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Can chug at times, but still loads of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: December 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This expansion pack dropped me right back into the wonderful world of SIMS addiction. You think you're past it and then they give you a downtown and more iteractions and before you know it, it is 3 AM and you are still going. Part of me wants to hug the programmers, while the other part wants to kick them for creating such a cool, addictive game.

Much like houseparty, the graphics can chug a little when you have a bunch of SIMS around. This mainly happens when you are downtown at a happening joint or if you throw a party.

For parents out there, there is a strong sexual theme to this game and any internet savy child can download naughty skins. Very, very limited violence, if any, depending on your iteractions. Do keep in mind that SIMS date and mate, with the latter not occuring in plain view. The good news is that you won't have to explain where babies come from after they play this game.

You might want to look for a SIMS 12-step program prior to purchasing. Enjoy!

Romancing the Sim!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 19
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As I say with all Sims expansion packs so far.. this one is GREAT! It's a fun addition, full of new stuff, new interactions.. everything your Sim needs to get the apple of his eye to gaze upon him with adoration.

With this expansion, you get a downtown area to go to. The downtown is full of shops and restaurants your Sims can visit to have a good time. In the shops, you can try on and buy new pajamas or evening wear for your Sim (or his/her date!)! ANd the coolest thing is that if you buy new PJs, your Sim will be wearing them next time he/she slips in to bed. :D Also, buying new clothes for a date reallly impresses them. Sims are very materialistic creatures.

Also in the shops you can buy chocolate, flowers, teddy bears and jewelry and give them to your significant other as a present - which is sure to gain brownie points. Like I said.. Sims love stuff! There are also magazine racks where you can buy magazines -> these have the added benefit of helping your Sim gain new interests. So if your Sim beauty is trying to impress a certain someone with her sports knowledge, reading the magazine can help!

You also get your choice of fine restaurants.. anywhere from a greasy diner type to fine dining with mood music courtesy of a pianist. While eating, there are tons of new interactions - including my favorite: Cuddle! Plus, while your Sims are cuddling up in a booth they can take it a step farther if they're daring and give their sweetheart a smooch (or maybe an all-out makeout session?). Just watch out for the old crone...she frowns heavily upon public displays of affection.

There are some new items for at home too - including the cream of the crop - a love bed! Your Sims can have a little fun in the heart-shaped love bed, but beware the consequences (hint hint accidental baby hint hint).

This is one of my favorite expansion packs - I always enjoyed the relationship aspect of my Sims.. getting one Sim to fall in love with another. It's the reason I play the game! I highly recommend this expansion pack - you won't regret it. And that nerdy Sim who needs a little boost to his love life will thank you as well!

The Date to Die for?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 54 / 79
Date: September 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The first question I will ask in this review is: 'Is the Sims more of an adult game... or is it aimed at kids too?' I love the Sims and I'm 12 - as are quite a lot of other sims fans I know. Adults like the game - there's no doubt there! But kids ADORE it! If The Sims was good, Livin' it up'gave it loads of excitment and fun and house party was EXCELLENT... then what more can I say about Hot Date: the 3rd expansion pack in the series? Simply this: Hot Date's smooth gameplay and excellent new opportunities make it seem as though it is an entirely new game altogether! You may think to yourselves... 'a child exploring Hot Date's opportunities? the genre is most definately made for adults!' Although, (and I say this with a bit of a giggle) the sims now have more... ways to show they love one another, and most of the objects ARE pretty... STEAMY, there's nothing there to show that one of such a curious mind can't explore there! How can anyone resist such an opportunity when every review of Hot Date has been given 5 stars, reviewers of the game turn completely optimistic, and even non-sim owners want to take a step further. With new things in hot date such as Downtown (a place where your sims can go to meet new people) cuddly and social new objects (the luv tub, cuddle couch... need I say more?) and more relationship and optential skills for your sims... what's gonna stop us when Hot Date hits the shops? That may be in November sometime, I can't promise you anything. The only thing I can promise is that Hot Date is sure to be on the top of my christmas List this year!

