There are also new skills, including sculpting, tattooing and inventing. All these career paths are undertaken in real time in and around your new neighbourhood, TwinBrook, which has a more leisurely Southern backwater look and feel to previous locations. Firefighters, meanwhile, head for the fire station where they can practice their pole slides or upgrade their engines before heading off to tackle fires, natural disasters and more bizarre events involving garden gnomes. So as a PI you might find yourself tracking all across town to check out crime scenes or investigate suspects. Each of these have added responsibilities, indicated by a sub-menu for each of your sims and giving you options as to how best to level up their skills. So now you can hone your skills as a firefighter, doctor, private investigator, architect, educator, ghosthunter and stylist. The new career paths are in addition to those featured in the main game and offer far more interesting and versatile daily routines.
This time, you actually get to experience full working days, which leads to a few complications of its own – more on this in a moment. T he second add-on pack for Sims 3 takes a similar path to the Open For Business pack for Sims 2, namely expanding your career options, albeit in a great deal more detail.
