The Sims 3 Supernatural

The Sims 3 Supernatural expansion pack is filled with a ton of new fun content. No longer do you simply chose between being a male or female, young or old. Now your Sims 3 world gets rocked by the introduction of witches, vampires, werewolves, fairies and random attacking zombies. Be sure to follow the phases of the moon, because when the full moon comes out, so do all the "supernaturals". *** Please Note, that this is an expansion pack for the main game. You will need to have the The Sims 3 game installed on your computer first to play this, since this is an add-on for the main game. *** Creating your sims: Your Create a Sim page now has new added options. A limitless color pallet has been added for skin tone options. Now your sims can be bright pink, pale blue, vivid green or even spray-on-tan orange. What ever skin color you want, now your sims can have it. But that's just the beginning. For those looking forward to the sim fairies, you can customize the wings as well. There is an array of wing types for you to choose from, and even more color options. The fairies wing colors also have an addition feature of how they sparkle depending on their color. Lighter colors glitter like a sparkler, with a memorizing brilliance which far exceeded my expectations. Darker color wings sparkle with black accents, giving your sim fairy a darker, more "evil" appearance. When creating a werewolf, there is a new button where you can see what it looks like both as a human and transformed. Once you've chosen your sims "supernatural" type, then it's on to the new cloths, hair and makeup. The new content in these areas is really nice. There are some great hair styles for both genders and they've finally added some really neat, unique clothing in bright colors. It's not just clothing for your supernaturals, but for your human sims as well. There are makeup styles added to make your witches ugly and your vampires pale and gaunt. Lots of new content to brows through and customize your sims in a whole new way. After finishing with your sims looks, you'll find new selections available in the traits and lifetime wishes. Now your sims will be working towards new life goals like "Magic Makeover" and "Leader of the Pack", while sporting new traits like Gatherer and Supernatural Fan. You'll find in every area of customizing your sims, there's something new to try out. Playing the game: The first time you play, the game will give you an option to place the new lots that came with this pack, if you're playing a previously made town. There is a new town included in this pack called Moonlight Falls, which already has the new lots. These lots are the Elixir Consignment Store, a shop where you can buy elixirs and brand new items that you can also collect, and the Supernatural Hangout, a lounge with new games for your sims that supernaturals tend to flock to. After placing the new lots or beginning in the new town, you'll then find that next to your sims photo and their needs bars, there is also now the status of the current phase of the moon. You can change how often the moon is full in your Sims 3 options menu. When the moon is full, all the lights everywhere glow green, and the supernaturals come out. Zombie sims will sneak up on you and try and chew on you for a bit. Fortunately, they are fairly easy to outrun. Kids can now check under their beds for monsters....and sometimes they find them! While you're out at community lots like the Supernatural Hangout, you'll find new items like the Moondia Horoscope which can tell your future, and the Magic Mirror, that you can have a chat with, or even ask it to give you a brand new kind of makeover. Spooky pictures hang on the walls and the new fun games like Smack a Gnome are there to play. The skeleton maid Bonehilda is back, and ready to emerge from her coffin to clean your sims home. You can travel between locations with a teleporting phone booth looking object called the LLAMA, or buy yourself a flying broom to travel on. There are even new kinds of music to play from radios, like the Dark Wave station and you'll find a huge array of new interactions available for your sims to socialize with. There's even a bee hive to collect honey from and a jelly bean bush to eat candies off of. Vampires can't stay outside in the sun for too long without problems. They can spend a few sim hours outside, but will eventually begin to smolder a bit from the sunlight burning them, then eventually they pass out. If they stay exposed to the light, they eventually die. They have a thirst bar instead of a hunger bar, and have to spend a decent amount of time trying to track down dinner. Fortunately, the refrigerators now come equipped with food to satisfy the supernaturals needs. Vampires can also offer to turn other sims into vampires, as well as using them as a snack. Fairies fly long distances instead of walking. They have a fairy dust bar in their needs section that tells how much fairy dust they have on hand. They can give their dust to other sims who ask for it and they can play tricks on sims and turn into tiny little flying balls of light, looking like large fireflies. There are fairy houses, about the size of kids toy doll houses that they can rest and entertain in. You can turn your sim into a werewolf on command, and work on getting other werewolves into your pack. Witches can pull out their magic wand and play with magic, learning new spells and upgrading to new wands with better spell accuracy. Your witches magic powder and your fairies dust can deplete as you use them, but with each full moon, they refill. There are so many new things to explore and new items to try out, it could take months to discover and complete everything. This expansion pack is definitely worth getting. One of the best expansion packs in the past was the old Makin' Magic pack from the original Sims, and the Sims 3 Supernatural pack has certainly done its predecessor justice.