Even More Fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: February 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the third expansion pack for The Sims game and I'm still hooked. This one has changed the format, and you can now take your Sim to a downtown area, which comes populated with approximately thirty Townies to pick up, seduce, hang out with, marry, and fight with, according to your proclivities.

It's lots of fun. The downtown facilities as they come with the game are rather dreary, but I assume you're into destroying and rebuilding things, or you wouldn't be playing The Sims in the first place, so I don't consider that a problem. There are new skins, objects, walls, floors, the usual Maxis goodie grab-bag...as well as new interactions between the Sims. Making friends is different with this pack and initially I found it harder, but basically it comes down to a couple of things... don't get touchy-feely with Sims who don't like you, especially if you're stinky, and apart from talking, don't repeat the same action, for example, the same hug, more than a couple of times in the same time period. There's some new surprises, some new laughs, and new playthings.

Be warned on a couple of points. If you have all the packs installed, the game devours RAM. Clunky old computers, beware. If you're used to playing without using the cheat code, it's tricky to learn skills, keep jobs to earn money, keep motives high, make and keep friends for promotions, and still find time to go downtown. And the game does have a few bugs. From what I can tell a fair number of the bugs are the result of some user-made modifications which are no longer compatible with this pack. I've been lucky, but I have had the `cuddle-couch' one, where one Sim gets stuck in a booth or couch when they're cuddling. Unnerving, the first time that happened, I thought my Sim's date had died. And just when they were getting along so well, too! And the Townies do have a maddening habit of stopping dead in their tracks and getting in the way. Kinda like real people. But the problems aren't that big a deal, a few small annoyances in hours of play, and all in all, it's very well done.

Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 30 / 37
Date: October 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Sims was an excellent game, but one problem was that you could never get your Sims to travel anywhere outside their house whilst still controlling them. Hotdate does two things which make it a fantastic expansion pack:

1. It gives the opportunity to combine the gameplay or The Sims with earlier Sim games like SimCity by creating other environments than their house for them to interact in.
2. It's always fun to get a little love interest going, and this makes it even easier, more realistic and fun.

It's a perfect companion to the original game and it's expansion packs. I always hoped we'd have to opportunity to take our Sims elsewhere, and now we can, making the game even more appealing.

Great fun but good luck on your sim finding true love

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 47 / 70
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This Sims expansion involves letting your sims go out to the downtown area on dates with other sims. While fun and exciting for your sims at first, you begin to realize how going out in public can be very perilous for them.

I've invested a lot of time in a sim I'd like to call Fred. Fred is a simple defense contractor who has a penchant for hawiian shirts. He has a nice house, but no female to keep him occupied, so here comes Sims Hot Date... oh good fortune! I sent Fred out in his best duds to the nearest bar downtown. At first, I didn't see any women that I'd think would interest Fred (he likes women that don't look like they were wacked in the face with the ugly brick). I just instructed him to drink liberally in the hopes that he would get his confidence up when the babes arrived. Well after drinking a 24-pack and returning from a bathroom break, the bar was filled with bodacious babes from corner to corner, although they were ironically wearing the same exact clothes as the women before. Fred struck up a conversation with one of the ladies and she was very interested in going back to his place, bingo!

The events that happened next are kind of a blur, but I'll summarize. Fred was car jacked by some urban thugs and mugged. Then while walking his new girl to her place, he had to go to a restroom so badly he that he resorted to peeing himself. Once at her place he seems to have blacked out, but when I saw him next, he was lying naked next to a 280 lb. woman with a mustache. Since then, I can't seem to get Fred to go out on another hot date, I think he's just overreacting.

