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|publisher=[[Electronic Arts]]
|image=The Sims 3 Ambitions American box art.jpg
|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions
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|series = ''[[The Sims]]''
|composer = [[Steve Jablonsky]]
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|modes= [[Single-player video game|Single-player]]
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'''''The Sims 3: Ambitions''''' is the second [[expansion pack]] for the [[strategy game|strategic]] [[life simulation game|life simulation]] [[PC game|computer game]] ''[[The Sims 3]]''. It was released in June 2010. ''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' introduces new career opportunities and control mechanisms into gameplay. Manipulation of Sims' career progressions, actions and interactions during their working are feasible.<ref name="The Sims 3: Ambitions">{{cite web|url=https://www.thesims.com/sims-3-store/expansion-packs/the-sims-3-ambitions|title=Ambitions – The Game – Community – The Sims 3|year=2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016|publisher=Electronic Arts|work=EA Canada}}</ref> Additional career pathways introduce a diversity of skill sets available for acquisition.<ref name="The Sims 3: Ambitions"/> These features, which were absent in ''The Sims 3'', give players greater control of their Sims' career pathways, choices and lives.


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==Gameplay==
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''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' is a career-based expansion pack and introduces new career pathways, changing the style of gameplay involved in the game. In the non-Ambitions version of ''The Sims 3'', all careers were known as "RabbitHoles", a reference to Alice in Wonderland and her disappearing in a rabbit hole. All careers would have a specific building (Political : City Hall; Law Enforcement : Police Station; Medical : Hospital; etc.). However, with ''Ambitions'', the new careers have hands-on gameplay, meaning that the player can control what your sims do in their careers, with two exceptions.

Such examples of career pathways include firefighting, investigator and stylist.<ref name="GameSpot Preview"/> Fulfillment of duties and tasks associated with careers are committed by the players. Firefighters maintain equipment, extinguish home fires, rescue Sims from burning houses. Investigators solve cases and mysteries by convincing or bribing Sims for information, breaking into homes for clues or stealing items for evidence. Stylists are hired by neighbors to offer fashion advice and provide makeovers. The success or failure of task and duty outcomes is controlled by the players.<ref name="GameSpot Preview"/>
Implementation of the ''Skill Careers'' features increase career opportunities and enables for self-employment. Self-employed Sims utilize their existing skills to create products, such as paintings, home grown produce or literature works, and profit from their works.<ref name="GameSpot Preview"/>

Tattooing and stylist careers enable players to modify other Sims. The complexity of the tattoo system allows for players to produce unique designs by selecting tattoo shapes, colors and layers, and stylists design outfits and hairstyles.<ref name="NowGamer Preview"/> These examples bridge Create-a-Sim Mode and Live Mode, meaning real-time modification of Sims is practical for the first time in the ''Sims'' series.<ref name="NowGamer Preview"/>
There are 6 possible ways a Sim may die: starvation, drowning, fire, electrocution, old age, or Mummy's Curse. A seventh possible death scenario has been added with Ambitions, Meteor Death. A meteor can strike at any time. If you have Seasons and Ambitions, you can make an alien summon a meteor. If your Sim is under the shadow of the meteor, it will fall on your Sim and kill him/her.

===Twinbrook===
Twinbrook is a neighborhood which came out with ''Ambitions''. It is most likely named after the two twin rivers that flow on either side of the richer part of the town, near the NPC (Non Player Character) households such as the Wheloffs.

Twinbrook stresses the new career/professions and skills introduced in ''Ambitions'', such as the Stylist profession or Inventing skill. The neighborhood is situated on a bayou, with many bridges and may be in the state of Simisouri (according to NPC sim's bios). Much of the town is designed in a French style like many bayou towns. For example, the town library is a classic French design with two porticos, one at both entrances.

