Electronic Arts The Sims 3 Island Paradise - PC/Mac

De pronto vi esas curiosas tarjetas de pre-pago con la letra "A". Me animé a adquirirla, la redimí y el producto estaba donde yo quería en la mitad del tiempo que se había estimado. Pretendo comprar el resto de expansiones que me faltan por este medio. Práctico, cómodo y fácil. Buen precio. Además, la expansión es un verdadero bombón: Añade muchas funciones al ya amplio sistema de juego. Las habilidades de buceo son un deleite y más para quienes les gustó la segunda expansión de este juego. Navega en tu propia casa flotante, ten más de una si quieres. ¿Administrar tu propio hotel? Ha sido de lo más divertido. Muy recomendable por la cantidad de aventuras, aparte de estar bien actualizada por tratarse de una de las últimas expansiones del juego.

En Excelentes condiciones, llego sin ningun problema. Llego exactamente lo que estaba en la descripcion del producto. Muy muy contenta.

** NOTE: This is an expansion pack (EP). You must have the Sims 3 base game in order to use this expansion pack. **EA's struck gold again with this expansion to its mega-popular Sims franchise. In this one, the theme is "fun in the sun," with beach- and resort-themed play and objects to enjoy. With Maxis at the helm, what could go wrong? Indeed, this is just one solid hit after another, with gorgeously thematic objects and Create-a-Sim (CAS) stuff and added gameplay that reinforces the theme.EA's well aware that one of The Sims 2's strengths was the ability to own and run a business, and here, they give players the ability to develop and run a resort. Resorts are one of the most obvious new features to the game, and they're addictive to create. They can be themed a variety of ways, though the ones EA's favored are a traditional beach theme which is a bit Bohemian, "Spanish," which looks like Southern California to me, and something modernistic. The blueprint system they introduced a while ago gets a major update here with a variety of new rooms including pools, which have been majorly updated too and aren't just pretty landscaping anymore; you can install pool bars, slides, and waterfalls as well as the old-school diving boards. Every day, guests visit the resort and rate it, and their activities and ratings influence how much money the resort owner gets. Resorts can be placed in any gameworld just like any other lot type. Along with resorts, players also now have the ability to have any number of home lots in a world--and can move between lots (as well as gameworlds) almost effortlessly.As to home lots, players can build as many homes or resorts in one town as they like, or chuck it all and just go live on a houseboat. Yep, houseboat. They're easy to build and handle, and their biggest strength is that they can sail--and dock--just about anywhere! I love houseboats.Beaches have also been updated. Now players can direct their Sims to "play in the ocean" or even play with toddlers in the ocean, holding their little hands so the tykes can safely kick and laugh in the water. Sims can lay out in the sun (they get their own bright-colored towels to lay on). Any age of Sim can now make sand castles. And with a lifeguard chair on the lot, a Sim can now be a lifeguard, one of the new professions.One of the other major updates to the game involves dive lots. A Sim can now go snorkeling or SCUBA diving and find treasure and meet mermaids. These underwater dive jaunts are so incredibly beautiful and evocative. I can't say enough how gorgeous these lots are. Some have treasure chests that can be opened like mummy sarcophagi in World Adventures; many have secret caves that can be explored (but watch out for the tentacled beasts!) as rabbitholes. And with careful planning, players can create their own dive lots.The expansion's town, Isla Paradiso, is incredibly thematic. Each rabbithole and house looks perfectly in place for a Caribbean sort of theme, with colorful yellows, blues, pinks, and oranges predominating. The plants and building supplies are colorful and gorgeously wrought. The pre-made Sims are also perfect--I liked the back stories and appreciated the diverse cast of characters. The islands are time-consuming to travel, but there are some new methods of transportation--windsurfing boards, swan boats, speedboats, or just water taxis if you're poor. Or your houseboat, of course. The island chain also features secret islands discovered via gameplay.I didn't see much here that was too sexually suggestive beyond the stuff that the Sims 3 already features; there are some new WooHoo locations, but as always, sexual activity is adult-only and carefully censored. There is obviously no cursing, and aside from the pool bars that serve juices of various kinds, no suggestion of alcohol or drugs that I've seen. Some of the new outfits for men and women alike get a little skimpy, which didn't bother me but might be of concern to others. If so, make sure to check out the online fansites' writeups about them before picking this up.The Limited Edition version of this game includes a bunch of "stranded castaway" objects and CAS stuff. I LOVED that stuff; it's well-made all the way around and definitely looks spot-on for what it is. Anybody wanting to build "poverty" lots or needs more ragged clothing for a werewolf will like this stuff. I recommend getting the LE if you can.Overall, I hugely recommend this expansion to anybody even vaguely interested in this particular theme.As noted, this is an expansion, so it requires the base game in order to be played. It doesn't require an internet connection or Sims 3 forum account to use. I use the disk on both my Mac and PC, and will mention that on the PC it runs like a charm, but on the Mac, I get a lot of memory errors due to my machine not being top-of-the-line anymore. It doesn't run at all if I use all of my expansion packs, stuff packs, and Store downloadable content, but with the game totally crippled (I use about 20% of my total TS3 purchases on the Mac), it runs fairly tolerably. I'd be very cautious about getting this expansion if your Mac is already throwing Error 12s or crashing-to-desktop and you don't want to uninstall oodles of stuff; as you might be able to tell from my description, this EP is very memory-intensive and will definitely wreak havoc on a delicate ecosystem. I'm reluctantly docking this EP a star because I just can't play it on my Mac without seriously gimping my Sims 3 build. I wish EA would make a more Mac-friendly experience with this franchise.

