The Sims 3 Late Night Expansion Pack Gives Players VIP Treatment In A Dynamic Urban Setting Filled with High Rise Homes, Parties, Celebrities, Bars…and Even Vampires!
GUILDFORD, UK., July 20, 2010 – The Sims players will soon have a reason to stay out late on the town! The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced The SimsTM 3 Late Night Expansion pack* is in development and will hit store shelves worldwide this fall. The newest expansion to The Sims 3, the best-selling PC game of 2009**, The Sims 3 Late Night gives players all-access and lets them loose on a vibrant, active downtown scene where they’ll rub elbows with celebrities at the hottest parties, hit the local bar after work, tour the scene with their Sims’ band, kick back in a plush hot tub, and discover what’s lurking as the lights go out and adventure begins after dark.
“The community has been very vocal about unleashing their Sims in more interesting and unpredictable social situations,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio at EA. “The Sims 3 Late Night is full of ways to approach a rich, new life beyond a Sims’ normal day, such as schmoozing with celebrities on the rooftop of a skyscraper, wooing the crowd with your Sim’s band, or being the best bartender in town at the hottest new lounge.”
Players will be able to take their Sims into the bustling urban setting where they’ll be able to become a local celebrity, member of a music band, mixologist, director, and more. To gain entrance into the most elite clubs in town, players need to keep their attitude in check otherwise they’ll be given the cold shoulder by tough bouncers or find another way onto the list. If chilling is the player’s forte, their Sims can lounge at a chic club or dive bar or if they like to live on the edge, they can discover the secret of becoming a vampire. Whether embarking on a new career, painting the town red, or throwing a party on the rooftop of a penthouse, it’s always up to the player to tell their unique stories with The Sims 3. What will happen when the lights go out and Sims get all access?
For more information about The Sims 3 Late Night or The Sims 3, please visit www.TheSims3.com. Developed by The Sims Studio, The Sims 3 Late Night for PC/Mac has not yet been rated by PEGI. Join more than one million The Sims fans on Facebook by visiting the official fansite page for The Sims 3 at http://www.facebook.com/TheSims3. To download artwork, please visit www.electronicarts.co.uk/press.
*Requires The Sims 3 for PC/MAC to play.
**In North America and Europe according to NPD data, Chart-track UK, Gfk France, Gfk Spain, Gfk-MCC Germany and EA internal estimate.
Woohoo! I’m super excited! Thank you, EA! I finally get my urban fix! They are bringing back things that I asked for: a piano, a nightclub, bartenders, hot tubs, and of course as a creature favorite, vampire. And the list goes on! I wonder what the pent house will be like? Perhaps like an apartment? Or maybe there will be hotels?
Now this sounds EXACTLY like what I have been waiting for! YES! I’m super excited too!
I know, right? I have never been this excited about an EP since Apartment Life for Sims 2. Granted, WA and AMB are not bad EP’s and they do add useful things to the game, but I just know that LN will murder them in my opinion. I can’t wait to see more of the new downtown location. Anyone else saw the new bridge and the skyscrapers? 🙂
I’m in the same boat haha. It’s what I’ve been begging for since TS3 came out. It’s always lacked things to do as well as social elements and this is the perfect remedy. Hope it has apartments, but they haven’t mentioned it anywhere at the moment.
Well, it said penthouses but that only celebrities and well-known Sims can live in them (I smell a future hack for that, lol). What I want to know is if these new penthouses will act like apartments or hotels. I hope that an apartment system will be implemented, even if there is no landlord/lady NPC. All they can do is just have a special door lock to make some kind of apartment system and you’d still pay your bill as normal. Perhaps the rent will be higher in downtown to mimic a sort of New York appeal. If there are no apartments, it’s fine, but apartments do add to this theme, especially because they are big in urban settings. We shall see!
I would love apartments! Yes frankie, I noticed the bridge and skyscrapers. I really, really hope that we will be able to take our sims inside of them but I’m thinking that may be a bit much to hope for. We’ll probably only get rooftop access but that could be kind of cool. I also agree about WA and AMB, they aren’t bad but I think they would have been better if they were released closer to the end of the series. I got so bored with my Sims in about a month after TS came out because there just wasn’t anything to do and both of those expansions were cool when I first got them but I was finisihed and bored of them both in less than a week. This looks like it will add all sorts of things I can be excited about! Are they getting new skins or are they using CC on the shirtless guy that’s dancing? Because that doesn’t look like the default skin to me.
pardon my language… but FOOK YEAH!!!
Dang typos . . . I meant I got bored about a month after TS3 came out . . .
Chris, that’s exactly what i wondered, too, about the skin. Then again, EA is known to rely heavily on photoshopping for most promo screen shots. 😉 Also, in the following screen shot, notice how those buildings sure do look like apartments? Perhaps we will get apartments or maybe we will get apartment rabbit holes?
http://www.thesims3.com/content/global/images/ep3/ep3_street_piano.jpg
I have a feeling that this is going to be a huge seller for Sims 3 because from the comments at other sites, this theme seems to be more requested than what we got with WA and AMB.
