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London specifically, was a place of

a Traveller’s pack would be ideal.

great social growth and upheaval,

You could travel the Sims world

it’s the perfect place for a Sim

with your own customised caravan,

to go about their daily routine.

horse and family, stopping off to

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set-up fairs with bearded ladies and

the Redeem code: “I-LOVE-THE-SIMS”

Of course, that routine would

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probably be dominated by 15 hour

lucky heather. Again, I suppose EA

work days, mainly spent shovelling

would be afraid of offending a sub-

coal, and a serious lack of recreation

section of society, but who doesn’t

and various other add-ons have

time. Those Sims would be the lucky

love old fashioned Gypsies? Apart

granted the ability to explore and

ones too, they’d actually make it

from superstitious people and,

live in entirely new locations. So

past their sixth birthday unlike the

erm, mainland Europe, of course.

the DNA is there. Of course, we’re

millions of hapless Sims whose
overseers were too busy fetching

SPACE/MOON:

maybe this isn’t such a great idea.

TRAVELLERS:

sort here, it’d be a bit tricky to play
The Sims if every Sim involved had

a snack to notice them catching
cholera. On second thoughts,

talking about life in a biome of some

Now we’re not saying there

to wear spacesuits permanently

need to be martians or crazy alien

and had living space the size of

technology items, but it would be
really cool to see an expansion
based on interstellar exploration.

a plane cockpit.

LIFE OF
CRIME:

OK, this one has legs. First off,

If not a spaceship version of

we’re not talking about the modern

the previous Traveller idea,

‘travellers’ who have a tendency

then at least a Moon base

to defy their own name and not

expansion. Complete

actually travel anywhere, we’re

with anti-gravity,

talking about the proper Romani

Moon-Cow

Gypsies with horse drawn caravans

ice cream

raising a

and all that jazz. The Sims has

and endless

Sim family

largely been a game about being

numbers of

situated and staying in one place for

national flags

bred to be

a very, very long period of time - I

that don’t blow

the greatest

bet most people build a house for

in the wind.

Now this
would be
awesome.
Imagine

specifically

criminals of all

their Sim and expect them to live

The Into the Future

time! Like the

in it for their ENTIRE LIFETIME.

expansion for The Sims

Incredibles, but

An estate agent expansion
doesn’t sound particularly fun, so
The Sims 4 Special Edition

3 dabbled in themes

super evil, the...

concerning space travel,

Awfuls. Except

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