Electronic Arts seems to be doing this thing with the Sims 3 and 4 expansion packs where they put as little as possible into each expansion and then sell the rest as a separate expansion in an effort to make more money. I say this because I think this expansion should have come with seasons. All the new activities would have been great with summer. I don't understand why they made it its own expansion, other than the money.The expansion itself is really buggy, like most Sims 3 expansions. I had to move out of the new world that came with this expansion because it made my game super laggy and slow. This game follows the idea of World Adventures. You can "explore" different islands to find more land and other cool things. They basically just added onto Seasons and World Adventures with this expansion. The water features are really cool, like the ability to use boats and dive into deep waters. I'm still working on learning how to make my own diving spots so that I don't have to use the ones that came with the laggy and slow default world. I also thinks this added more to my beaches as well. They look so much cooler.You can manage a resort as well. I tried it, and I really liked it. I liked how the reviews for your resort sounded so real, and not a single one of them were exactly the same. I also liked how you could upgrade your towers and add more to your hotel to make it better. It gave you something to do. Sadly, owning a resort also made my game laggy and slow, probably because of all the Sims walking around on it, so I had to remove it. Basically, The Sims 3 game isn't rendered well, so EA didn't do a good job adding features that wouldn't slow down your game.Lastly, I loved the new mermaid feature. The mermaids are so pretty and fun to play in the water. Sadly, they're not very practical for having a family and a normal job. Since they require so much water, my mermaids were constantly getting dehydrated during work and while just doing basic tasks. It was hard to me to keep up with them, especially if you start having children and get a family of mermaids. You don't even get a warning when they're about to die, so they're really easy to forget. Either way, I enjoyed the experience.Overall a very fun game, but really, I would hate to think how much money I've spent on all these expansion packs. I wish EA would stop being so greedy.

Like its nine predecessors,Island Paradise has all the bells and whistles you'd expect. New objects, new venues, new traits and skills, and new careers – all of them themed around this island and boating lifestyle. But the real attraction here is the addition of houseboats and the opportunity to build and manage your very own resort.No longer is your Sim restricted to the ground beneath his/her feet. Houseboats are exactly what they sound like, your Sims' house on a boat, giving you the ability to go anywhere in the ocean. Aesthetically and functionally, it's just like any other house you'd build. Aside from the nautical themed decorations and All-in-one bathroom, there's not much different. You still have all your basic rooms and can perform all the same actions you'd do in a regular house (even going to work by way of water taxi). Being in the ocean is in no way limiting, but it's also not as rewarding as I'd like.Gameplay when owning a houseboat does open up a bit. You can travel from dock to dock and travel the local islands, or you can take your houseboat (or ski boat or Jet Ski) for a whirl and unlock uncharted territories and open up new areas for you to drop anchor and discover. Underwater explorations through the scuba diving and snorkeling activities can lead to the discovery of exotic fish, caves, and shipwrecks. Like everything else you do, these activities serve as a nice break from the monotony of every day Sim life. It's worth noting, that to take part in some of these activities you need to increase your Sim's scuba diving skill.But for as neat as owning a houseboat and swimming underwater can be, that alone isn't the attraction of Island Paradise. The notion of building and running your own resort was the highlight, mostly because it adds a new element to The Sims 3 gameplay. Resorts in Island Paradise don't follow the typical build-and-play routine. You can actually manage the resort, making all the decisions from what amenities you offer to the uniforms of your employees.Owning your own resort can be a bit overwhelming, but it gives you something to strive for. Whether your building a resort from scratch or purchasing an existing one, it's up to you to get it the best rating possible – decided by guest reactions to the amenities, food, environment, and a ton of other factors. there are a lot of extras in the limited edition that makes it worth getting.