GameSpot previews ‘The Sims 3 World Adventures’ and gets pwned by Mummies! New details on the first expansion pack are incoming right now, thanks to GameSpot’s preview on The Sims 3 World Adventures!* The coolest detail of them all?* Mummies!* That’s right, Mummies will be introduced in the game, attacking our Sims if they get close to their precious relics and potientally turning them into mummies as well!* Not only that, we also are provided with a few new pictures.* Have a look below. As for the facts, here’s what I’ve compiled from their writeup in an easy to read list: Only 3 locations will be available (Egypt, China and France) but they are huge! You can either travel by purchasing a plane ticket or thru your career Contains a mini-storyline.* Greedy corporation wants to bulldoze these locations thus setting traps, you can either side with the company or the community to save them.* This gives the game a roleplaying game feeling. Use your journal to keep track of relics, puzzles, areas you visited, achievements and view how many ‘visa’ points your Sim has left – which determines how long they can visit (well, for everything else there’s Mastercard ) Tomb has many traps, skills will help pass these. Mummies are introduced.* If your Sim gets into a battle with a mummy and your sim lacks the ‘Martial Arts’* skill (new to Adventures), your sim will come down with the ‘Mummy’s Curse’.* This will kill your Sim within 2 weeks unless you visit the Spinx and plead your case.* Not only that, but Sims can become mummies by spending a night in a sarcophagus.* You will then move much slower and die if your sim sets on fire.* Benefits are that your strength increases and your needs become limited.* Cool thing is…if you die – you turn into a ghost mummy.* That’s a first Marry and bring home sims from the ‘Adventure’ locations 3 new skills:* Martial Arts which is learned in China, Photography, and Nectar Making which originates in France.* 3 new traits are also added.
