The Future!

[Caspin]

Is anyone else planning to get the 'Into The Future' expansion pack?

When I first heard about it I was not too keen, but now I've seen more information I am looking forward to it. I want a sonic shower and a jet pack!

The future world will be one that you can dip into, like the WA destinations or the university town, so you can use it only if you want to in any particular game.

It seems like something that might suit players who are interested in doing legacies, as it will give them a little twist in being able to go and look at their sims' descendants in the future.

The future world looks great, I think, and I love the hoverboards and new ways to travel around. It will also mean that there is more to do with the futuristic stuff other than play on Lunar Lakes, which I tire of pretty quickly (that world is too big, it takes ages to get round it). I built a bunch of space colony-style houses for a Lunar Lakes competition once and haven't used them since, so I'm looking forward to popping them into the future instead.

I don't think I've ever had a simbot in my game (yes, I know: I have lots left to do in TS3!) but the plumbots look fun and I'll definitely be making some of them into minions for my sim (at least that will give Minty's simself a break from being my chef and gardener).

The whole Utopia versus Dystopia future is intriguing and it looks as though they've done a better job of that then I'd expected. I imagine it would be highly entertaining to send sims into dystopia and I like that to trigger that version of events you have to go round your 'normal' world and convince everyone that they're doomed!

Utopia, on the other hand, looks freaking terrifying! If you thought that the purple sparkle-puking dragons from Dragon Valley were a bit too Hello Kitty, get a load of the utopian future of "self-squeezing" (steady on!) sims and spontaneous dance! Could be funny, could be fudging awful!