ipad

i tried out the sims 3 ambitions for the ipad/pod. it's... interesting. not at all the same as far as game play. there are things i like better and things i dislike. for instance, when traveling from home to the town or vice versa, there is a loading screen, much like in the sims 2. however, the load time is really short, so it's not that big of a deal. also, when traveling from home to town or vice versa, the time goes to speed 1 automatically. for most people, i'm sure that's not a problem. but i'm a micromanaging nazi. i don't like any seconds wasted. so i like to pause and queue things up.

oh, yeah, and pausing. it's not so good. when you unpause, it launches you into the high speed! ahhh! wasted seconds! and you can only queue up 3 actions, so that sucks.

i do like the gardening aspect of things. you have a little plot that you have to buy seeds, fertilizer and a watering can to use. you can sell your produce to the grocery store or use it in recipes that you can buy at the corner bistro. no eating out in this game!

the inventory is silly. you can have all sorts of things, but a limited quantity of certain items. like i max out on green pepper storage at 10. each plant i harvested gave me 6, so if i already had 6, the next plant would max me out and i'd lose 2 peppers! traveling from home to town between EVERY harvest is obnoxious.

the job thing is different, too. at some point during work, they give you a challenge. my dude was an artist, so i got to color in a picture to earn a promotion. it's a little hard to do when you only have your finger and a screen, but i managed to get promoted after the 2nd try.

overall, i like the game and will continue to play it when i'm not playing the computer version.