[Review] The Sims 4: Get Famous

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The Sims 4’s Get Famous expansion is fun, full of choices, and a little scary

 

The Sims 4: Get Famous is the sixth expansion pack for The Sims 4. It was announced on October 9, 2018 and released on November 16, 2018 worldwide. The package concentrates on being a celebrity, wealth, fame and new acting career.

 

 

Description
Reach for the stars and rise to celebrity status with The Sims™ 4 Get Famous. Build your stardom as you pursue an acting career, become an A-lister, and guide your Sims down the unpredictable path to fame. From the studio lot to VIP parties, you choose how your Sims can gain worldwide acclaim. Customize and show off your celebrity style, and decorate your Sims’ luxury house on the hills with over-the-top accessories like a solid-gold toilet. Get ready to shine bright in the spotlight and live your best celebrity life.

KEY FEATURES

Claim Your Fame Now your Sims can live out their wildest dreams of fame and fortune! Rise to stardom in your current career, or catapult to fame with a new pursuit. Bask in the limelight as an aspiring actor or livestream your every moment as an influencer. But remember, the more famous your Sims become, the more attention, perks, and starstruck fans they will attract. Becoming rich and famous can be unpredictable, but whether you make it rain or burn through your Simoleons, you’ll never look back once you’re living that VIP lifestyle.

Act the Part Be your own muse and direct your Sim toward a brilliant acting career. Get your big break with commercial gigs or land a part in a television series. When your Sims go the extra mile studying lines and wearing unique costumes, all that hard work might lead to a starring role in the next big blockbuster.

Run This Town Join the glitz and glamour of Del Sol Valley, a new world where your Sims discover fame. Get a starter home in Mirage Park or work your way up to a house in the hills in The Pinnacles. Score a legendary diamond on Starlight Boulevard with your Sim’s name on it, and you’ll be the talk of the town in no time.

Live a Lavish Lifestyle Get noticed around town in chic streetwear or dress the part with glamorous outfits on set. As your Sim’s status skyrockets, you gain celebrity perks. Decorate a gorgeous mansion with gold-plated furniture and take home a unique set piece to put on display as a tribute to the golden age. . . of you. 
 

 

 

Premiere Date: November 16, 2018
Series: Sims
Mode: Single player game
Publisher: Electronics Arts
Programmers: Maxis, The Sims Studio
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS
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PC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM SPECS:
OS: 64 Bit Required. Windows 7 (SP1), Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10
CPU: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4000+ or equivalent (For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-62 or equivalent)
RAM: At least 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: At least 3 GB of free space (15 GB if installing with The Sims™ 4) with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
VIDEO: 128 MB of Video RAM and support for Pixel Shader 3.0. Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better, Intel GMA X4500 or better.
DIRECTX: DirectX 9.0c compatible
SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c Compatible
INPUT: Keyboard and Mouse
ONLINE REQUIREMENTS: Internet connection required for product activation

RECOMMENDED SPECS:
OS: 64 Bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10
PROCESSOR: Intel core i5 or faster, AMD Athlon X4
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GTX 650 or better
MEMORY: 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 18 GB of Hard Drive space

MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM SPECS:
OS: Mac OS® X 10.7.5 (Lion)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Processor or better
RAM: At least 4 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: At least 3 GB of free space (15 GB if installing with The Sims™ 4) with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro or better. Video RAM of 256MB or better.
INPUT: Keyboard and Mouse
ONLINE REQUIREMENTS: Internet connection required for product activation

RECOMMENDED SPECS:
OS: Mac OS® X 10.9 or later
PROCESSOR: Intel Core i5 or better
VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GTX 650 or better
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM
HARD DRIVE: 18 GB of Hard Drive space

 

The Sims 4's latest expansion pack is all about the intoxicating, intriguing lifestyle of fame. Although a premise has been explored in other Sims games, the system has been significantly refined, expanded, and elaborated upon. This is the pack that lets you have your Sims, well, get famous, and live the life of a celebrity - whatever sort of celebrity that may be.

Getting famous is a full-time commitment, requiring enough effort and attention to significantly overhaul the basic gameplay loops of The Sims 4. There's a new acting career, along with multiple ways to get famous: uploading videos, social media, creating music or comedy , and they are on. It is even possible to, with a lot of work and finesse, get famous for essentially nothing but being a local fixture in coffee shops and venues. The most effective route to quick celebrity stardom is passing auditions and nailing gigs, all of which require different skills. Still acting and charisma-centered, though some gigs will center on other skills like comedy and fitness.

Being an actor is an “active” job, which means that you have the choice to follow your Sims to work. Very similar to Doctor, Detective and Scientist careers from Get to Work, but this time your Sim must first nail an audition, then show up to the gig. Once proceeded at the gig, done with your hair and make-up, and ready to proceed, you have to go through your rolls. You can take the “safe” route on choices, or swing for the stretches and stretch skills like fitness, charisma, dancing, or so on. Is a matter of risk and reward, and successful gambles reward you with more glory.

 

 

 

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A traditional Sim family might want to opt out of fame altogether, as it totally monopolizes the game if even a slightly famous Sim leaves the lot. Fans and paparazzi instantly swarm you. Some of them faint. Is really hard to befriend a Sim with celebrity status while on a community lot. Often you have to hope that one of them just passes your residence on a whim. If you want to be famous, you have to constantly perform actions that will grant you fame, otherwise your fame level will slip. In a way, its on par with actual celebrity life and how inescapable your own celebrity can be. Well, kinda - in the Sims, if you decide that having a paparazzi swarm you always go out is too much, you can opt out of the Fame system with a click of a button.

 

 

A much more elegant system than in The Sims 3, where fame was an inescapable gravity well. In The Sims 3, you would not only collect more fame over time, but the people around you also became famous just by being your family member or friend. On a long enough timeline, an entire family could be famous, and get swarmed. Now, you have the time in time and effort to earn a full family of Kardashians, which means its easier to navigate the glory beads because it is less opt-in for your Sims, with an easy opt-out option.

Further rounding this out is a leveling and branching system that works a lot like the Vampire system from their expansion: You earn celebrity points from all sorts of things, from singing in public to posting a selfie. Since your fame and career are always linked, you may eventually become a famous doctor, astronaut, or video game streamer. Leveling up gives you the quirks that complicate your famous life. If you get the "vain street" quirk, you get a massive confidence boost from looking into a mirror, but if you have admired yourself lately, you fall into a sour mood. Another quirk involves your information being leaked to the public, and getting harassed as a result. Even possible to acquire one obsessive apartment who stalks your home, or a "juice obsession" where you get a drinking problem.

Independent of your fame is your reputation, which works as a general alignment and allows you to unlock different fame talents. This nicely revitalizes some basic sim traits, like being evil. Now, you can pick fights in public and get admired for it. You may be super famous, but everyone thinks you think a terrible person. On the flip side, you can have a humble audience, but the people who do know you think the bees knees.

Reputation and fame work on completely independent tracks, which means not yet linked one-to-one as you advance. If you are, for instance, the best criminal in SimNation, you might have an incredibly villainous reputation, but that might make you famous. Shows a fun wrinkle to the celebrity system that encourages doing multiple playthroughs and taking different approaches to becoming famous, with different perks and outcomes. This is a welcome change from the more linear professions, which provide occasional skill checks but eventually all end with your character at the top of their field, disappearing in a few hours, and coming home with the big bucks.

Unlike the Seasons expansion, which adds small-yet-robust touches that compliment the base game, Get Famous Hands You A Meaty Chunk Of Content To Dig Your Teeth Into. Get Famous clev