Island Living is a good “Expansion Pack”

It's definitely am EP, but perhaps on the slimish side. I'm enjoying it very much but as people have said, its use/features are best served in Sulani. But that's OK, as far as I'm concerned. I have enough to keep my Sims occupied in my other saves/worlds.

I never quite understand those who buy the DLC and then rant because it's not big enough/complex enough/doesn't have the same features as those in TS3/yadda yadda yadda. Caveat emptor ('buyer beware') - its on us to figure out before we buy anything if we're going to get value for money from it or not, and there were literally 100s of game changer videos and reviews available before it released covering all aspects of gameplay, so there's no reason for not educating yourself about what the EP does/does not include and then making an informed decision to purchase or not. For me, I was really disappointed when we learned that we couldn't follow our Sims underwater but the other features outweighed this, imo, so I bought it anyway and I don't regret my purchase one bit :)