Yes they are lacking, the two biggest ones are C&D and Island living. Let me start off with cats and dogs vs sims 3 pets, oh boy where do I begin sims 3 gave us cats, dogs, horses, birds, lizards, rodents, snakes, turtles, deer, raccoons, and freaking unicorns. Cats and Dogs gave us well... cats and dogs... and the ability to become a vet, which was nice but I find it incredibly hard to believe that they couldn’t at least add things like rodents, birds, reptiles, or even wild animals back such as skunks, deer or actual raccoons (no those skin for the cat as a raccoon doesn’t count) and they had to make a stuff pack which only gave us hamsters which was nice but that’s it? They couldn’t add the other small animals?
Now on to island living vs island paradise in the sims 3, once again a major let down I was so hyped up for nothing. Only thing I like in this pack is the conservationist career and the off the grid trait as well as the world. Sims 3 IP gave us house boats, resorts, an active lifeguard career, and ability to actually dive underwater and properly scuba dive, it had visible sharks, and a kraken. Sims 4 the life guard career is a rabbit hole which is a let down because it was so fun in the sims 3, I didn’t expect house boats to be in the sims 4 and was okay without them. Resorts would have been nice, but my disappointments are the fact that you can’t go underwater and explore the ocean, seriously that makes mermaids pretty much useless. I would have loved a tiny underwater area like in island paradise so disappointing. Also mermaids were fun in the sims 3 because they could do stuff with the ocean and I liked the danger of lack of water killing you as it made sense. Sims 4 mermaids are pretty and fun to make but they are almost entirely useless as this pack has nothing to offer aside from the conservation career.
