Your Sims may also find themselves being given a membership card to a secret club that only Sims with enthusiasm in that hobby can enter. Once their enthusiasm reaches a certain point, Sims are able to share their interests with other Sims by either talking about them, allowing them to read subscription magazines or even teaching them their passion. Before long however, she had spent so much time working out that she was able to go jogging around the neighbourhood, read about fitness in the newspaper, search for fitness on the internet and even subscribe to a fitness magazine that was delivered in the same way as the morning paper.Īs in “real life” a Sims hobbies can have benefits for their social lives.
At first, only the normal options were open to her, she could swim, use exercise equipment and work out in front of the TV or stereo. For instance, one of my students developed an interest in fitness and this was helped by the fact that she had a natural ability in that field. The more time a Sim spends on a specific hobby, the more the enthusiasm bar fills up and new options open up to them.
Hobby enthusiasm is measured in a similar way to the skills system with little bars representing their current level. You can have your Sims pursue an interest from a number of 10 different hobbies including “Fitness”, “Cuisine”, “Nature” and “gaming” and whilst every Sim can do well in any hobby with a little persistence, every Sim has a natural ability in one specific hobby and this natural ability makes it easier for a Sim to progress in that hobby. Well, since “Free Time” is said to be the last ever expansion pack for the game, it seems not a lot! This latest instalment brings hobbies and pastimes to our subject’s lives making the game that little bit more interesting and the characters seemingly deeper and more realistic than ever before. They had pets to keep them company, university to attend, businesses to open, holidays to enjoy and even the nightlife to explore. No longer did our Sims lives consist of home, work and school with nothing in between. Since then however, our little people have grown more realistic and more interesting with the release of The Sims 2 and its numerous expansion packs.
One of the most popular PC games ever, EA have had us creating little neighbourhoods full of little families since the year 2000. Most of us are no strangers to The Sims franchise.