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The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle
Released On: Jun 5, 2020
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3.5
All Platforms
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
82
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
82
82% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Mostly cool looks and hard work make for an eco-friendly expansion that inspires.
The Eco Lifestyle expansion feels new and fresh even this far into the game’s lifespan. Another game-changer for The Sims 4, and a true home run for Maxis.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
3.5
18% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
18% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
64% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
3.5
18% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
18% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
64% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
I like this expansion.... well, i like the idea of it. It is very disappointing that it does not dare to go further than a simple mechanic when it comes to environmentally friendly living.
All in all the pack has the potential to go 100% environmental .. but only reaches to 5% or 10% of its potential. So what we get is less than skin deep. Cosmetical at best. My sim does not even get sick more often in smog than in eco green neighbourhoods.
I do like the new map very much though (the green neighbourhood) .. with the "lived in" feeling.
So, why an 8/10? There is potential! .. i would hope a Sims 5 (maaaybe a more realistic one for a change?) could dare to go fully into this direction. Make choices really matter. Other than that, Sims is always a blast to play every now and then.
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I don’t think this expansion deserves the rave critic reviews. It’s just OK compared to others. My biggest gripe is the number of bugs it introduced. From future Cubes, clay balls, white cake, and the worst feature bug ever - the dredded “sharing is caring” NAP that destroys hard-built builds permanently and kills gameplay. I think critics play for a few hours In the one world and love the pack, but play a little linger and sharing is caring will destroy the game. The only way to fix it is to know how to
Employ the cheats to remove the NAP from every neighborhood in the game!
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This DLC goes straight to the top of our favorite The Sims 4 expansions (only surpassed by Seasons)
Despite the game's bugs, The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is a welcome surprise that surpassed my expectations. Even if you're like me and the idea of off-the-grid living doesn't interest you, there's still enough in this pack that makes it worth a look - just don't expect as much replayability as The Sims 4: Seasons.
The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle is an impressive expansion that emphasises not only green living but also community. The biggest success stems from how the core features come together in a cohesive way to make your neighbourhood feel connected, backed by Evergreen Harbor's memorable world.
Apart from some minor issues with gameplay and the initial lack of depth to the neighborhoods despite how full they look, The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle is a unique, choice-based experience that offers tons of new features allowing players to tell new stories with their Sims. The features in this pack can affect every other world available in the game, making it, like Seasons, feel like a pack many Sims fans soon won't be able to play without.
Overall, Eco Lifestyle has been an average experience, though to be fair I am not overly interested in the concepts presented in the expansion. In general I have a lot more fun in packs with nightlife, celebrity, magic, and supernatural concepts, and it has been that way for me throughout all of The Sims games. It is pretty neat that your actions have an impact on the map and you see changes, be it negative or positive, but I personally didn’t feel the need to do anything else once I had my neighborhood cleaned up. Evergreen Harbor itself isn’t a very interesting map to live on, and I don’t see myself continuing on with the Sim or game I started on it.
The concept of the pack is interesting and is quite enjoyable when you first use it , the concept of dumpster diving is quite interesting and the world changing based on how green you are. The apartments are a decent addition . However , the weekly neighbourhood votes are annoying especially the caring is sharing. This pack is kind of meh and I just think something is missing.
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The Sims 4 base game is the weakest and every pack fail to deliver the idea behind its name no matter how! Its limited and it feels like something is missing. Almost 6 years and still the same.
Dlcs will not fix a bad base game. In fact every dlc for The Sims 4 looks bad comparing to The Sims 2 or The Sims 3. Thats because how bad the base game is.
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It is a strange pack. As all of the **** misses something. It is not complete. The authors of the game are so busy making a great animation that they forgot about the content and the things that made Sims3 a phenomenal game. They want us to buy more and more packs because we miss challenges in the game. So we buy it but oh, it is boring again! This was the last pack I bought because I am not going to play this manipulation game with the EA authors. And making some packs so ridiculously small (it is probably just some garbage from their garage) is another point that confirms they want to **** money out of people and don't care about the quality. Sims4 is a trash.
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This was a boring theme and was incredibly buggy on release. I ended up completely disabling the eco aspects. I had to seek out modders who fixed the mistakes of the developers to make the pack not break my game completely.
Just to give you an example of the horrors of this pack: I was eating out in a restaurant when a stranger wondered over to my table and stole the table we were dining at along with both of the chairs, our meal, and our drinks. At first I was stunned then I found out it's an intended function of the Eco-Lifestyle pack. It's part of a sharing N.A.P. or neighborhood action plan. I soon discovered that most of my furniture had been stolen from my home and all local businesses were now nearly empty,
It doesn't stop with that. Some of the other N.A.P. actually encourage/cause married couples to cheat on one another. There is one that shuts down all of the power to your home. So you are literally just sitting in the dark doing nothing for the entire day. They also try to encourage you to feed your sims nasty insects to "save the environment". Yes, you heard that right. You will now see insect based dishes in your food list when you choose to cook from the fridge menu. The whole thing is a mess of propaganda. The only way to stop this insanity is to completely disable autonomy of the system. So basically you just wasted your money buying the pack to begin with.
The new neighborhood is one of the smallest yet as well. The only part I actually enjoyed was the addition of solar panels and the generator was cool too, but running it turns your neighborhood into a smoggy deathtrap where sims are swarmed to death by **** thinks of these things and puts them in a pack? Then clears it for release?
This was The Sims 4's last chance from me. I will not buy any more digital content for the game again. Honestly, modders make better content for free anyway.
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Summary Ready for your Sims to impact their world? Move into a community of fellow collaborative makers in The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack!* Play to change and make a difference in the new world of Evergreen Harbor. Help your new neighbors decide on a Community Space Project, reduce your eco footprint, and watch your neighborhood transfo...
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- PC
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Jun 5, 2020
Developer:
- Maxis
Publisher: Electronic Arts
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