I've played every Sims game and every Sims expansion since the original released about twelve years ago. Before Supernatural, my favorite expansion pack was The Sims 2 Makin' Magic. It was just so much fun to have that supernatural aspect added to the game! While I LOVED the Sims 3 Pets expansion (OMG HORSES!), Supernatural just blows it out of the water. **Note: Requires The Sims 3 to play!** CHARACTER CREATION: At the character creation screen you now have the option to be human, vampire, werewolf, fairy, or witch. You also get to customize your characters more than ever before - including their 'alternate' forms. Werewolves have a hairy toothy form that you can customize, and fairies get colorful wispy wings. There are also tons of new traits and new life goals that go along with the supernatural theme. I still hate almost all of the Sims designed hairstyles and almost always use custom content for this. But outside of the hair, the customization is really fun and they keep raising the bar with what you can do with your character. NEW NEIGHBORHOOD: I LOVE the new houses and the new neighborhood - Midnight Falls (kind of a cute Vampire Diaries meets Twilight reference there!). I am really bad at designing homes, so I love to use the ones designed by the Sims crew and these houses are awesome! I'm glad they didn't make them all over the top creepy - they just have this feel to them that screams supernatural without being all black and gothic and gargoyles and stuff. The nightclubs and places to visit in the new neighborhood are also awesome! There's tons of new objects for your sims to play around with and fun supernatural places to visit (where you can get your fortune told, buy magical elixirs, play silly games, etc. GAMEPLAY: Each 'race' has its own unique abilities and I've been playing a werewolf family that is very very fun! I've been having a great time creating my pack by having my sim befriend people and then turn them into werewolves (against their will, I'm so mean!). You can then 'hunt as a pack' which is a great way to find collectibles! And it's funny to see a whole group of sims running around on all fours. I haven't played with all of the supernatural races yet, but I think I'm trying fairy next. The wings are just so cute! My Sim has unfortunately run in to a few other supernatural characters with unexpected results. A witch showed up at the house and cast a spell on him, making him fall in love with her. Unfortunately his wife was inside the house and well, she didn't like that too much! The unexpected surprises just keep coming! I can't wait to play again and I have a feeling I'll be playing this expac for much longer than the previous ones. I liked the Showtime pack, but it got boring after awhile. I've already played Supernatural for about 12 hours and I'm itching to get back in to it! Overall, great game! I highly recommend picking this one up!

I really love this EP. If you love playing Sims 3, you will love this EP. If you love supernatural things, then you'll love the sims 3 and this EP. The witches, werewolves, and fairies are all really cool and really well done. Unlike in Sims 2, you have a lot more control over how your supernatural creature will look, traits, and interactions. Harry Potter fans will be happy to see that the witches are VERY much like Harry Potter witches and wizards. The fairies are a bit link Tinkerbell, but there are a lot of new interactions for them. The werewolves seem very realistic, and you can customize their wolf form. I wish you could make them an actual wolf, but alas not. Even if you have late night, there are additions to vampires. I thought the improvements might be lame and not worth it, but I'm excited about the new vampire interactions. All in all, the supernatural content of this game is really great. What I really wanted to say, though, is that even if you aren't a huge supernatural creature fan, this is still a good EP to get. There are lots of new objects that aren't supernatural related. For instances, there's a rocking chair you can finally rock your baby or toddler in! There are games like whack-a-gnome and a claw arcade style game. There's a miniature train set! There's finally a collection case for insects. There's a new collections system that makes it really easy to see what you're missing. There are tons of new harvestables for gardeners and new cooking recipies. This EP just adds a lot to overall gameplay. The new world, Moonlight Falls, is 'okay' in my books. The mountains backdrop and small town feel are nice. They did a good job of making sure that all of your other EP content is also installed in this world. A few changes to the bars, and they're just like nightlife bars. The Ambitions lots install in good places. There are tons of cute references to pop culture like "La Shove Beach" or 3 witch sisters living in a Victorian house together. I'm a bit disappointed in the appearance of the sims, though. Some world have better premades than this one, but it's still pretty good overall. I still prefer Sunset Valley and Hidden Springs, but this world is a decent one. All in all, this is a great EP to purchase. Sims fans should get tons of play time out of this.