===Professions===
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! style="width: 14%;height:13px;"|Profession Name !! Description !! Level 1 Stipend !! Level 10 Stipend
|-
| Firefighter || Athleticism and handiness are useful in this profession. In-depth tasks include upgrading and maintaining both the station's alarm system and fire truck as well as socializing with fellow co-workers. || §276/week || §2,480/week
|-
| Investigator || Unique among the possible careers, Investigators work freelance, having no set time or location to work. Instead, they acquire cases either by giting for clients to call them. || §275/week || §2,475/week
|-
| Ghost Hunter || Sims use various machines to trap or ward off ghosts. Sims get to keep the ghosts they capture and get to sell them as an extra boost. At career level 10, they receive a very useful item that allows them to see all ghosts on the map. This allows them to get extra income without obeying the hours within which jobs will spawn for them. They do, however, have one type of Rabbit Hole (disappearing in a select location) job, but the two other types are hands-on. Advancing in the logic skill will help with gaining profession experience. It is also worth noting the Eccentric trait, useful only for the Inventing skill, will cause the "Paranormal Profiteer" Lifetime Wish, directly related to Ghost Hunting. A ghost hunter may thus want to work on Logic and Inventing for more experience and an alternate income stream. || §280/week || §2,480/week
|-
| Stylist || Stylists work in a salon, and there they can make over customers. Stylists have access to clothing and hair options that other Sims cannot easily access. The stylist career combines Create a Sim mode with live mode. Stylists get many new social interactions and are eventually available to solicit work from other Sims not in a salon, at any hour. The painting skill will help a Stylist advance in his/her career, so bear in mind it is worth using the drafting table or easel to gain skill in painting and get an alternate income stream. || §182/week || §2,306/week
|-
| Architectural Designer || Architectural design is a powerful creative career path and one that can greatly impact your town. Sims throughout the neighborhood will call your architectural designer sim to do a huge assortment of design jobs, which may include the addition of a man cave, a book nook, a kitchen redesign, or an entire home makeover. Jobs are driven by the clients themselves—and not at random. Traits influence the outcome of a design job, for example:
Artistic Sims want more paintings.
Sims who hate art want less paintings/sculptures.
Snobby Sims want to use all the budget, and even go over-budget a bit.
Frugal Sims want to spend less of the budget, maybe use 70% of it.
Computer Whiz Sims want computers.
Technophobes want less electronic appliances.
Virtuosos want lots of stereos and music systems.
Couch potatoes want more expensive, more comfortable seating.
etc.
|| §272/week || §2,480/week
|}

==Other additional features==
''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' also brings a few other features alongside it. These include new traits, and some different skills.

===Traits===
''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' has a new trait – Eco-Friendly.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er5WUHrC3TY&t=1m43s Relevant part of YouTube Interview]</ref> Eco-Friendly Sims like to cycle to work, use a washing line instead of a clothes dryer, and take pleasure in saving energy any way they can.

===Skills===
There are also new skills in ''The Sims 3: Ambitions''.
These mean that Sims can be self-employed, and make their money through selling things at the Consignment Store in the town.
As with all skills in ''The Sims 3'', they have to be learned, and the more often sims do things, the better they get at them (and in this case, the more likely they are to earn more money from them).

====Inventing====
Using an Inventing tool in that can be bought for lots, Sims can use scrap metal to create objects. They can be small, or large; insignificant or ground-breaking.<ref>In-game tutorials</ref>

=====Detonation=====
As an Inventor, Sims need scrap metal. These can either be bought (at a relatively high price) from the Inventing tool, or it can be collected.
Sims can find plenty of scrap at the local junkyard. They obtain it by blowing it up; they can alternatively find broken objects then fix them.
However, players can also make sims detonate other objects – including other sims' property. They will usually receive a fine for causing public damage, but it can be useful to take revenge on sims that they dislike, or just simply to see a car blowing up.
Detonation within the sim's actual lot is not generally recommended, as (especially with things such as vehicles or computers,<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJg2wL9dJHU YouTube video]</ref> which are highly explosive) it can cause extensive damage and cause house fires.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nTscu-kwgo YouTube video of car detonation]</ref>

====Sculpting====
Sculpting is similar to painting. Using a sculpting table, Sims can design sculptures which can be sold. These sculptures can be made using clay, wood and ice.

==Development==
Scott Evans, General Manager of ''The Sims'' studio said, "The variety of careers to choose from is unmatched and we've never given players the opportunity to follow their Sims to work and affect their actions on the job. The Sims 3 Ambitions changes that. Players' actions at work now directly affect their lives, community and neighbors and become an extremely important part of how the game is played."<ref name="EA Press Release March 2010">{{cite press release|url=http://www.ea.com/news/ea-announces-sims-3-ambitions-expansion-pack|date=March 4, 2010|accessdate=June 5, 2010|publisher=Electronic Arts|title=EA Announces The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack|work=EA Canada}}</ref>

Associate Producer Grant Rodiek explained that career-based gameplay was something that the team had always wanted to do. "We always strive to do something new that hasn't been seen in The Sims before."<ref name="GameSpot Preview">{{cite web
|url=http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3ambitions/news.html?sid=6252806&mode=previews| title=The Sims 3 Ambitions Q&A – Exclusive First Details|date=4 March 2010| work=GameSpot|publisher=CBS Interactive| accessdate=March 11, 2010}}</ref> Rodiek explained the main focus of an expansion pack relied on three elements: community feedback, what the development team wants to do and software limitations.<ref name="NowGamer Preview">{{cite web| url =http://www.nowgamer.com/features/636/ambitious-sims-3-ambitions-interview|title=Ambitious: Sims 3 Ambitions Interview| first=Tom|last=Hopkins|date=8 April 2010|work=NowGamer|publisher=Imagine Publishing}}</ref>
In addition, versions for [[mobile device]]s were released as standalone games.<ref name="EA Press Release March 2010"/>

