The Sims 4: City Living

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 75 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 34 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 75
  3. Negative: 26 out of 75
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  1. Anach
    Nov 25, 2016
    5
    I have a ridiculous amount of hours in all the Sims series, totalling thousands of hours, and currently sit at 260 hours on Sims4, but I don't understand why City Living is getting such high review scores. With each expansion that has been released, we've got a good amount of content, that has added a great deal of game-play (camping, restaurants, active careers, spas, clubs) and added newI have a ridiculous amount of hours in all the Sims series, totalling thousands of hours, and currently sit at 260 hours on Sims4, but I don't understand why City Living is getting such high review scores. With each expansion that has been released, we've got a good amount of content, that has added a great deal of game-play (camping, restaurants, active careers, spas, clubs) and added new worlds along with it. These packs have given hours worth of entertainment, in either Game Pack or Expansion format. City Living, on the other hand, has got to be the most disappointing expansion so far, and would have been better suited to being a "Game Pack", rather than an expansion, because it was too expensive for what it added. Apartments are OK, but build restrictions mean most wont be moving from their 6 story house to 2 floor apartment. The bars are very bland, with no live music, except for the odd karaoke singer. The activities will give you a couple hours of new game-play before you are done, unless you like spending hours protesting or being a "living statue". The new careers are OK, but are never going to compete with the more active "Get to Work" careers, or running your own business.… Expand
  2. imdanielaplin
    Nov 9, 2016
    7
    "The Sims 4: City Living" is the new Expansion Pack for "The Sims 4". City living adds some major new features including The Apartments, which are the best use of Apartments in any expansion for "The Sims" franchise although you can't build your own. The Festivals, although the Humor And Hijinks and Romantic festivals lack gameplay and then theres the brand new city of San Myshuno, which"The Sims 4: City Living" is the new Expansion Pack for "The Sims 4". City living adds some major new features including The Apartments, which are the best use of Apartments in any expansion for "The Sims" franchise although you can't build your own. The Festivals, although the Humor And Hijinks and Romantic festivals lack gameplay and then theres the brand new city of San Myshuno, which is the best neibourhood or should i say city to TS4 to date. Overall "The Sims 4: City Livings" adds lots of new features including the ones spoken about above and is a must have to all Sims fans. I give 2016's "The Sims 4: City Living" a 8/10.… Expand
  3. JasonSterling
    Nov 7, 2016
    6
    A good game that could have been great. City Living cosmetically is the best executed "urban" environment to date of any of the Sims iterations given it's graphical style. There are numerous new items to play with and events to explore. Five different festivals, some right out your door and accessible without a loading screen where you can try different foods, meet sims, engage in contestsA good game that could have been great. City Living cosmetically is the best executed "urban" environment to date of any of the Sims iterations given it's graphical style. There are numerous new items to play with and events to explore. Five different festivals, some right out your door and accessible without a loading screen where you can try different foods, meet sims, engage in contests and shop. You have three new careers that provide the option of an active working from home job without the ridiculous grind of GTW and which allow you to conduct part of your work day in the plaza outside your home- again without a loading screen. There are two new items designed to allow your sim to create their own "street business" selling collectibles and art and your sim can enter the world of sidewalk entertainment earning money through tips by playing instruments (including a new keyboard) and pretending to be a living statue (I personally love this as I've seen them all over Europe in the past-lol)- like above, these new business ventures can be done right outside in the plaza without loading screens. Want to be "neighborhood famous"? Karaoke makes it's return with three bars in the city with fireworks you can light off behind the podium for the true "star quality" effect. The new "apartment" system works to provide an environment that does feel different from the living situations in the other Sims 4 towns. The environment does feel immersive and while there is bleed over from the base game in interactions and even Buy mode it's to be expected to some extent and could have easily been overlooked by the player under different circumstances. The "open plaza" provides so many more interactions, off your home lot without going through a loading screen- dining, shopping, work, special events- that it can't be overlooked as a significant, positive change adding realism.

