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Sims: Hot Date, The

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7.9 User Score:

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Based on 17 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Maxis

Genre(s): Simulation, Strategy

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 13, 2001

Summary

Play matchmaker to your Sims and watch the sparks fly or fizzle. Get them out of the house and into the all-new downtown area where they?ll gossip over a candlelit dinner, buy gifts for their dates or just cruise the Strip in hopes of getting lucky. Will your Sims find true love or be destined to a lifetime membership in the lonely hearts club? [Electronic Arts]

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What The Critics Said

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Maxim Online

Practice makes perfect, and EA/Maxis have cooked up a godly tool that’ll get your feet wet in the dating pool without getting your face slapped.

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Gamezilla!

If you're already a bona fide Sims addict, go out and buy this pack now. It's priced as low as $17 in some places and is definitely worth the money.

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Computer Games Magazine

It sounds stupid, and in many ways it is, but it's pulled off with so much style and flair it's impossible not to be seduced by its charms.

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Computer Gaming World

If you haven’t downloaded the nude patch yet, go and grab it off the Web right now. Hot Date, like most things, is better with a little nudity! [Mar 2002, p.80]

GameSpot

Hot Date's real additions are its expanded social options and its new downtown area...[It] does an extremely good job of making The Sims a more interesting game.

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GameSpy

Hot Date breathes new life into a game that hasn't even come close to dying.

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IGN

This isn't the full-fledged leap that you're looking for -- you'll have to wait for "Sims Online" and the inevitable "Sims 2" for that -- but it's certainly the largest step that the game has taken over the course of its life.

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Game Revolution

The real joy of this expansion rests in sowing the seeds of discontent among the residents of your Sim neighborhoods. Hot Date gives the gamer some great tools for creating angst-ridden relationships, as it introduces more than 40 new social interactions...The most worthy of the Sim expansions.

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GameZone

With the 40 plus new social interactions you have many options when it comes to making and maintaining friends both downtown and in your neighborhood.

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FHM

Certainly the best add-on to date (no pun intended).

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G4 TV

Not only adds more stuff to the Sims canon, it improves and more importantly expands the game in subtle but far-reaching ways.

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Gamer's Pulse

Adds some needed worldly interaction into The Sims, which is a welcome addition to the game.

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Game Informer

The time-passage rate has always been much too high in all Sims releases, but it ends up being a big detractor in this offering. Aside from that, Hot Date is another solid release in this ever-growing franchise. [Jan 2002, p.95]

PC Gamer

It definitely adds more than the two preceding expansion packs, but it’s still a slave to the simplistic mechanics that, for many, start to get old after a few weeks of play. [Jan 2002, p.60]

Yahoo! Games

Hot Date adds an obscene amount of voyeuristic addiction to an already proven immersive experience.

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All Game Guide

By incorporating not only new things to do, but new ways to do them, this add-on raises the level of the whole game, in a manner far beyond that of earlier expansions.

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TotalGames.net

One of the best and most addictive sim-games available at present, and this expansion pack is definitely better value for your simoleans than any of the other add-ons have been.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 50 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Haha gave it a10:
This is a good game and is really fun you can do so much different stuff than on just the original one. I like the sex part.

Chelsy F. gave it a9:
The Sims is an awesome game and with Hot Date it only makes it better. You can do so much more its really kewl. If i could i would play it longer then i do.

Andrea gave it a9:
All the sims games rock. But this one isn't as good because c'mon HOT DATE! But the game is really well!!!...All the sims rock!!

Mandi gave it a10:
It is the best game ever its so addicting i luv it its fun for all ages.

Peter S. gave it a 10:
I think the Sims are the best cause u can make cheats to make them nude and get more money. Man i got lots or games of the sims and its totaly the best game i have eva played.I like it cause u can make dem have sex witch u have babies

Paige K. gave it a 9:
It has awesome gameplay. I've been out off school all week, so i've literally have been playing it all week. It soooo seducive, sorda like a little 8 year-old boy around michael jackson (except in a non-sexual way)

Cassie L. gave it a 10:
The Sims Hot Date, is so addictive once you play for the first time your hooked plus they have awesome websites you can get downloads from and wam your fun is even greater but without all those fancy downloads it is still the greatist game ever created , the sims hot date is the definition of a great time.

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