You can always pick up strays or attempt to tame wild horses, but doing so takes time and resources new families may not have. This is a bit gamey, but it allows you jump into working with the pets right away, rather than having to wait to establish a family before trying them. Previous pets-like expansions forced you to spend several hundred Simoleons, shutting it out from first-generation newly made families. Strangely, you can adopt a horse-just like dogs and cats-for free at any time. It's a get-rich-quick scheme that actually works, but it's contained just enough not to unbalance the game. If you create a new Sim and horse from scratch and do nothing but train, you can probably start pulling in over three grand daily after just an in-game week of training it would take several weeks to get that much from a conventional job. Your human Sim trainer will also gain skills, such as his ability to ride, and the combined skill of horse and human will affect how you do in races. Horses can be trained in running races or equestrian competitions.
Horses meanwhile are a nearly game-breaking goldmine if raised correctly. It's a far less crazy system and allows you the freedom to ignore it if you'd rather just keep the pets for their social benefits. Unlike previous Pets-like expansions, your pets are fully controllable, so while your humans are away at their jobs, you can personally command your cat or dog to hunt around the town. Cats hunt for other animals, such as low-maintenance pets, while dogs hunt for valuable ores and gems. Cats and dogs can be trained to hunt, which is their only job skill per se. They can contribute by peeing on your neighborhood rivals, for one.
In The Sims 3: Pets, pets do not have strict jobs with specific work hours, but that doesn't mean they can't contribute to the family. Even for a game where a werewolf publically making out with a human-plant clone was an everyday occurrence, I thought pet jobs were a little weird. Back then, cats and dogs could actually get jobs, and would hop in a carpool on their own to help the family pad its bank account. One of my favorite features of the game is actually the removal of a Sims 2-era feature. Traditionally, high-maintenance pets were limited to dogs and cats, but EA has added horses to the mix this time. The pets in Pets are basically into two types: low-maintenance pets that you only need to worry about feeding, such as snakes and lizards and high-maintenance pets that can be trained for tasks. Luckily, EA has added enough that the concept still feels fresh, and it makes for a worthy addition to The Sims 3. This is the third time EA (or Maxis) had a similar idea for the franchise, after releasing The Sims: Unleashed and The Sims 2: Pets years ago. From the title alone, it probably goes without saying that The Sims 3: Pets focuses on animals you can adopt to wander around your home.įor the first time in the entire franchise, the idea of Pets made me a little wary. Electronic Arts returns with yet another expansion pack for their long-running Sims franchise, the fifth for The Sims 3.
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