Players modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist. On-the-job choices now change the town and affect other Sims as well.
Each active job will require full attention, but there are still options that allow Sim to progress and level up while not controlling them." "Every career has responsibilities and its own active jobs. 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. Control Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job.The skill careers are fishing, gardening, painting, writing, nectar making, photography, inventing and sculpting. Sims can become self-employed by registering at the city hall after gaining one skill point in a skill career.New career track, education and new features added to the existing medicine career track.New type of job - professions: Architectural Designer, Firefighter, Ghost Hunter, Investigator, and Stylist.(Previously seen in The Urbz: Sims in the City and The Sims 2 for PS2/Xbox and GameCube). 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.Sims get scraps for inventions from junkyards, a new type of lot, or by blowing things up, or simply just buying scrap. Servos are back as SimBots, along with a time machine.
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 stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbors in fashionable or catastrophic ways. 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. 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. Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. 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 opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients.
While on the job, the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. 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. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or roughing up a suspect for information? Will they walk the runways as a fashion diva with exhilarating and swanky style? Their future is entirely in your hands! Game Summary
Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change your town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. With The Sims 3: Ambitions, decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero, cause loads of mischief among their neighbors, or give some style advice. Widen your Sim's horizons with a bunch of killer career opportunities. Imagine a world where you can make your Sim anything they want to be.