Discover the city of San Sequoia, a great place to start a family, and watch it grow! The world of The Sims is expanding again, with the new expansion pack unveiled this February 2, 2023. With The Sims 4: Growing Up Together (available on PC, Mac, PS4, PS5, XBox One and Series X/S), make your family life richer and more exciting, at any age! Grow your family starting March 16, 2023.
Each generation has its own activities, challenges and desires. This pack will make your game even more lively and detailed. The good news is that the different generations interact with each other and have more opportunities to get together: the trailer shows us several activities that should help strengthen the bonds between generations.
Move to San Sequoia, a bustling town with an ancient history, and experience a rich family life filled with sleepovers, drama, and self-discovery. Let your parents move in with you - or not - and see how it affects your relationships. Navigate through your midlife crisis and gain new personality traits. Meet strangers and become instant friends - or enemies! There's a lot to experience, together.
So this new pack takes us to Sans Sequoia, a San Francisco-inspired seaside town consisting of three different neighborhoods and twelve housing lots, a park and a lake. There are plenty of outdoor activities for the whole family to do. This expansion focuses on the relationships between the Sims and their personal evolution.The new gameplay allows us to set milestones in life: loss of the first baby tooth, marriage, graduation, first day of school, learning to ride a bike, first job... The Sims become more complex, their lives are richer, and we can see their progression and their history thanks to these milestones that remain in memory.
The daily life of our characters is also enriched with the many options ofactivities and development, for all stages of life. Learn to roll over, ride a bike, do puzzles as a family, play tricks at a sleepover, have a baby shower, lose your first tooth, play dominoes, build tree houses, take a walk with the kids, change diapers, or keep fit in retirement... No family member is left out in this pack.
And speaking of family members... Here too, there's a nice novelty! Until now, Sims could have a child naturally, or by adopting. With this pack, science enters the game, allowing us to create a biological baby, via a surrogate mother. To do this, you'll have to ask a close family friend to help you.
This pack should also bring a little bit of challenge in your games. Indeed, the system of attractions becomes more complex. You can now specify, for each Sims, their preferences in terms of conversation topics, and behavior. For example, a Sim who doesn't like sports fans or people who are mischievous will have a much harder time forming a friendship or a romantic relationship with them! In addition, conversation options are adjusted according to the age of the person you're talking to: an elderly person may want to give their grandchild some money, while a brother and sister will have more options for bickering.
This pack comes, of course, with a massive free update to the base game. An update that allows us to really play with our babies, now free from their cribs. This is a life stage in itself: after the newborn stage, and before the toddlers, come the infants. They can learn new skills, play, crawl around the house, throw tantrums... Good news for players, not so good news for Sims parents, who will have to take care of their offspring full time.
Don't worry: raising these little Sims is still as much fun as ever: each infant is a unique being! To discover their personality, you'll have to play with them, and pay close attention to them... You will then know if they are good eaters or picky eaters, if they are aggressive or very emotional, if they like to be carried or not... Special personality traits have been added for them, and are activated according to the actions done during the game!
As always, if you buy this pack before April 27, you can get three collector items: a decorated swing, a small whale-shaped slide and a sports machine for grown-ups.
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Dates and Opening Time
On March 16th, 2023
Prices
€39.99
Official website
www.ea.com
