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This is technological discrimination!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 23
Date: August 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WHY is The Sims Hot Date the newest, coolest, most popular new Sims expansion for Apple, when, to PC users, Vacation is old news and Unleashed is dead ahead? Anyone? I didn't think so. Apple is THE computer of the future, and it's not fair that we Mac users have to wait MONTHS for the best games, and when they (the games) DO come out, there are always technical problems. Hot Date, Civilization 3, Sim Theme Park and Black and White are some of the technologically demanding games that will force you to download patches, crash your computer, and make you spend hours on installation.

Beware if you have an older system

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Beware--despite the fact that my computer apparently met the system requirements for this software, it crashed my computer upon installation and I had to pay a repairman ... to restore my system. I've since heard that other people have had similar problems with this software--but when I called Aspyr for technical support (before calling the repairman in desperation) they said they'd never heard of such a thing--it must be a coincidence (!).

Sims Hot Date [Stinks]!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: May 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Sims Hot Date is really bad, you can barley do anything, i basiclly fell asleep playing it. You go into town, so what!
It still [stinks]!!! Any one that would ever play this game needs serious help, because this game is definatley a sleeper!

The application "The Sims Hot Date" has unexpectedly quit...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm not going to bombard you with a bunch of techinical junk you won't understand, but I have an Apple that's newer than the game, and I can't play for five minutes without a crash. The Buy and Build modes usually work fine, as long as you're not using the new Downtown feature. If you start the Live mode, however, it will "unexpectedly quit" before you've played two minutes. DON'T BUY THIS GAME! Sorry, Amazon.com, but Apple users should stick with house party. I would have given this one star, but it's an excellent concept, and, theoretically, you could play for hours.

Downtown not all it's cracked up to be

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: December 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Pro's and Cons for Hot date:
Pros:
New Social Interations - lots of kissing, hugging, cuddling etc..
Ways for the Sims to get out of the house is definitely a bonus, and it's also stupid that they couldn't leave the house in the first place!!
New Hot Tub, and other items to help with dating, like buying items at the mall though they are very limited - roses, jewelry, swimwear, lingerie, and formal wear, candy and teddy bears.
Yoou don't lose time while downtown, you can go at 7:00 pm and stay all night and when you arrive back home it is still 7 pm, even if your Sims are falling down with exhaustion.

Con's
The downtown area is very slow, even slower the more characters you have in your game.
It's harder to make friends and keep them.
Your energy levels seem to disapear a lot faster while downtown.
I tried to make an Espresso bar for downtown to help with this problem but the Espresso machine is not available in downtown creation. nor is the coffee machine.
I have lost newly created businesses for downtown, every time I create them even though I saved them, I have made changes to existing businesses and the park and they won't be there for a while and then suddenly turn up a week later??
The people you take downtown with you don't seem to be able to go to the bathroom on thier own, you have to go in order for them to.

I Loved the original Sims when I bought it and got hot date because it seemed to be the one that offered the most social interations, but I think Livin Large would have been the better investment.

Fun but hard to find a date

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite fun! You are able to do the most stuff with it. It is the first time that Aspyr came up with the concept to get the Sims 'out of the house'.
However, I have played this game for hours on end and still haven't been able to get a loving relationship. Its quite hard. Maybe I am doing something wrong.

Fun, but crashes a lot.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After I loaded this game onto my computer, I only had it up and running a few minutes before it crashed the first time. I still am bothered with crashes pretty regularly. These take all of the usual forms:freeze crashes, application unexpectedly quit crashes and "stuck record" crashes. There is nothing in particular that seems to bring them on. It just crashes. I don't know if the EA website had patches to fix any of the bugs at this point or not.

On the other hand, the game is a lot of fun and has some nifty additions from the earlier versions of the game. Your Sims are able to interact in more natural and more varied ways than in the past. Also, there are some new toys (like a new hot tub) which allow more fun options for your Sims.

It is a lot of fun to build shopping centers, parks and restaurants and other gathering places for the Sims. The game is pretty is intuitive and it is easy to catch on the the new changes from earlier editions.

All things taken into consideration: have fun watching your Sims explore their romantic side. Just back up a lot.

Memory Hog

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Neat idea - get the Sims out of their houses and have them interact. The only problem? This is a HUGE memory hog! It's fun but make sure you have enough free memory to run this.

Hot Date has a lot of up's and down's..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 27 / 28
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First, I think my rating is more like 3.5 stars, not 4. But figured to round up anyway.

I loved the Sims original game, loved the At Large expansion pack and was thrilled when I first heard about Hot Date. But after purchasing and playing with it for several weeks, I'm starting to have my doubts with this particular expansion pack. Obviously the best part is for the Sims to go Downtown. That is pretty much tbe bang-of-the-buck for this game and yes, brings a whole new level of play into the Sims.

The benefits of Downtown:

1.) You can create your own shopping boutique, ice cream/pizza/fun parlor, restaurant, park, dance or disco, that type of thing. If you love building things and putting together the furniture, painting the walls, etc. like me, you'll be VERY happy with this and can build all day if you'd like.

2.) The downtown already created by Aspyr is pretty nice, they are very thorough and detailed down to the public restroom so there's a lot to see, do and socialize among other Sims. It's visually appealing.

3.) Freely interacting with so many other Sim-citizens, and a number of them aren't even in your neighborhood (so spare you the time to manually invite them to a party at your home). Which is great if you need to gain friends to advance your career.

4.) You have new furniture (eg: love hot tub), building options and characters to choose from with the addition of Hot Date. You also have more commands between Sims now because the goal is to find a potential mate (new kissing, cuddling, fighting, conversation options).

BUT... here I think are the drawbacks from the game.

1.) I have a G4 with lots of RAM so it's pretty good in loading programs. However, Sims Hot Date stalls and chugs like crazy when you are going downtown, especially if you have a lot of Sims. It's very distracting and prevents you from really having a good time playing or having that "Sims experience."

2.) You cannot build anything else other than dating-intended businesses or places for your Sims. Maybe this is a lame statement from me since the point of the game IS to find romance and land a mate, but the quest of dating gets boring rather quickly... (like you can only buy lingerie, teddy bears or flowers...ugh) There is a number of objects you can't put in your downtown business for some reason as well.

3.) Your Sims become a LOT more testy and harder to "match up" after installing Hot Date. This is no joke. It's like 2 or 3 times harder to have the Sims love each other, even more for them to marry. Pretty discouraging if that's what this pack is supposed to be about.

4.) Your Sims can't, repeat CAN'T stay overnight in downtown. No hotels are available. So yes, they will eventually get burned out, lose energy/comfort points. And I notice even if you have a couple of Sims go together to Downtown, you can only control one of them when you get there. (unless I'm an isolated case?)

Anyway, hope that this review was honest enough for you. I still enjoy it for the additions it brings in the buildings and furniture, but otherwise I think it may be better to get the other expansion packs instead (Livin' Large or Unleashed). And either way, make sure you have tons of memory.

Ready for a hot date?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Sims hot date is probably by far the best Sims game ever!
On all the other Sims the only thing you could do was build houses, make friends, and throw parties. Sure that's all great but dn't you get tired of the same thing every time you play? Well in the Sims Hot Date you can take your Sims downtown! You can make shopping malls, parks,and restaurants etc. This game is almost as exciting as the very first Sims!

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