Watch the sparks fly or fizzle....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just bought Hot Date yesterday...and it is a MUST buy for all SIMS fans. It is by far the most fun and enjoyable expansion pack ever made for the PC classic. You're no longer limited to just the house and work..because now the Sims can go Downtown. If you don't like the areas they provide for you..you can add what ever kind of shop or restaraunt..or whatever you want. This game comes with 125+ new objects, and a bunch of new and cool skins. There are only a few minor glitches in this game. Sometimes my Sim or its date freeze and its kinda annoying..but it rarely happens. I took advice from other messages and turned the graphics all the way down on low..and it works great. I heard that Hot Date slowed down your computer a lot...but I guess it just depends on what kind of comp you have. When I first installed it, it took a few minutes to go downtown..but now you I don't even have to wait!! I give this game the highest recommendation ever!! BUY BUY BUY!!

Sims new release

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 30 / 41
Date: September 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Sims has created another expansion pack but this one would prove the best one yet! Sims hot date is an all new sim experience including new objects, interest, new sims and even a car... your own car! Included in this game is a downtown hangout! A shopping mall, beach (which you can create), park, pub and even a fancy restaurant. Ask that special sim out and take them for a romantic dinner... hey if the mood is right you can play footsie or even gossip about the couple next to you. If that is not your idia of a perfect date take them for a stroll in the park, have a picnic or even make out! Included in the game objects are love coaches, picnic baskets and a love tub. This game proves the be the most exciting one yet. Congratulations Maxi's for creating yet another brilliant game!

WOW

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 29 / 41
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have alwaysed been one of the first people in line to get one of the new sim expantion packs always 29.99 but now I look at house party and livin large and i am really mad. This game adds so much more to the sims that the other expantions didn't that i think I got ripped of on the first two. Hot date is a realy fun game and I recomend it for everybody who love the sims. The new downtown is really fun. (as long as you are realy in a good mood) however tdowntown is lacking speed. It would be really good for you to go to a resturant with all your motives really high exept hunger because it takes about 4-6 sim hours to get a table and order and eat (depending on what you order). The game is realy still fun with one more exeption. If you thought it was easy in the first game to get a friend or a lover by talking huging and then kissing WOW are you in troble. The new game makes it almost imposible to get somebody to fall in love with you the first time you see them( you could very easyly do that in the frist games. One of the hardest things to do is to talk. yup in the first game you could almost always bring up the relations ship (slowly) but now there are intrests to talk about and if your date likes something you hate you best change the subject.
But i am talking about most of the negitive things aren't I. I think this game has many more ups than downs and if my first part of my review sway you not to buy this game then read this. the downtown is not as bad as I made it seem. I suggest that you have the first two expantion packs to play this game and make it more exciting. I STRONGLY suggest at lest house party or it will be very hard to bring up you fun motive. I made a danceing place so when my sims are board they can dance. And even though it takes a loooong time to do things like eat in the downtown time does not change when you come back home (you do have a clock that tells you the time but you can't speed up downtown it always goes the same regular speed)and when you get back home you motives will be the same as when you left down town but the time will be that same from when you left your house. Confused yet? Well I would be. My finnal virtict

If you liked house party and livin' large you will love this game if you are inpatient then this game may not be for you( and if you all ready have this game think the stupid taxi with a red screen behind it)
But mostly I would have to say buy this game with all the new stuff here you will really want it when maxis releses the final expantion pack The Sims Online

The Best Expansion Pack Yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It's almost scary how I ask myself "how can the next expansion get better?" and it always does. At the moment my neighbor is obsessing himself on my other computer with trying to bring some attractive women home (but in vain), and my sister can't help but get involved in HOT DATE. The only con that I have with the game is it can get choppy at times, but maybe it's only for me. Anyway, the pros by far outweigh the cons, and I generally enjoy my time on the computer when playing HOT DATE. The downtown option is brilliant, and I am content with buying new outfits and Sim games.....
Score: 5 stars
Recommended: YES!
(My friend is now turning to the next girl on his list :-) )

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