Sure, the spells are neat, and the idea of practicing magic to learn more powerful spells appeals to a grinder mentality.

Do you really need to personally hunt for ores and gems if you raised a dog to do so with Pets? Or if you’ve saved up the Lifetime Reward Points to buy a Collectable Detector to just spot them on the map, a reward that shipped with the base game? The new magic system suffers the same problems. However, every addition to the engine is a repetition of an addition from a previous expansion pack (or even the base game!). Becoming a fairy allows you to play “fairy tricks” on your friends to increase relationship points, while channeling your lycanthropy lets you become the alpha of your werewolf pack and hunt for rare resources.Īs with most additions to the Sims universe, the new races and their powers are presented cleanly and streamline with the rest of the game. Each race grants special powers and abilities for the Sim’s social life. Any human Sim can turn into either race with a little luck and some fetch questing. The main draws of Supernatural are the new playable “races” of werewolves and fairies. It’s just as arbitrary as and no more exciting than making your Sim become a doctor or a cop. There is some off-the-clock work to be done through special social interactions, but nothing even close to the depth of the professions introduced in Ambitions.

The career is one of the old-school “rabbit hole” types, so your Sim will disappear from the world while he’s at work. There is a single new career track, so you can have your Sims employed as a fortune teller along one of two branches: a legitimate all-knowing seer, or a scam artist who uses charming and manipulative words to win promotions. Supernatural starts with the obvious expansion stuff: new decorations, new clothes, new hairstyles, and so on. Throw in a dash of magic, and the virtual neighborhood is starting to resemble a regurgitated Harry Potter fanfic mixed with heavy doses of crazy. The Sims 3 has always had its share of strange denizens, from mummies introduced in World Adventures to vampires in Late Night, but now fairies, werewolves, and zombies are added to the mix. As you can probably tell by the title, the theme for The Sims 3: Supernatural, the latest Sims 3 expansion, is spooky stuff that goes “bump” in the night.

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