That said, gamers may use any of bot’s seven trait slots for development, adding elements such as solar regeneration or increase power efficiency. For many, tasking Plumbots to manage household chores will be a boon, although the bots do require periodic maintenance and power charging. Although new Plumbots have a limited functionality as the game progresses, trait chips can be added to make these beings sentient as well as increase their autonomy. Sims who augment their bot building skill to the second tier will be able to construct their own automatons at one of the designated building stations. What are the expansion’s strengths? Undeniably, the addition of Plumbots proves to be Into the Future’s greatest addition. Sims fans who prefer a more laissez-faire approach, will be interested by seeing traits and practices (family size, for instance) carried onto future generations. For players driven by achievement, success in the present is immortalized through a Legacy Statue, a feat which also unlocks a distinctive perk.
Should players initiate the leap, they’ll find themselves in a new environment called Oasis Landing and in possession of the Almanac of Time- an inventory item which tracks the trajectory of your ancestors as well as the location of your descendants.īorrowing from Robert Zemeckis’ 1995 film, Back to the Future, amusement comes from tweaking the time/space continuum and observing the results. Inspecting the gateway extends the ability to travel hundreds of years into the future. Even when present-day Sims are on a imprudent path- pushing future civilization toward dystopia, the consequences turn out to be only slightly troubling.įollowing the installation of the Into the Future Expansion Pack, a portal will appear on the town map, accompanied by a mysterious man who functions as a chronologic chaperone. It’s a future where luxuries like jetpacks, robots, and sonic showers remove much of the tedium of existence, allowing Sims to spend their spare time at the local observatory or scour a landscape for artifacts and a crashed ship. With the release of the eleventh (and purportedly last) expansion for The Sims 3– entitled Into the Future, developer Maxis Salt Lake foresees a world saturated with unclouded optimism. What is the concept? Science fiction habitually explores technological determinism, or how a society’s advances shape the development of its social structure and cultural values.