===Music===
Several famous artists were hired to record songs in [[Simlish]] for ''The Sims 3: Ambitions''. Robi Kauker, Audio Director for The Sims Studio at EA said: "Each time we set out to create a soundtrack for an expansion pack, it's always exciting matching the vibe of the game to the music by our incredible lineup of extremely diverse artists. It's fun hearing hit tracks in the language of The Sims, and I think fans will be pleased to find their favorites songs and artists throughout this game, and will no doubt discover new bands to follow in The Sims 3 Ambitions."<ref name = "Tracklisting">
{{cite press release|title=Rise Against, Lady Antebellum, and Toni Braxton Sing for EA's The Sims 3 Ambitions|website=[[IGN]]|date=May 18, 2010|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/05/18/rise-against-lady-antebellum-and-toni-braxton-sing-for-eas-the-sims-3-ambitions|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>

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|title1 = [[Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)|Need You Now]]
|extra1 = [[Lady Antebellum]]
|length1 = 4:38
|title2 = [[Savior (Rise Against song)|Savior]]
|extra2 = [[Rise Against]]
|length2 = 4:02
|title3 = [[Pyramid (song)|Pyramid]]
|extra3 = [[Charice]]
|length3 = 4:07
|title4 = [[Bang Bang (Melanie Fiona song)|Bang Bang]]
|extra4 = [[Melanie Fiona]]
|length4 = 3:28
|title5 = [[Pulse (Toni Braxton album)|Make My Heart]]
|extra5 = [[Toni Braxton]]
|length5 = 3:27
|title6 = [[Habits (album)|Animal]]
|extra6 = [[Neon Trees]]
|length6 = 3:32
|title7 = [[Shark in the Water]]
|extra7 = [[V V Brown]]
|length7 = 3:02
|title8 = [[Number One Enemy]]
|extra8 = [[Daisy Dares You]]
|length8 = 3:47
|title9 = [[This Too Shall Pass (OK Go song)|This Too Shall Pass]]
|extra9 = [[OK Go]]
|length9 = 3:08
|title10 = [[Blame It on Gravity|Early Morning]]
|extra10 = [[Old 97's]]
|length10 = 2:50
|title11 = [[Good Morning, Magpie|As Long As There Is Whiskey In The World]]
|extra11 = [[Murder by Death (band)|Murder by Death]]
|length11 = 3:15
|title12 = [[No Ghost|Restoration]]
|extra12 = [[The Acorn]]
|length12 = 3:24
|title13 = [[Cooler than Me]]
|extra13 = [[Mike Posner]]
|length13 = 3:36
|title15 = [[Tea Party (song)|Tea Party]]
|extra15 = [[Kerli]]
|length15 = 3:29
|title16 = Come And Get It
|extra16 = [[Eli "Paperboy" Reed]]
|length16 = 3:33
|title17 = Lock My Heart Down
|extra17 = [[Hal Linton]]
|length17 = 3:16
|title18 = Until It's Gone
|extra18 = [[Radney Foster|Radney Foster And The Confessions]]
|length18 = 4:01
|title19 = Setback
|extra19 = [[The Constellations]]
|length19 = 3:42
}}

==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
| GR = 75.93%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/991031-the-sims-3-ambitions/|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions|website=[[GameRankings]]|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| MC = 74%<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-sims-3-ambitions|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions|website=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| GSpot = 8<ref name=gamespot>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/the-sims-3-ambitions-review/1900-6264817/|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions Review|author=Kevin VanOrd|website=[[GameSpot]]|date=June 7, 2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| IGN = 8.0<ref name=ign>{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/06/01/the-sims-3-ambitions-review|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions Review|website=IGN|author=Anthony Gallegos|date=June 1, 2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| PCGUS = 85<ref name=pcgamer>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcgamer.com/the-sims-3-ambitions-review/|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions review|author=Dan Stapleton|magazine=[[PC Gamer]]|date=June 25, 2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| rev1 = ''Den of Geek''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/games/6377/the-sims-3-ambitions-review|title=The Sims 3: Ambitions review|website=Den of Geek|author=Sarah Jayne|date=June 17, 2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''GameZebo''
| rev2Score = 4/5<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamezebo.com/2010/09/20/sims-3-ambitions-review/|title=The Sims 3 Ambitions Review|author=Mike Thompson|website=GameZebo|date=September 20, 2010|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref>
}}

Anthony Gallegos of ''[[IGN]]'' have said that "it doesn't reinvent the series but it's much more substantial than many other Sims expansions".<ref name=ign/> ''[[GameSpot]]'''s Kevin VanOrd on the other hand, called it "a thoughtful and delightful expansion, [that is] full of wit and character".<ref name=gamespot/> Dan Stapleton of ''[[PC Gamer]]'' gave the game an 85 out of 100, praising its new additions and careers.<ref name=pcgamer/>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.thesims.com/en-us/the-sims-3#!expansions/the-sims-3-ambitions}}

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