{"id":32287,"date":"2012-02-10T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32287"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T10:44:35","slug":"the-sims-3-master-suite-stuff-review-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/32287-the-sims-3-master-suite-stuff-review-pc","title":{"rendered":"The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff review (PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff pack is the latest Stuff pack for EA’s hugely popular people simulator – and serves as a slight booster pack until The Sims 3 Showtime pops up in the coming months.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to review these booster packs because they’re just that – a collection of added content to pad your growing collection of goods available to your Sims.<\/p>\n

Is the content you get in this particular pack worth the pricetag of R179? I would say no, no it’s not – but perhaps there is some other value to be had from this minor content boost.<\/p>\n

In a bid to fairly test the mettle of this suite, I went to the core of what it’s about:<\/p>\n

The Master Suite Stuff is mainly focused on adding “romantic” items to the roster, including a few new hairstyles and clothing items (bathroom and bedroom-themed of course) – as well as soft-setting living items – again, mainly focused around bathroom and, ooh la la, the bedroom.<\/p>\n

Candles, fluffy towel racks, love-bed, love couch – you get the picture here.<\/p>\n

At the core, Master Suite is trying to set an obvious mood for lovin’ – so I set off on an adventure to see how that works out.<\/p>\n

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Awesome McAwesome<\/p><\/div>\n

Meet Awesome McAwesome (real name unknown) – he epitomises everything women desire – check that manly body hair; the delightfully masculine unibrow; and a Master Suite additional hairstyle that can only be describes as “similar to Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element.”<\/p>\n

His personality traits are humourless; artistic; ambitious; snobbish; and evil.<\/p>\n

So basically, he’s a hipster – and he’s moved into Sunnyville with one goal – to find love. Ironically.<\/p>\n

And the Master Suite was going to help him do it.<\/p>\n

The McAwesome Trials – in pictures!
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His pad was a bit bland - but with the Master Suite items, it was a bona fide love-pit in no time.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Though he disagreed with my notion that hipsters should eat outside.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After a bit of preening, it was time to set off in search of lady-folk.<\/p><\/div>\n

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While walking down the street, we came across a lovely young lady carrying her baby - it was time for McAwesome to get his flirt on!<\/p><\/div>\n

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As it turns out, it was actually a dude. So after stealing candy from a baby, we went looking elsewhere.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Where better to find women, than at a spa? And better yet, they were fighting! This was the perfect chance.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Julie wasn't buying into McAwesome's advances. Strike one.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Luckily Monica was right there and was much more receptive to McAwesome's forward questions like "are you single?" - clearly, she's a bit of an easy-A. Perfect!<\/p><\/div>\n

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After learning that they shared a snobbish trait, she agreed to go on a date with our budding lover - so naturally they went across the road to the cheap and greasy diner.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The date must have been boring because McAwesome came out and immediately called the lady-man he'd met earlier.<\/p><\/div>\n

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He invited Monica to stay the night, but she said she had to run off. (She literally ran off).<\/p><\/div>\n

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The next day I bought McAwesome a really expensive sports car - to win Monica over by appealing to her shallow nature.<\/p><\/div>\n

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He hit the gym with the same thing in mind.<\/p><\/div>\n

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That night, when Monica came over, McAwesome serenaded her with a bit of nude guitaring - surrounded by the ambiance of the Master Suite candles.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The rest, as they say, is history. The only question that remains - was it worth R179? Well, no. Not really.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the next episode of The McAwesome Trials<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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McAwesome meets Monica's overweight and notoriously self-righteous roommate, Jessica, who does not approve of their public displays of affection.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SPOILER: It doesn't end well.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Won’t give you much bang for your buck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":32323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[813,21,2327,457,2328],"class_list":["post-32287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-reviews","tag-electronic-arts","tag-headline","tag-master-suite-stuff","tag-review","tag-sims-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32322,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32287\/revisions\/32322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}