This is just a small video from EA that should finally make you want buy all stuff packs available.

Have you seen these already? Oh gosh, I love these artworks! I’ve never been too much into cars, but I always think about which car to buy to my Sims, because they can reflect their personalities so perfectly. The new pin-up theme and glamurous 50′s seem like a good idea to me. I’m definitelly getting this stuff pack, although probably not right off. Perhaps when new expansion pack will come out, which I think will be close before Christmas this year.

BTW any thoughts of what the next EP might be? I cross my fingers for pets. Seriously, I’ve never missed them that much in the previous games, now my ‘hoods look so empty without them.

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Thank you guys for reminding me I had to update the no-mosaic hack to make the objects in TS3 HELS work properly. The aquarium, lights and bubble bath work now as they should. In fact, I didn’t even know that the wall lights had some sort of hi-fi-looking backlight. Oh. For some reason, I wish there was no such thing (without it, the light are so much more versatile), but I guess it’s okay for the house I built — it has a wired hi-fi (I upgraded the hi-fi station) and it’s very modern. Anyway, thanks again and take a look at the nicely working stuff.

There it is, my copy of The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff has arrived this Monday and I’m finally reviewing it for you. It has really seemed like there would be a few problems with it, but everything has cleared up eventually. But let’s start from the beginning.

I was very surprised to find out that I couldn’t choose the language while installing the game. For some reason, the installer chose Czech language for me as a default (I wouldn’t mind, because I understand it) but the biggest surprise was to find the icon on my desktop to be in the Czech language, too. I was so damn scared the game wouldn’t be in English. After running it, it went back ‘to normal’ and everything is English. Phew!

I suppose the language was based on my IP address. I’m letting you know just in case you bought it from somewhere else (like I did from the USA) and suddenly the language was differend. Now let’s move on to the stuff pack as such.

So, the theme is stuff for geeks, modern furniture and slightly industrial look. I like to have all kinds of furniture in my game, because all my Sims are different and I furnish their houses on the basis of what they are like. Having a few geeks keen on playing video games and watching TV all day, this stuff pack makes the perfect furniture for them.

I haven’t really counted how many new objects are in the game, but all in all there are new objects to fully furnish a bedroom, living room, bathroom, study room with hobby objects, plus new deco objects. It’s a bit shame they didn’t include anything for the kitchen. They’re all very modern and some of them have LED lighting. It can’t be removed or recolored, which is a pity, too, but I don’t seem to mind very much. All lights in the game are set to light blue as well, which is a little annoying but you can always change the color of lighting in the game, so in the end it’s not that bad.

I’ve decided to re-decorate on of the original lots from Sunset Valley. I think Maxis tried to build the lot in modern style, but they completely failed at furnishing it. Here comes my attempt at making it nicer. (Although I’m not really done with the landscaping.)

Here’s the living room. The new objects are the sofa, living chair, video game console, coffee table, TV, dresser, stairs, painting (right behind the stairs) and the pile of CDs on the coffee table. Looks neat, huh?

Here’s the new hi-fi station and some sort of wall decoration. Looks like pixels, but bigger. The CD shelf is custom content, it’s not included. You can also see the new aquarium. Unfortunatelly, this object doesn’t work — there should be fish in there, but they don’t appear for some reason. They really could make it work…

The living chair, the ceiling light and the phone on the kitchen counter are new, too.

I especially wanted to highlight the new double-door. Isn’t it amazing? I love it!

Welcome to the study & hobbies room. Only geeks allowed. Here’s the new computer, desks, chairs, bookcases,

Here’s the new floor lamp. It looks very nice with the light blue lighting, but it’s the only lamp I kept the default color of light.

I love the new bookcases. They’re just amazing.

The new technologies will make your Sims fit.

The bathroom is my favorite room in the house. Well, not really, but it’s really close to it. The bathtub is amazing. It reminds me of the one we used to have in The Sims 1. It has three slots for decor objects, plus a plastic duck and bubble bath can be placed on it. Unfortunatelly, it’s not working properly — there are no bubbles when taking a bubble bath. I really hate this fact.

The lights and the sink are new. I wish there was a new mirror, but it’s from the base game.

I really like the new shower, because unlike the other one it’s not round and the toilet is new as well.

In the bedrom, you can see the new bed, end tables, alarm clock and dresser.

There’s also an electronic guitar. Another great object, because I really missed one. I like the acoustic guitar, but I like diversity, too.

Not the best picture, but you can see the guitar ‘painting’ in the background.

And now I thought of the fact that I totally forgot to take some pictures from Create a Sim. Oh snap! Maybe next time, guys. But I remember there were a few nice bob hairstyles for females and some very useful hairs for guys, too. The clothes look quite sci-fi, but I think they’re still wearable.

All in all, the new stuff pack is pretty fine. I’m a little annoyed that the aquarium and the bath don’t work as they should. They really could test the objects better, it’s not like there are 300 of them, right? Right. Otherwise, I like pretty much everything. If you like geek and modern stuff, you’re going to like this new stuff pack and I can only recommend it.

But the great news is that at least Amazon UK sells the game. The funny thing about it? It’s even cheaper than in the USA. Not much, but a little.

So I was thinking I might start buying new expansion packs and stuff packs from Amazon UK. I’ve just never stumbled upon this little thing: does it matter what language/version of the game I buy? I mean, will the US copies of TS3 and TS3 World Adventures I already bought be compatible with the British version of TS3 Design and Hi-Tech Stuff (that’s how the new SP is called in the UK)? I suppose yes, but if you know something more, please, let me know in the comments.

Amazon UK also sells the retail cards for The Sims 3 Store. I know the stuff in the store is terribly expensive, but oh shoot, some of the sets are so nice!

Anyways, I need to work on my budget, I’m not buying everything just yet. But after all, there’s a lot of time for everything and I plan to buy the new stuff pack with next expansion pack anyway. I suppose it should be out in July or so, hopefully after my exams.

Oh imagine that now you can have such geeks like Sheldon and Leonard from The Big Bang theory in your game.

Oh and here are some great pre-order gifts you can get from Play.com (UK — the CD record) and from Gamesload.de (the other two objects). I hope someone will share them with the rest of us who will pre-order from other stores.

Via: Infinite Sims

Via: Infinite Sims

Well, I know that not everyone has a credit card (poor kids), but I don’t like to hear this for one thing: I just don’t like installing so many The Sims game anymore (and I do like physical copies). I hope the objects will be available at The Sims 3 Store, but if there will be new interactions, I’m not sure if they will be included. *sigh*

The new picture from World Adventures: