Complete List of The Sims 3 Expansion Packs With Trailers

The Sims 3 is a simulation game for the PC and the Mac. It is made by Electronic Arts (EA Games). With it, you simulate life. You can create characters, or use ones that are already provided, and move them into houses. You can also create the houses or use ones that are already provided.

Then you play with these characters in life situations like dolls. Please note that it is not a game for young children. It is rated T for Teen for Crude Humor, Sexual Themes and Violence. You can make up all kinds of stories for them, or try to achieve their life goals. Your Sims eat, sleep, use the bathroom, have romances, get in fights, go to school and work, have hobbies, and experience life events like birthdays, parties. They can get a maid, a nanny. They can try to repair things, or hire someone to fix it for them. They might even have a fire and require a firefighter to help them. There is so much that they can do and things that can happen, this game will keep you entertained for hours and make you forget your own needs while you tend to the Sims needs. It is a very enjoyable and addictive game.

Please note that these games take up a lot of system resources. Be sure to check the system requirements to make sure they will work on your computer. We had to install additional ram and a graphics card to play the game.

Also note that it does take some time to load the game each time you play it. The Sims does provide some entertainment to watch while you are waiting.

The Sims 3 game can be played by itself and is enjoyable by itself. But because it is so enjoyable, you may want to try the expansion packs to add to and enhance the game playing experience. You can choose any of these expansion packs, or all of them to add to your game. You can also pick and choose a combination of expansions as you wish. The games come in a CD and can also be downloaded.

Please note that all of these expansion packs must be played with the original Sims 3 game. They will not function by themselves. To save money, the Sims 3 game now has combinations that are packaged together, so you may want to compare prices of your games.

The World Adventures expansion pack came out in November 2009. It allows your Sims to vacation in three different locations in the world:

• Champs Les Sims (France),
• Al Simhara (Egypt)
• Shang Simla (China)

There are quests and new items and clothing that relate to these three locations. Your Sims can go on an adventure to explore caves and tombs and find treasures. There are also some new skill traits like photography, martial arts and nectar making. There are also new songs and some new build functions including the basement tool, nectar, fireworks, shops, and vacation homes.

The Ambitions Expansion Pack increases the number of career paths that are in the original program. Your Sims can now be firefighters, ghost hunters, doctors, private investigators, architectural designers, stylists, sculptors, and inventors. In some of these professions, they can be self-employed. Instead of seeing them off in their car to go to the mysterious "work", you can go along with them and see what they do.

The Ambitions pack comes with a whole new town of Twinbrook for the Sims to live in and explore. They can check out downtown Twinbrook to go to the laundromat, consignment store, salon, junkyard and fire department to further their careers.

In addition, they can now have tattoos. This expansion pack has also added laundry to the list of chores for the Sims, and includes a washing machine and clothes line.

The Late Night expansion pack comes with the world of Bridgeport. Your Sims can go out at night to bars, night clubs, and penthouse suites. They can mingle with celebrities, listen to bands, and go dancing. Some features are hot tubs, subway portholes, elevators, breast and muscle definition, Group, Band, zodiac signs, new swimming pool design tools, height adjustment for wall objects, fountain tool, the ability to become a vampire.

Your Sim can get a new career and become a member of a music band, mixologist, director, or local celebrity. All of these are accompanied with additional skills, traits, clothes and accessories, furniture, and cars.

The original game has some aging, in that babies grow up to be toddlers, children, teenagers, and adults. The Generations expansion pack provides more opportunities for the life's milestones. This game includes all-teen bashes, bachelor parties, and wedding ceremonies. Sims can enjoy the tree houses and pranks.

There are also new ways to be creative, with chemistry sets, playing make believe with costumes and imaginary friends, and making their own home movies. There is a new memory system to help remember the activities, celebrations and drama. New items include potions, spiral staircases, water slides, boarding schools, pillow fights, strollers, and canes for elders. There is also a new daycare career.

The Pets Expansion Pack includes cats, dogs, and horses. You can control the pets just like any other Sim, so you can go back and forth being the pet or being the owner of the pet. Just like human Sims, the pets have traits like friendly, grumpy, intelligent, and playful. The pets do many things, like dig, tackle, chase, obey commands, and of course, eat, sleep and use the bathroom. They can even learn new skills.

Besides cats, dogs and horses, you can also build a collection of lizards, turtles, snakes, and birds.

There is a new world of Appaloosa Plains in this expansion pack, new interactions and items that go with the animals. A new career of horseback rider is also available.

The Showtime expansion pack offers new stage careers for your Sims including singer, performer, acrobat, DJ, and magician. There are new objects, such as stage decorations, new traits, such as singing, and new lifetime wishes that go with these careers. There is a new world, Starlight Shores where these attractions take place.

This expansion pack includes social features that let you chat with friends, post on their walls, create friend lists, and post status updates. You can send your Sim to a friend's game, and have their Sims come to yours.

You can create your own stage, concert hall, club, or stadium. You can import celebrity Sims.

There is a Katy Perry Collector's edition that includes a downloadable stage venue, fruit-themed clothing, and special items and stage props.

