboard and ice skate. There were loads of activities such as trick or treating and gift giving parties so there's plenty to keep you amused. I also loved how much attention to detail there was, it's really cool how the rain drips off the umbrella exactly like in real life and you can even decorate your house with Christmas lights. I felt all the small attention to detail aspects mixed with all the larger activities and skills to learn make this an overall enjoyable game, and one I have yet to get bored of.
I would have liked another town to be included as I'm still testing out all my towns to see which works best with this expansion pack, however, other than that I have no complaints.
My other favourite expansion pack has to be generations but I feel that this comes a close second. I can imagine it getting quite annoying with the seasons changing all the time over a long time of game play but like I said I have yet to get bored of it myself.
I loved the festivals and the way you can now snowboard and ice skate. There were loads of activities such as trick or treating and gift giving parties so there's plenty to keep you amused. I also loved how much attention to detail there was, it's really cool how the rain drips off the umbrella exactly like in real life and you can even decorate your house with Christmas lights. I felt all the small attention to detail aspects mixed with all the larger activities and skills to learn make this an overall enjoyable game, and one I have yet to get bored of.
I would have liked another town to be included as I'm still testing out all my towns to see which works best with this expansion pack, however, other than that I have no complaints.
My other favourite expansion pack has to be generations but I feel that this comes a close second. I can imagine it getting quite annoying with the seasons changing all the time over a long time of game play but like I said I have yet to get bored of it myself.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
By happy hermit
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Well finally got my copy of Sims 3 Seasons (what happened to day of release delivery Amazon?). First of all I must say that Sims 3 seasons does add quite a bit to the game. The addition of weather variables does make gameplay more realistic, and of course you have all the fun of weather related activities. You can build snowmen and igloos during the winter, carve pumpkins, bob for apples and go trick or treating in autumn. In the summertime you can go swimming in the sea, make snow cones, get your face painted, and enter pie-eating competitions. There are egg hunts in the spring. There is a festival in the park, for each season, which allows you to participate in most of these activities.
There is no new world with this expansion, and you can't change the season as easily as you could with the Sims 2 version (no tab this time). The season duration is set at default 7 days each season, which can be changed down to 3 days, or changed to up to 28 days in the options menu. So if you want to try out one particular season, you may have to work through 9 sim days to get to it.
There are quite a lot of new clothes and objects (such as the spray tanning booth),8 new lifetime rewards and 2 new character traits. We also see the return of some objects familiar from Sims 1 & 2, like the snowboarding ramp, diving board and roller skating rink. There is also a new rabbit hole, the Haunted House.
Your Sim is affected in different ways by the changes in temperature (includes some new ways to die!), and supernatural Sims are able to use the new "Weather Stone" to summon up some magical weather effects.... Read more ›
There is no new world with this expansion, and you can't change the season as easily as you could with the Sims 2 version (no tab this time). The season duration is set at default 7 days each season, which can be changed down to 3 days, or changed to up to 28 days in the options menu. So if you want to try out one particular season, you may have to work through 9 sim days to get to it.
There are quite a lot of new clothes and objects (such as the spray tanning booth),8 new lifetime rewards and 2 new character traits. We also see the return of some objects familiar from Sims 1 & 2, like the snowboarding ramp, diving board and roller skating rink. There is also a new rabbit hole, the Haunted House.
Your Sim is affected in different ways by the changes in temperature (includes some new ways to die!), and supernatural Sims are able to use the new "Weather Stone" to summon up some magical weather effects.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By rosidbon
Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Having played with The Sims games on a Mac for over ten years i am an enormous fan of the game and love to play but unfortunately, over the last few years things have gone from bad to appalling as far as EA's ability to put out games that actually work well on the Mac platform. In previous Sims games Sims1 and Sims2, the game was written, by Maxis, to run natively on Mac, ( we had to wait a while for the releases but the game did run as well as the PC versions.) With The Sims 3 EA have ported the game in to a wrapper called Cider which translates the PC version so that it can run(sic) on Mac OS. This means that EA can release the game for Mac at the same time as the PC version and so increase their immediate revenue returns. The Mac community have been telling EA for years that CIDER is not working well enough. The game needs a lot of Memory and Cider only allows 2GB to be used, so Cas no longer works and making Sims is almost impossible, 2GB is not enough to run the game with all the EPs and SPs so the graphics is bad and saving games is hard. There is a lot of crashing and freezing.
And NO response from EA. They just ignore Mac players and our problems. Customer Service is appalling.
Seasons is the EP that many people really look forward to and I am one of those people. I love the snow and there are some great activities with this EP. Snowboarding, snowball fights, ice skating rinks, christmas fairy lights, snowmen building, it is all just gorgeous. The kids being able to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating, dunking for apples, gathering fallen leaves, all just great interactions for the Autumn and I am sure that the Spring features like easter egg hunts etc. must be cool as well not that I have been able to do very many of these things in my game as THE GAME DOES NOT WORK.... Read more ›
And NO response from EA. They just ignore Mac players and our problems. Customer Service is appalling.
Seasons is the EP that many people really look forward to and I am one of those people. I love the snow and there are some great activities with this EP. Snowboarding, snowball fights, ice skating rinks, christmas fairy lights, snowmen building, it is all just gorgeous. The kids being able to carve pumpkins and go trick or treating, dunking for apples, gathering fallen leaves, all just great interactions for the Autumn and I am sure that the Spring features like easter egg hunts etc. must be cool as well not that I have been able to do very many of these things in my game as THE GAME DOES NOT WORK.... Read more ›
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sims 3 Seasons
Sims 3 Seasons is a great add on to your Sims world. All the Seasons are here. There are a lot of changes from the Sims 2 version. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jake Dean 50055
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Sims 3 Seasons: Limited Edition
It was a very good game, dispatched quickly and promptly and arrived in decent time. I am pleased with my order.
Published 1 month ago by S.C
3.0 out of 5 stars
The last Sims 3 expansion I will be buying
This added a lot of fun things! Like weather, aliens, swimming in rivers and seasonal festivals. Also, if you already have Supernatural installed it gives you the little treat of a... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Happy customer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant game
Love this game! Been waiting for this game since the sims 3 came out. Arrived quickly and would defiantly recommend it to any sims fan
Published 2 months ago by Julie Briggs
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favourite expansion! BUY IT, trust me
I never had the original Sims 2 Seasons. In fact, it was one of the only Sims 2 expansions I didn't purchase! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Allie Christo
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best expansions yet!
I have been waiting for weather for such a long time and this expansion is the whole package! Wind, hail, thunder, rain (and lots of it!) Seasons has it all! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jaynii
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sims
I love the Sims 3 and this expansion pack is very enjoyable. I haven't had a Seasons/weather pack before and find all the weather related activities and outfits to be very fun and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Elizabeth Hawkes
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this!
In my opinion, this is the best expansion pack for the Sims 3 by far! I love the random weather and the effects that it has on gameplay. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Katie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
One of the best expansion to the Sims 3 pc games.
The weather feature brings to life the game with heavy rain, thunder, snow and lots more making the game feel realer. Read more
The weather feature brings to life the game with heavy rain, thunder, snow and lots more making the game feel realer. Read more
Published 4 months ago by n shah
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simmer Needs!
I'd recommend this to ANY Simmer who wants to try something new, what a wonderful PC game to add to the collection.
Published 4 months ago by maxine
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