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As we have promised you in the video diary day 1 yesterday, we were now at the first presentation to The Sims 3 travel adventures. Part 1 of our report, you’ll find in this news. The other parts will be posted throughout the day. The full report is now available on gamescom.simfans.de too. Have fun reading!

Today we were at the world’s first press presentation of The Sims 3 travel adventures. EA Producer Azure Abowie showed us the expansion pack, and had many a surprise in store.

The Sim Chaz, which the new trait “adventurer’s”, is the desert of Simhara, one of the three new locations that are inspired by real countries, Egypt, China and France.

Chaz is on an adventure trip and wants to explore a pyramid. But the entrance is closed. It examines the most detailed stone wall, which opens suddenly. Behind them are several rooms and corridors. He enters cautiously, because everywhere could be traps that he sets off for his actions.

• Note: The inside of the pyramid is a regular with walls, as we know it from the building mode, structured labyrinth that is indeed packed with many new objects, but the interior of the pyramid has a negative effect on the atmosphere.
• Under rubble in cabinets, on walls or other objects are gears, switches, keys, or as a hole in the wall. The triggering of these objects triggers something else, such as the opening of a door. What is the white Chaz not before. He fought his way from room to room, taking in every room, he must solve puzzles to move forward.
• Note: The player only sees the space in which the sim is up to date and already “decoded” spaces. Rooms are still undiscovered dims – So you can not see all the rooms in advance of the pyramid.
• Anything you can view, explore it,” said Azure.
• But not only traps are located in the pyramid. Thus Chaz has just coins and gold discovered in a trunk. He can be exchanged for unique items in the three countries. Where and against what he must find out for yourself.
• Tip: Explore with your family places. Turns a family member free of a room can also be another family member go there. Faster you will reach deeper into the interior of the pyramid. Low up to four floors / storeys your Sim can penetrate into the pyramid.
• Azure then showed us a large rock. “This only gets her big rock with some special way, which you can find only in China.” Then you have to return to Egypt, to apply it on the rocks and the road to another branch is free. What is behind it is even more special and more valuable, because it requires more effort, this turn freely.

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Chaz Mc Danger can not continue and there needs to choose a different path. But there barred him flames that shoot out of the ground path. But he is an “adventurous”, and thus has one of the three new traits, which brings him benefits on his adventures. So he ventures through the flames and then catches fire. Luckily, located near a well. Quickly, he jumps in there to delete the fire. When he dived, he can see something under water. Driven by his curiosity, he takes a deep breath and dives deeper and deeper and deeper. At the bottom, he discovered a switch. This he operated. As Chaz reappears opens a secret door that allows him a way around the flames. “Sometimes you can dive into a fountain and emerge feeling a connection to another well, in another room, again,” said Azure. In the next room is a locked door. Chaz dares the chest, which stands next to this door to open. It is a stone in half-moon shape. He discovers a fitting counterpart to the wall, is using the crescent, which is thus revealed as a key, and the door opens. He continues to reach deeper into the pyramid and found a large room with many cabinets and a sarcophagus. In hopes of finding more coins and other treasures, it opens a chest to the other and find some coins, gold and other strange objects, whose meaning he only has yet to fathom.

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• new loading screen while game starts
• some starting problems with the game... nice special feature^^
• we are the first after the press who can see the game... yeah^^
• It seems that we'll just see Egypt... no China or France... Mummies rocks^^
• going into a pyramid - WOW!
• finding holes in walls with triggers is easy and opens a huge floor of the pyramid!
• you can create your own tombs
• you can share your tombs online with the community
• wanna live in Egypt? You can!
• teens, young adults, adults and elders can go to a trip to Egypt, China, France.. to toddlers...
• no tool for new neighbourhoods
• you can find fruits for nectar just in France
• you can not start with a new family in Egypt, France or China... still start in Sunset Valley
• just 3 new traits like adventurous
• time for opportunities stop while you are in Egypt, France or China. Like aging in Sunset Valley stop.
• For more visit ... @SimTimes