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Greetings and welcome to a video that's NOT an LGR Plays,
because I have decided to do a review of this,
and this being The Sims 3: Roaring Heights.
This is the latest store town to be released
on the Sims 3... store...
under the Towns section.
Though they call it a "world."
But technically, it's not a world, it's a town.
A "world" would be much larger.
Nomenclature aside, this is...
I've lost count. I don't know how many towns they've released
for The Sims 3 so far through the store.
But, man, there have been a lot of them,
and this is just as expensive as most of the other ones.
The normal one is available if you buy it for $20 USD
in the Standard Bundle which comes with the world
and 100 SimPoints.
Or you could get the Gold Bundle
which costs $35 USD, comes with the world,
1,900 SimPoints,
and the Boardwalk Attire item set.
And that is attire
that... can be worn anywhere
Not just the boardwalk.
Or under the boardwalk.
Out of the sun.
Under the boardwalk, we'll be having some fun...
Nope! It's just clothing.
And as you might be able to guess from some of these images, as well as–
Ooh, holy crap, video. Content ID be darned!
Yes, I'm still gonna show video!
Screw you guys at YouTube screwing all this crap up
and Google and whoever else... man!
Ahem, anyway,
this is... the town
that looks like this.
It's a city that is more or less like 1920s to 1940s
art deco-styled... stuff,
with a little bit of influence of
Los Angeles and maybe a bit of Miami
and Atlantic City in there, too.
Lots of funky colors and pastels and...
aw, yeah...
I like this! I like this a lot!
And there's a reason I wanted to review this
and didn't really wanna review the other ones,
and that is because this excites me.
You know what?
This is probably the most appealing town to have come out so far.
One of my favorite towns to have come with anything in The Sims 3
was the one that came with Late Night: Bridgeport.
And I was also a big fan of the user-made town Setra,
which is also very similar.
And this, well, yeah, it's kind of like those
with some new stuff added, and you know what?
I just think this is sweet!
I mean, look at this! Look at these buildings!
Look at these trees and all this stuff,
with the stuff everywhere all over that stuff. I mean this stuff
is nice or somethin'.
And just completely disregarding the price,
this aesthetically is 100 percent entirely worth it.
I'm just gonna go ahead and say it up front
just because of the look of this place. I love it.
The buildings look awesome,
these parks look awesome,
the streets look awesome,
the boardwalk kind of beachy area here
look frickin' awesome.
I mean, I just– I think this is cool.
That's all there is to it.
It may not be the biggest town, but you know what, it's–
it's actually pretty big!
There's 97 total lots:
35 commercial, 21 of them are empty,
and then you got 41 residential lots.
And of course if you were to pay even more
and pay for the $19 "related content" thing,
which would be the Boardwalk itself–
yes, this doesn't actually come with the Boardwalk; that kind of sucks–
and it can be placed anywhere, but it's made for this town specifically, yeah.
Anyway, it comes with– [moans]
all this friggin' awesomeness. I mean, roller coasters,
uh... well pretty much just roller coasters,
Just seeing Duke Nukem ride around in a roller coaster
being a doofus, that's fantastic.
[Duke voice] Riding rails of STEEL!
[normal voice] And I like roller coasters, and I miss Roller Coaster Tycoon
and Sim Theme Park and whatnot.
However, there are a few disappointing things about this. [chuckles]
Um, especially for $19. Uh...
Yeah, these merry-go-rounds are not merry-go-rounds at all.
They look like them, but they're not.
They're just bouncy horse things
that make a little bit of noise.
Nothin rotates, nothing happens.
It's really, really stupid.
And there's the roller coasters themselves
which, while you can *make* them,
eh, they're not exactly very involved in what you can do with them.
They pretty much just go at one speed.
The designs don't really seem to affect anything, except some basic animations.
And it's probably the clunkiest, least-intuitive
roller coaster creation I have ever seen in a game, period.
Now that's just due to the limitations of The Sims 3's
object placing... thing.
I mean, you could figure it out, but it's just, uh... eh...
It should not have taken me 15 minutes to make this coaster.
But it did.
That said, there's plenty of other stuff to enjoy here.
Uh, I mean, look at these freakin' houses.
Holy crap, this is cool!
It reminds me of... I dunno, of cool things.
Inside and out, the art deco design of these homes
and whatever else the modernist kind of thing is that's going on here is just awesome.
Another thing that you get that's pretty cool–
although, nyeh... whatever, it's okay–
is the classically cool fixer-upper car.
This is a car that looks like garbage at first,
and... well, it kind of is.
You just sort of click on it a bunch of times
and eventually it'll transform into a regular car.
So you can kinda role play being a dude from "Fast and Loud" or some crap like that.
Which is cool. I mean, I really, really, like fixing up older cars–
and honestly, I would love a game where you did nothing but that–
but this has no actual hands-on involvement.
You just click "Repair Engine" or "Repair the Body" and that's it.
Like, it'll be done after about one and a half Sim days
of constant work.
Still, though, its' cool that it's here,
and you can also now woohoo in the car.
And I approve!
And yeah, you can even do it when the car is just a completely rusted out piece of junk,
so you can get tetanus along with your crabs.
This is just great. They thought of everything.
And lastly–well, not exactly lastly–
but pretty much the last thing that I'm gonna be talking about
is the fact that it comes with clothes.
Not a ton.
Oh, yeah, it comes with hair, too.
You get, like, a hat for dudes
and some rather appropriate early 20th Century female hair.
Deck your Sims out in some flapper attire
and mobster clothing, and man,
prancing around this town, they look like they mean some business.
Some serious noir stuff up in here.
I think it's awesome!
Except for one little, tiny, minor issue,
and that is the fact that everything else in the game
doesn't really fit. [laughs]
It looks really out of place as a result.
Everything else just seems, like, really anachronistic.
And I guess that's just kind of how it goes.
But it's really weird when you're in, like, a really cool, neon-lit art deco bar,
and you go downstairs and there's a guy on his laptop
playing Burnout: Paradise.
If it really bothers me that much, I guess I could just mod out the stuff that's a little bit anachronistic.
But you know, whatever. I'm not inclined to do that
because I don't care enough.
And honestly, the town is more than enjoyable enough for me to get a real kick out of it.
However, as always, the price is insane!
So, I would completely recommend it, except for... the cost, heh heh.
So if you don't mind paying as much for this
as you would for an entire expansion, and actually MORE
if you include the Boardwalk pack with it,
then, yeah, go ahead and grab it.
Otherwise, just wait for a sale or something on Origin,
or maybe it'll come out in a store eventually.
Either way, definitely check this one out.
And screw YouTube's stupid policies right now
because I'm really wary of this video getting flagged for copyright crap.
But you know what?
I like doing these videos. I'm gonna keep making them.
And thank you all for watching.
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