I will state up front that the Sims 1 Makin' Magic was my favorite expansion pack of that series. During my Sims 2 era, I never purchased Apartment Life which had incorporated witches. Now it's the Sims 3, and once EA busted out the trailer for Supernatural, I was hooked. Finally my Snape sim can properly curse everyone! So, how is it? Loved the Gothic/Magic buy and build items, especially the brooms and haunted items. The witch class is very strong and seem to be able to do the most injury to other sims. The spells they can cast alternate between useful and damaging as their skill improves. They also get better results using the alchemy station, though it is not an exclusive item for witches. I enjoyed playing them the most. Fairies are slightly less powerful to me; most of their spells are in the nuisance category, but they make great gardeners and their ability to project auras boosts their skill level pretty quickly. They can repair objects in fairy form as well. The fairy house is a source of food, fun, and rest. And it's portable! Vampires from Late Night are re/introduced. I see them all the time around time in daylight and I haven't seen any of them start to sizzle as I think they should. They may faint in the sun, but burning to a crisp seems impossible. Plus they are so POLITE; one can't drink a sim's blood without a strong relationship established. What a crock. Thankfully there is a mod that makes vampires a little more irresistible in that area. From observation, the werewolf is pretty underdone. They stalk everywhere and mangle their food, even in human form. More doglike than a lethal throat-ripper. They don't seem to have awesome powers either. Thank you EA, for allowing players to turn off Celebrities; I hated that system! A few townies are still labeled as Paparazzi and I get great fun sending my witches and wizards to throw potions and cast curses at them. Mwuahahaha! Other supernatural classes can be turned off too. Except the Zombies. Zombies, Zombies. What duds. As most have read by now, these zombies prefer leaves to brains. Every full moon they sort of crawl from the ground in a blaze of light and then, head to any plant, dead or alive. Their obsession is so overriding that they are oblivious when a meat-bag gets close to throw a spell or potion. Then they obligingly stand still to receive their dose of witchcraft. Great for leveling up another supernatural, but I'd prefer a bit more danger. That is probably my biggest disappointment with Supernatural - the danger factor is pretty well neutered. I understand that EA wants to be family-friendly, but a pack which includes some iconic monsters could have been little more creepy and thrilling. Still, it's a pretty robust and fun expansion pack. Note - I have World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations and Pets and am patched up to 1.38.

I have to say this is, by far, the best expansion pack ever. I usually don't write product reviews for stuff, but I felt it was my duty to tell how amazing this game is! I had no problems installing it or anything. And I had a heck of a time installing the other expansions. This game is super smooth compared to the other games. I had no problems with it, though I only played for 5 hours, but now I am completely in love! I love the new clothes and accessories for the women and men. I didn't think there were enough hairstyles and I didn't really like most of them, but for me, the clothes made up for that. I love the fingernail accessories. I just love my vampire with blood red nails. There were a few tattoos, but I'm not really a fan of those anyway. The fairies wings weren't what I was expecting. I was hoping we could shape them into whatever we wanted and make them crazy multicolored, but I still really love the wings. They are beautiful. I love how you can change the skin color to anything. I made my fairy pink. I love how you can change the hair when your sim is a werewolf. I'm glad you can choose how hairy your werewolf is because too much hair is gross; even if a werewolf is supposed to be super hairy. I am a little annoyed about not being able to change my werewolf into its own set of clothes. I don't want my sim to be wearing ripped up clothes just because I want him to be wearing it when he turns. Maybe I just don't know how to do it, but I couldn't find a way to make him only wear ripped clothes when he turns. I love the vampires. I don't have Late Night so I can't compare those vampires, but I really loved their eyes in Supernatural. I didn't know you could choose to be a ghost or a genie until I played the game. I thought that was a neat thing to add. I really love the new Lifetime wishes. I love the Leader of the Pack; I want my werewolf to be the leader! I love how your fairy can become King or Queen of the fairies! I do wish there would have been more traits. I didn't think they added enough new traits for the mystical sims. I absolutely love Moonlight Falls. It is beautiful and the houses are amazing. Appaloosa Plains was always my favorite, but I changed over to Moonlight Falls when I saw it. I just love the fact that there are Zombies! I am a little worried about my game getting over populated with them. I don't want any of my sims to be turned into one. So, I love Supernatural. I love supernatural everything so if you are a fan of fairy tales and scary things, definitely get this! I love it.

