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What's more, Hot Date actually lets you use some items--ones that your sims either buy or make by hand--as gifts to give to other sims.

But Hot Date isn't just about items; it also features a number of real improvements to The Sims' already-interesting social system. As in the original game, sims communicate with each other in "simlish," an expressive but almost completely unintelligible gibberish language, but Hot Date features new simlish phrases and new character voices.

More importantly, Hot Date features an expanded set of social options; instead of just greeting a new sim, you can choose to wave at it from a distance or walk up to it and shake hands. Instead of just giving your neighbor a hug, you can choose whether or not you want your hug to be a friendly gesture or a more romantic embrace. Making this sort of decision is especially important for your sim if it's on a date, since choosing an inappropriate thing to say or do can make your sim's date get up and walk out.

To help your sims be more compatible with their dream dates, Hot Date features an entirely new attribute for your sims: interests. Your sims can read magazines to increase their knowledge in areas like money, the weather, technology, and the '60s; the more your sim knows about a topic that its date is interested in, the better they'll get along. But getting far enough into a relationship to get married takes time, and Hot Date includes a new two-part relationship meter to help indicate how well your courtship is coming along: a "current" relationship meter and a long-term meter.

You'll need to keep your date happy in both the short and long term to get that far. If you've played House Party, you'll know that it was difficult to fit a relationship with a neighbor into a schedule that already included a career and a sim's own basic needs of eating, resting, and entertainment. Managing all of those things together with a steady dating schedule would have been impossible to do if it weren't for Hot Date's new downtown feature.

The new downtown area is Hot Date's most significant new addition to The Sims and is probably the most significant addition that's ever been made to the game. Sims can now use their telephones to call a taxi that takes them to downtown SimCity, which is composed of lots that can be shopping centers, recreation areas, restaurants, or nightclubs. While your sim is on a date, you can control your sim, but you can't actually give orders to its date; you've got to make your sim be as nice, considerate, and charming as possible and hope that the date goes well.

Fortunately, downtown features lots of brand-new, downtown-only items, like food vendors, clothing stores, picnic areas, and duck ponds that your couples can use to keep themselves busy, and a few new items, like the restaurant booth seat, that'll let them get to know each other better. And all the time you spend downtown takes place independent of time at home; in other words, your sims will get hungry, tired, and bored as usual during the time they spend downtown, but once they get home, the clock will actually reset to the time when they left.

This makes having both a relationship and a job which still typically takes about six hours out of a sim's day not only possible, but a lot easier than before. And even if you aren't interested in dating or shopping, you can actually build your own custom lot downtown, in much the same way you build and design a sim's house.

Hot Date already comes with a mostly full downtown that's packed with different places to bring your date, but it does have a single empty lot that you can turn into almost anything. The Sims 4. The Sims Stories. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. Developer s. Publisher s. Platform s. Patches and updates. Followed by The Sims: Vacation March 25, The Sims. Expansion packs.