Unlike Twilight vampires where you just look like a douchebag 24/7, dark form vampires are like Buffy vampires that shift form when doing vampire stuff. You have a whole series of scary veins, scars and spooky glowing eyes to design your new vampire Sims. The bright shining stars are the Sims customization options themselves. The furniture is mostly of the Victorian Gothic variety, but the clothes range from pure Victorian to a Gothic-punk look that you might remember from Vampire: the Masquerade. Maybe because I was a bit of a goth when I was in high school, but the wide variety of vampire looks is awesome. On top of the regular aspirations, there are new vampire ones like becoming a master (Dracula), staying as human as possible (Louis), or creating a coven of vampires to keep you company in your eternal solitude (Paris Hilton). There are plenty of possibilities for your vampires. Expect to see plenty of Sims grow old and die in that time, but will you be a Louis or a Lestat? Do you care about the lives of mortals?
Immortality comes in handy here, because you’re going to have to survive for a long time if you want to reach master vampire status. The gameplay is quite a different experience as you spend your time becoming a more and more powerful vampire. It’s like The Sims meets Mass Effect or World of Warcraft. There is a deep talent tree available to you as you level up your vampire from fledgling to master. So what do you do with all this vampire energy? You play with your vampire powers! Turn into a bat, read a Sim’s mind, or just last longer in the sunshine… You have a ton of vampire abilities available to you to explore.Īnd this is where the Vampires expansion pack really surprised me. Not a good way to foster good relations with the mortal folk if anyone else is in the area. Take a big greedy drink, and you’ll leave the Sim lying weakly on the floor or stumbling around afterwards. Your vampire will use their powers to hypnotize the Sim and then indulge. But if you don’t have any friends or don’t care about the feelings of mere mortals, just take it. If you’re friends with a Sim, you can ask nicely and they’ll let you take a much needed sip. When it comes to feeding on other Sims, there are three ways to do this: asking nicely, taking a quick drink, or going savage on them. You can quench your thirst from blood packs, a special plasma fruit, or the traditional method of draining humans. So every day, you’re going to get thirsty and you’re going to need some blood.
Instead of eating, you now have a thirst needs bar. So the expansion offers quite a different experience! Vampires aren’t played the same way as regular Sims because you don’t have a bladder, you don’t eat, and if you hang out in the sunshine for too long you’ll burst into flames and die.
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