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The Sims 4: City Living
File:The Sims 4 City Living.jpg
Developer(s)Maxis
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Platform(s)
Release
  • NA: November 1, 2016
  • EU: November 3, 2016

The Sims 4: City Living is the third expansion pack for The Sims 4, released in North America on November 1, 2016. It includes three new careers: Politician, Social Media and Critic. The pack also features a new world called San Myshuno where new venues (penthouses, art centre, central park, karaoke bar and apartments) are located.[1][2][3] It takes elements from The Sims 2: Apartment Life and The Sims 3: Late Night.

Gameplay and development

World and neighborhoods

City Living features a new city world named San Myshuno. It is heavily based on a variety of modern cities from around the world like Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York City, and also features elements of Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Moroccan culture throughout the city. San Myshuno has a total of 18 lots with 21 apartment units.

Apartments

A total of 21 apartment units are available in San Myshuno. Multiple apartments can exist in the same building, along with multiple families and households. Apartment interiors can be heavily modified, but exteriors are not editable.

Apartments offer new gameplay compared to normal residential lots, such as landlords, paying rent, various types of pests and close quarter neighbors. Sims in an apartment complex can knock on the door to yell about noise, they can enter another apartment within the complex albeit through a loading screen, and then see the other apartment and chat with their neighbor. Sims can give trusted Sims the key to their apartment, allowing those Sims to walk into the household apartment anytime they like.

Apartments in San Myshuno also have pre-selected lot traits in them, that can be modified by the player. However, some apartments have special locked traits that can't be removed. This is because some shells have objects (or pests) in them that require these specific traits.

Apartment buildings cannot be added to San Myshuno, and apartments are only available in San Myshuno and Evergreen Harbor.

Penthouses

A total three penthouses are found in San Myshuno. They are placed on top of decorative buildings that do not have any limitations beyond their lot size, so they can be demolished and rebuilt, much like other buildings on a normal lot. Sims in penthouses can't have neighbors as only one household can live in them, making penthouses very private. However, other Sims are able to visit penthouses by using the elevator.

Living on a penthouse lot is not very different from living on a normal lot, but in order to make the penthouse work, the player needs to add an elevator, a recycle bin, and a mailbox. A community lot penthouse also needs an elevator so that Sims can travel up and down the building. Other Sims will visit these lots the same way as they visit normal community lots in other worlds.

Penthouses are not available in other worlds and are only found in San Myshuno.

Festivals

In City Living, Sims can now attend different festivals. There are five festivals: Geekcon, Humor and Hijinks Festival, Romance Festival, Spice Festival and Flea Market that take place around the different districts of San Myshuno over the course of a two-week cycle.

In apartment buildings there is a bulletin board, where Sims can read about the festival to see when the next festival is going to take place and what activities, competitions, and schedules this festival has to offer. Festivals can also be read about on dynamic signs located in different parts of San Myshuno.

When a festival is about to begin, an identifying jingle will play and a notification will appear letting to know that the festival is about to begin. This notification also can be used to teleport Sims to these festivals, if they are located in another neighborhood. Festival objects and activities will appear in the neighborhood where the festival is located in, and disappear when the festival has ended.

Careers

City Living introduces three new careers: Critic, Politician, and Social Media. Each career track has two career branches. These careers include interactive career assignments, where Sims in these careers have job tasks that take them to various locations around their world.

If a Sim works in one these three careers, an hour before the Sim is going to work, an alarm notification will appear on the phone. There the player can choose to either "Go to Work", "Work from Home" or "Take the Day Off".

If the player chooses to work from home, the game will generate two randomized tasks for the Sim to complete, in order to gain boost to their job performance that is added to the payment received when the day is over. If these tasks are not done by the Sim they were assigned to, the boss will be disappointed and job performance will be lost.

Music

The expansion pack features songs re-recorded in the fictional Simlish language, including:

Reception

On the aggregator website Metacritic, City Living received a score of 78 based on 13 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Autumn Noel Kelly (September 13, 2016). "'The Sims 4: City Living' Release Date: What's In The New Expansion Pack?". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Mat Paget (September 13, 2016). "The Sims 4 City Living Expansion Features a Geek Convention, Penthouses". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  3. ^ "'The Sims 4: City Living' Expansion Pack: No Apartments From Scratch, Limited Loading Screens & More San Myshuno Details". September 20, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  4. ^ Lozano, Kevin (November 2, 2016). "Listen to Tegan and Sara Sing "Stop Desire" in "Simlish" for "The Sims 4: City Living"". Pitchfork.
  5. ^ "The Sims 4: City Living". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "The Sims 4: City Living". Metacritic. CBS oooInteractive. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  7. ^ Rhi Mitera (January 3, 2017). "PC Review - 'The Sims 4: City Living'". WorthPlaying. Retrieved January 7, 2018.


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