The Supernatural expansion pack lets your Sims become fortune tellers, witches, wizards, werewolves, more intriguing vampires, and fairies, each with their own magical abilities, traits, and interactions. You can learn to cast spells, find exotic ingredients, race around the arena on your broomstick, visit the gypsy caravan, or preen in front of your magic mirror. You can also turn other Sims into zombies, and try to find the elixir to change them back.

There is a new town of Moonlight Falls where some magical things are revealed when there is a full moon.

The Sims 3 Seasons expansion pack includes all of the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and the various activities that are done seasonally. In the spring, they can go to a spring dance. . In the summer, your Sims can get their faces painted, go swimming or set off fireworks. In the fall, your Sims can bob for apples and get their faces painted. In the winter, they can have snowball fights and build igloos. They can get a tan, get struck by lightning, and catch a cold. The pack includes weather appropriate outfits, including snow gear, wetsuits, umbrellas and raincoats, and Halloween costumes.

This expansion pack also includes aliens which can invade a community lot and abduct your Sims.

For more information, see the review about Sims 3 Seasons.

Monte Vista is a cross between a stuff pack and a regular expansion pack. It has a whole new world as well as stuff such as the premium item wood fire oven. The oven makes Italian food such as pizza, calzones, lasagna and bread.

Monte Vista is an Italian themed world with rolling hills, cypress and olive trees, red poppies, museums, older buildings, villas, lighthouse, road signs, piazzas, coliseum, and new clothing. There are also several additional sets you can purchase to complete your Monte Vista experience, such as the Al Fresco Street Market, Vineyard Villa Furnishings, and the Mediterranean Villa Kitchen / Dining set.

University Life was released March 5, 2013. It follows the Sims 2 University Life with even more features and better graphics. Your Sims can go to classes, paint on walls, conduct experiments, attend rallies, play drinking games, and even go streaking and become nude models. They can party or be very studious. Decorate your dorm room to your heart's desire!

Available August 6, 2013, this pack provides Sims with a new world called Dragon Valley. While not officially an expansion pack, it includes a new world (Dragon Valley) and new creatures (dragons). This may seem like a rerun, since there is already a Sims Medieval, but Sims Medieval is a separate program (not a part of Sims 3) and does not have dragons.

Available June 25, 2013, the Sims 3 Island Paradise allows you to run a resort that is family friendly with water slides and buffet tables. You can live on a houseboat, go snorkeling for hidden treasure, and see a mermaid. You can get a suntan, go swimming, drown and be resuscitated. You can travel by paddle boat or speedboat to travel from island to island, and discover your own uncharted island.

If you pre-order the pack, you also get a bonus feature of the Survival Pack, which gives you the stuff you need to survive on a deserted island.

Released on October 22, 2013, the Sims 3 Into the Future Expansion Pack allows us to take our Sims into a world similar to the Jetsons. Of course, they go into a portal to travel through time to go a hundred years into the future to a world called Oasis Landing. They can chart their future using the Almanac of Time to build their legacy, meet their descendants and explore life in their future. The Sims can live there or simply purchase a dream home for the future. We can experiment with future technology and create Plumbots, new futuristic buildings and transportation. They can travel back and forth to see how the changes they make in their current life affects the future. The expansion pack comes with an exclusive dark industrial set.

The Roaring Heights is another world pack, which means there is a new city for your Sims to live. It is a glamorous city in vintage style with a skyline, art deco furniture, and bright colors. You can take your Sims characters back to the Roaring '30s, with the vintage fashions and hair styles, and a fixer-upper car that can be brought back to life.The Sims can actually get in the car and make out in it. You can have luxurious parties, Great Gatsby style.

The city has beaches and skyscrapers. The boardwalk with a roller coaster is sold separately.

A lot of people are commenting that it reminds them of Grand Theft Auto 5. While you might imagine that this type of era should have gangsters and guns, but they are not included in this pack.

This expansion pack became available December 12, 2013. I would recommend buying it directly from The Sims website instead of Amazon.

In addition to the expansion packs, Sims also offers Stuff Packs to supplement your game play experience. The Stuff Packs give your Sims new things they can purchase, and there is some additional interactivity with this "stuff", but the game play does not change significantly.

These packs are:

High End Loft Stuff

Fast Lane Stuff

Outdoor Living Stuff

Town Life Stuff

Master Suite Stuff

Katy Perry's Sweet Treats

Diesel Stuff

70's, 80's, and 90's Stuff

We have not purchased any of these Stuff Packs so that we could save money and system resources.

The Sims 3 Expansion Packs enhance the game playing experience, and provide opportunities for your Sims to have many different experiences, provides more clothing options, interactions, careers, and furniture.

The expansion packs so far are:

• World Adventures
• Ambitions
• Late Night
• Generations
• Pets
• Showtime
• Supernatural
• University Life
• Dragon Valley
• Seasons
• Island Paradise
• Into the Future
• Roaring Heights

While you must use the Sims 3 original game with these expansions, you can pick and choose your combination of expansion packs and stuff that you use with your game.

EA Games keeps us addicted by bringing up new expansion packs and stuff from time to time, so I will update this article as more expansion packs are introduced. The latest news is that The Sims 4 is next in production. This means that all the expansion packs will probably start anew.