I really believe this will be HUGE too. I think this is what a lot of players have been waiting for and I will not be surprised if it surpasses WA and AMB. Thanks for posting the pic frankie but I can’t see it right now, I’m at work and they have the sims site blocked.
That’s okay. Apparently, Jud posted all 5 pics in another post, so you can check them out there when you can. 🙂
YAY! Hot tubs!
And vampires, of course! 🙂
Skin tone wise, I think they’ve either updated the default one, or added a new one. Either way, I don’t think it’s been Photoshopped because the trailer shows it as well. They’ve obviously done it so muscles look more defined since there wasn’t much (if any) difference in skin tone previously. And is it me, or are her boobs bigger? I know they won’t add that feature in the game (there’s mods for it anyway), but they do look different. Might be just the altered skin tone though.
Skyscraper wise, I’m thinking they’re purely for decoration except I think they’ll have a flat roof in which we’ll be able to build penthouses on. That’s what it sounded like Rod Humble was getting at in the Showcase anyway. I would love for there to be working apartments, but I don’t think we’ll be getting them.
And yay for hot tubs! Haha
Hehe, Chris, wonder why they blocked “TheSims3.Com” website.
Which is kind of unusual.. too much Sims addicted working there? 😀
I hope, and really, hope, those are REAL apartments.
But since EA have a thing to let us down, I will not get my hopes high right now…
Well, there is speculation about possible body sliders because those breasts are huge, lol. I hope so! Maybe the muscles will be overlay like freckles and moles?
At the hottube picture, did you noticed the stairs there?
There’s only one step.
Owen, they block any site that has to do with gaming so it’s not just the sims. As far as I know, I’m the only with that addiction there. At least I am the only one in the group of people I talk to. As for the skin and the boobs on the sims, I really, REALLY hope that they have updated them. It would be so awesome to make sims that can stand out from the rest of them. The default skins do suck so bad. I also noticed the steps to the hot tub. I’m wondering if that entire platform is what the hot tub will be or if we will be able to place just the hot tub on any flat surface like we could in TS2. I really hope that we will be able to place it anywhere and that it’s not always going to be on that platform thingy.
Oh yeah, and are those subways??? Are we getting a subway system? I’m sure that if it works it will be like a rabbit hole type of thing but I think that will still be cool if they can use a subway!!!!WOOT! I’m so freaking excited!!!!
Awesome!!
I’m very excited about this EP…the video looked great! Here’s hoping for kewl Vampires, extra body sliders, enhanced social interactions! YAY!! 😀
That’s what I wondered, Chris; it really looked like a subway! :O
This new expansion sounds interesting. I might get it. I have not gotten the two expansions. Looks like the “special” expansions which are Seasons and Pets are saved for later, which make sense. I don’t mind waiting:)
Looks like there’s a bus stop and a subway station entrance in the pic with the band playing on the street.. wonder if they’ll put in subways….
And ya I noticed the platform where the hot tub is sitting.. 1 step.. we getting stages back ??!?!
I so need this EP.
I really hope that is a 1-step deck thing, rather than just some form of building trickery they’ve used to make it look like it is. I hope if it is real (the handrail suggests it probably is), I hope we can use it inside houses without having to cheat or whatever since I’ve always wanted to be able to make slightly raised areas in my houses, like having an open plan apartment and having the dinning area slightly raised up from the rest of the room.
Oh and the water in the pool now has reflections which is kind of neat. I just hope they’ve fixed the refraction so it only affects things underneath the surface, not simply in front of the surface…
Awesome. we get the vampires back. and I think Superstar EP, right with the addition of being a celebrity and director and such…
I saw a subway station!
Im so excited! Ive never been this excited. Sims in sunset valley are always in their house at night but now its even better, you can stay up all nights, meet ACTORS (finally a career) and hve PENTHOUSE! WOOOO HOOOOOO! I just cant wait.
hi, i’m french and i don’t speak english very well, i dont understand everything and i had learn that it could have undead on a site , can you tell me if it’s true or false
so good night 🙂
it seems like the walking streets are getting wider too!!
holy crap! this looks awesome!
I cant wait!
It is kinda ironic how this compares to the sims 2 apartment life and night life.but the cool thing is there put toghether and people that have macs can play it!
holy crap did you see those freaking skyscrapers! and that huge bridge and thats cool if there is a actuall subway!
I hope we do have apartments but EA has a thing for disappointing us, so I bet they probably won’t have apartments, which would fit in great with this ep. But I’m still excited and I already asked my husband 2 buy it 4 me…and he said he would so I can’t wait until oct. 26!!!
hi! well i can’t wait for it!!!!!!! but i also have a really bad feeling about the apartment thing : ( please EA don’t let us down please don’t disappoint us : ]
im so geting this …. oh i cant wait …. i bet no1 can 😀
The sims 3 Late Night is nice !!!!! EA done a great job Gold strars!!!!