EA Games confirmed Ambitions on March 4 2010.^[2]

The Sims 3: Ambitions is also available for feature phones iPhone and iPod touch.^[3] There are new features such as babies and being able to fully edit your home.

A free patch for The Sims 3 was released on May 28 2010. It introduced tattoos and other updates to the base game.^[4] The new Create a Pattern tool is a free download just like the Create a World tool and was released on June 23 2010.^[5]

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The Sims 3: Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. While on the job the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. Players can opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients. Be the heroic firefighter tackling raging infernos or smashing everything in sight at the victim’s home with an axe; take a shot at solving cases as an investigator nicely convincing sources to divulge secrets or roughing up perpetrators in a dark alley to get information.

Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. In The Sims 3: Ambitions players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. Additionally players will be able to change the look and feel of their town by becoming an architect and directly affecting the neighborhood around them leveraging Build and Buy mode. The stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbors in fashionable or catastrophic ways. For the first time players will be in charge of how their Sims’ career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs climb to the top quickly or be a slacker. The future of a Sims’ success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.

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• New town: Twinbrook^[6]
• New creature: SimBot ^[7] A SimBot is created by Sims with a high Inventing skill with an opportunity. As well as Inventing SimBots players can purchase them with 40000 Lifetime Happiness points.^[8]
• New mode: Renovation Mode is a variation of Build and Buy Modes and used by the architect to remodel for clients^[9]
• New Build mode abilities: modify the pitch of individual roof sections and add multistory columns.^[7]
• New CAS clothes and hairstyles for female and male sims.
• 3 new skills:
  • Sculpting: Sims can create sculptures out of ice metal clay and wood with another Sim posing for them^[7] (Previously seen in The Sims: Bustin' Out).
  • Inventing: There seems to be a wide variety of inventions. Servos are back as SimBots along with a time machine. Sims get scraps for inventions from junkyards a new type of lot or by blowing things up or simply just buying scrap.^[7]
  • Tattooing: Players are taken to the tattoo editor where they can choose tattoos with up to five layers modify their colors change the size modify the opacity and select where to place it: upper lower or full back neck ankle chest stomach wrist shoulder bicep or forearm.^[9] (Previously seen in The Urbz: Sims in the City and The Sims 2 for PS2/Xbox and Gamecube). Tattooing is a hidden skill.
• Careers & professions
  • 5 new professions: architectural designer firefighter ghosthunter investigator stylist.
  • New career track education^[8] and new features added to the existing medicine career track
  • Sims can become self-employed by going to the city hall after gaining one skill point in a skill career.
  • Control Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job. According to a member of The Sims 3 staff Sims will even be able to manage their careers to an extent while the player is not controlling them. "Every career has responsibilities and its own active jobs. Each active job will require [the player's] full attention but there are still options that allow [the player's] Sim to progress and level up while not controlling them."^[10]
  • On-the-job choices now change the town and affect other Sims as well. Players modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.
• New lifetime wishes:
  • Home Design Hotshot (Earn 100 top scores for jobs in the Architectural Design profession)
  • Descendant of da Vinci (master painting sculpting and inventing)
  • Fashion Phenomenon (Reach level 10 in the Stylist profession)^[11]
  • Firefighter Super Hero (Save 30 lives on the job) Paranormal Profiteer (Reach level 10 in the Ghost Hunter profession)
  • Pervasive Private Eye (Solve 35 cases on the job) Monster Maker (Create 3 Monsters)^[12]

• New Lifetime rewards:
  • Fireproof your home
  • Career cash booster^[12]
  • Artisan crafter (boosts value of invented/sculpted items) ^[11]
  • Professional Simolean Booster
  • Efficient Inventor
  • Entrepreneurial Mindset Suave Seller
  • Fireproof Homestead
  • My Best Friend

• Earthquakes have been added to the game.

• Child sims can run bake sales to make money.^[13]
• New objects: fire engine vehicle personal fire extinguisher^[14] detonation packs tattoo chair^[7] lockpicking kit^[12] trampoline and Gnubb set. Collect scrap from the junkyard and broken objects for inventing^[7]
• New upgrades^[14]
• six new traits: Savvy Sculptor Eccentric Dramatic Eco-Friendly^[15] Perceptive^[12] and Born Salesman/Saleswoman.^[8]
• Addition of the consignment shop as a place for Sims to sell their own items (collectibles sculptures etc.)^[16]
• Ability to register at City Hall to be self employed in a "Skill Career" for the following skills: writing painting sculpting inventing photography nectar making gardening and fishing.^[16]
• Overhauled real-estate system that lets the player purchase and upgrade any community lot building.^[16]
• New laundry system. It gives Sims a good moodlet. There are washers and dryers available including one dryer that has a special "surprise."^[6]
• New Death: death by meteor.^[17][5]
• New vehicle type: Motorcycle
• Messages that appear on the right side of the screen are more organized.
• New lots including the consignment store junkyard bar laundromat and fire station.^[18]
• New songs

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In May 2010 leaked images of Ambitions surfaced allegedly through a Russian journalist breaching disclosure policies. These images were distributed more widely by the Brazilian fan website O Sim BR.net.^[19] The legal ramifications of republishing these images is currently unknown. The images show a clear overhead view of Twinbrook confirming it as the town in the second trailer (Iron Man parody). They also show an explosion at a junkyard the inside of a salon a secret agent in 'disguise' a Sim at a drafting board several new hair styles applying tattoos a clothes line and a new motorbike.

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• While Ambitions contains elements from Open for Business it is not possible for the player to run their own business in the same style. ^[7]
• Existing careers except the Medical career are not enhanced and their career buildings remain rabbit holes.^[20]
• The town seen in the first video trailer is Riverview and the town seen in the second trailer (Iron Man parody) is the new town of Twinbrook.
• EA have announced that Rise Against Lady Antebellum Charice and more have their songs recorded in Simlish featured in game. [1]
• The Sims 3: Ambitions Commemorative/Collector's Edition also features a premium 48-page hard-backed 10th Anniversary book wall poster sketch book ‘Build your own Plumbob’ and a digital asset card. It may only be available in Europe[2] and Asia.[3]. The 10th Anniversary book is also available with other games.[4]
• On May 27 The Sims 3: Ambitions went gold.^[21] The following day fans started to receive their copies early.
• Ambitions is included in The Sims 3 Deluxe along with the base game.

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Original cover

Sculptor

Firefighter

Firefighter on duty.

Inventor

Ghosthunter

Ghosthunting

Inventing

Stylist

Tattoo Artist

Architect

Doctor

Private investigator

Firefighting

Colored SimBot

Junkyard lot

An Inventor running away from an explosion

A Meteor impact!

A dubious doctor administers therapy.

Flame-themed tattoo parlour.

A Ghosthunter

An inventor and a Sim Bot

New Mysterious Gnomes From The Sims 3 Ambitions

Changing A Sim's Look In The Stylist Career

An inventor is inventing something

Firefighters in a burning house

Private Investigator Stake-Out

Simbot smashing objecs

Sim riding a motorbike

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External links Return to the directory »

• The Sims 3: Ambitions on TheSims3.com
• Carl's Sims 3 Ambitions Guide/Features Overview

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