My Trial of City Living Expansion Pack

"waterywatermelon;d-989401" wrote:
I don't own the City Living expansion pack, and that expansion pack is up for a free trial this weekend. So yesterday, I downloaded the expansion pack and began playing with the free trial. Today, I continued playing with it. There are definitely some pros and cons to this pack.

Pros:

live in a big city in an apartment and work your way up into a penthouse!

cultural festivals (The fireworks were cool, though it would be even better if they were like The Sims 3 ones where you could go into the Map view and actually see the fireworks. Perhaps, in the Sims 4, you have to tilt the camera to see fireworks or something?)

street musicians (Not only can you tip the street musicians, you can also become one! Then, you can use your cell phone to register yourself as a self-employed street musician! You can customize whatever career you want!)

You can meet different Sims (though, you can do so in the base game as well).

You get the politics career, social media influencer career and the art/food critic career... and I think, the self-employed career?

Basketball court.

Singing.

New ethnic clothing and ethnic hairstyles and ethnic foods. If you have always wanted to create an ethnic Indian Sim, then now's your chance!

Karaoke.

Haggle for prices and get discounted items at the produce store and street vendors. Now, your Sim can shop for groceries and haggle for prices!

You can also sell crafted items or grown items on the little street store table, and start your own grocery store business!

Attend rally and protest - also linked to the Politics career track.

Old, worn-down Build/Buy content. You can make your apartment or house look old and worn-down and install utilities features so that the living space will look like it's been unfinished. I really like the Build/Buy content, because I can use it to make old basements. But then, I already own The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection, and that one is pretty similar.

Street art.

Bubble machine.

Voodoo doll. (The voodoo doll doesn't seem to have much of an effect, though.)

The voodoo doll is base game. Apartments are just normal lots but with added annoying AI, you can't build your own and visit neighbors without loading screens. Self employment is in the BG, you can already become a street musician in the BG. Meeting new sims is not a feature. And I'm pretty sure you can haggle without CL, in any street vendor (RoM, Jungle Adventures, Seasons, etc). The street table can also be obtained with Eco Lyfestyle and/or Jungle Adventure so I wouldn't say it's unique to CL.

CL is as bare bones as Island Living. Snowy Escape is...maybe slightly better than the two because of the snow sports and lifestyles, though those have been sort of broken since the EP released...what a joke. The three worst EP's in the whole franchise. I don't recommend buying any of these at full price...you'll be robbed.