    Unfortunately the above comes at the price of a straight jacketed system with very little room for player innovation and massive game breaking bug/issues that should have been easily caught and dealt with before release. While a game shipping with bugs has come to be the industry standard, this one has set a new bar with even one of it's primary features (an open festival plaza) being rendered useless by poor programming that fails to remove all the previous festival contents before loading in the standard plaza make-up or the next festival, should your sim chose to leave the festival early. Beyond that the build mode where it is not simply non-existent also has numerous problems, mostly for non-builders looking to download structures from the gallery, from a mislabeled/mis-designed penthouse lot size that shears off the sides and takes a huge chunk out of the corner of lots- to penthouse lots not being built with the ability to add foundations and fountains causing the disappearance of ground assets like furniture, landscaping ect- to various minor bugs within the "apartment" shell being unbuildable due to the game reading small areas near the edge of the rooms in some units as being outside the unit- to non-animated elevator spawn points that can't be used on any but the three penthouse lots and then on only one floor (there's no reason for this btw- I found a build trick that will allow placement on more then one floor and the mechanism works when additional units are placed)- to lot traits being locked into some apartments without the option to be removed by the player, ever or placed on another lot by the player, ever - to the somewhat major issue of only eight player buildable lots in the entire city- to the truly major issue of "apartments" being designed so that they cannot be built by the player/ placed by the player within Myshuno or placed in any other world within the game. The apartment design, while feeling different, I fear will see a sharp decline in novelty as the player progresses. Already, after only a few hours of play, there are numerous repeats in interaction. My neighbors telling me to get a life and go to the lounge was funny and cute the first... ten times in a row but as it's repeated again and again and again it's losing luster as is my landlord refusing to fix stuff with the same exact message over and over. At least there should have been an option for your call to just go to voice mail then the repeated statement over and over and over would make sense. There are a host of other more minor bugs in the package but as I stated, that, unfortunately, is the industry standard.

    So, is it worth 40 dollars? No for the reasons stated above. It is fun and it is worth something but full price should be reserved for AAA titles which the Sims seems to have dropped interest in maintaining. I've subtracted 25% of my score due to the apartment issues and another 10% due to the bugs because I am assuming that they will be fixed after we have paid EA to beta test the game for them. So it's a 65% game. I'd pay that much or less.    … Expand
  4. thebestbarmy
    Nov 7, 2016
    7
    É muito bom, mas não chega a ser o melhor pacote de expansão do The Sims 4. Os apartamentos, os vizinhos, os distritos, os festivais, os karaokês, as coberturas
  5. disappointedgam
    Dec 26, 2016
    5
    EA continues to milk the stone. This expansion makes the game closer to what it should have been at launch, and it is finally at a point where it is kind of enjoyable. I recommend waiting for the steam sales where the Sims 4 and each expansion is 75% off, though.
  6. TobiasC9
    Oct 14, 2017
    6
    "Vida Na Cidade" é uma expansão que explora os apartamentos, a vida na cidade grande, eles acertaram na cidade, na ambientação dela, mas pecaram nos apartamentos mal feitos, nos limitados conteúdos (como sempre), levando em conta que a ideia do jogo é ser otimizado como nunca, porém todas as limitações atrapalham na jogabilidade com toda certeza, o jogo e suas expansões deveriam ser muito"Vida Na Cidade" é uma expansão que explora os apartamentos, a vida na cidade grande, eles acertaram na cidade, na ambientação dela, mas pecaram nos apartamentos mal feitos, nos limitados conteúdos (como sempre), levando em conta que a ideia do jogo é ser otimizado como nunca, porém todas as limitações atrapalham na jogabilidade com toda certeza, o jogo e suas expansões deveriam ser muito mais ricas.Apesar de vários erros na expansão, me diverti jogando com ela, mas é algo que vai enjoar, pois é muito pobre e vazia.… Expand
  7. LindaRavz
    Feb 27, 2021
    5
    Apartments are good, but the house doesn't feel alive. Why load up in the next apartment? Why do the neighbors come out of them so little at all? Can't something be done like in The Sims 2? Thank you that this is at least something, and not like in The Sims 3. Special thanks for the features, they really bring a new gameplay.

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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. NZGamer
    Jan 19, 2017
    90
    City Living gives us a township full of life that’s easy and fun to explore. With new ways to do jobs and fun interactions with neighbours, this is one expansion any Sims lover should add to their collection.
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  2. CD-Action
    Jan 13, 2017
    65
    Discovering new additions is fun, but it does not last long, because the game gets repetitive quickly. [01/2017, p.71]
  3. Worth Playing
    Jan 4, 2017
    93
    The Sims 4: City Living encourages you to be constantly out and doing things. In a word, it is refreshing. It's precisely what I felt was missing from the base game of The Sims 4 and from every expansion since. My only true criticism of it is that it's an expansion. I wish that the base game could've felt as real as City Living does, and I wish I didn't have to spend $40 on top of the $40 for The Sims 4. If you've been holding off on The Sims 4 until That One Expansion, City Living is the one.
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