As described by seller. Easy to load and fun to play

Had this game for a while now and am happy to report, I have no issues thus far with the game. In addition, the game has a very large amount of new items for all modes, (build, buy, and create a sim), and all of the objects are very useful and fun to use. This is a great game if you are trying to limit yourself to expansion packs to avoid unwanted crashes as there are lots of new objects, create a sim traits, and new careers. great game - worth the money.

I have been playing this expansion pack since it has been released and have played a Vampire, Fairy, Witch and Ghost. As far as the actual game having glitches- I am running mine on a Mac and I had no install issues and have only needed to rest a sim one time in two weeks, not bad for EA and their Mac issues. The pros. There are lots of new hair styles and clothing options. The create a sim has a ton of new options to control your sims looks from skin, to eyes, to ears. The list of customizing your sims physical looks goes on and on. The style of the town is beautiful old victorian with several new lots types (new consignment store, fairy park, and fortunetellers wagon.) There is also a bunch of new fun furniture and rabbit-holes providing three new whoo spots. The portable fairy houses are awesome. You can put one in your inventory and use it any where in the game to fill your sleep and eating needs- you can also throw fairy parties in them and fulfill your fun meter. There are several new plants for those who love gardening and you can also keep bees and harvest honey and bees wax. EA has also added frogs, and shining salamanders for those fishers. This expansion offers alchemy as a profession and it puts all those harvestable to use. You can also buy a gem cutter and cut your own gems now, or you can cut them at the consignment store. One of my favorite additions this expansion pack offers is the LLAMA transit booths. They look like British phone booths and they form a network that allows you to travel all over town. You can add them to your house or to any location in the wold editor, and they are much faster than driving in your car. I have a teleporter and when my sims needs are met I usually opt to travel via LLAMA because they are so fast. Boohilda is back and I personally think she is hilarious- she watches my hot fairy husband shower and kicks my garden gnome every chance she gets. However, she is kind of creepy once you have a baby- If you have a sim that needs to develop their handiness skill you may want to dismiss her because she fixes all your broken appliances in addition to cleaning your lot. The Cons....Zombies!!! They are so annoying and the town is teaming with them. I thought that it would be a full-moon type of thing, ohhh no all the time at night which is basically all the time because its starts to get dark at 5:30 pm-ish. Even during the day time it is rarely sunny out- kind of depressing. I have a screen shot that has seventeen-not joking or exaggerating locked out side my front yard gate. If you don't have fenced yard and lock your gate they come in your yard kill your garden and won't get off your lot. In the town they pop up all over every time you exit a building prompting zombie attacks. EA has population settings to control the supernatural population in your town for all types of supernaturals except zombies. It is soo stupid and annoying- they are the cockroaches of the sims 3. I am considering uninstalling this expansion pack just because of how annoying the zombies are. Another issue I have is that venues still close after hours making it hard for vampires who can't be out in the sun without burning. The game touts stay up all night but the business and some venues are closed during the night...whats the point? The next feature I don't really love is that EA lumped many of the community lots into one building. City Hall, Military, and the Science Lab are all one building. The movie theater is now also the bad guy hang out. The diner and grocery store share a building on the same lot with the spa and the bookstore in one building. It's like they just started lumping stuff together so they had to come up with fewer buildings.The ghosts are nothing new, most people who have been playing sims for a while already had a playable ghost. To me the werwolfs look silly and tear up your house. I wish they would have added more insects to collect and animals to interact with the whole fairies and where-wolf concepts. Conclusions- buy it if you are really into the whole vampire urban fantasy thing. In past expansion packs gamers have felt EA was to light with adding new content. I feel like supernatural has tons of new content and some new different game play options. The zombies really are so annoying and I hate how its dark and dreary it is all the time. I have moved all the new community lots that I liked from Moonlight Falls to Hidden Springs and put a bunch of LLAMA booths up all over town and that has made play somewhat better. I wish I could take all the new items- furniture, plants, LLAMA transit system, and leave all the supernatural behind- its more annoying than interesting. Maybe Seasons will be a better fit for my game play.

I 'm having fun playing with all the creatures, they have alot of stuff.

Said it would arrive January 2 but actually arrived on December 23! Before Christmas even. It is new and in package, the back has a sticker saying it's new. Will try to play it tomorrow but overall seems to be no problem and super speedy arrival! Would order from here again. I've been playing more Sims 3 lately lol

It is a great game

Bought this for my 14 year old niece who loves Sims and vampires/witches/fairies/werewolves. Needless to say - she loves it. The case was badly bent during shipping, but the disc was OK.

Its an expansion not the game itself. Do not make the mistake I made.