Webounce around a ton of ideas around here for expansion packs, but I can thinkof very few that generated the amount of excitement as the idea for timetravel. When I say “time travel,” I’m not just talking about new technology anda new way of life in a futuristic setting—though that’s a big part of it—but alsoabout giving you the ability to travel to the future and back again, with youractions in the present having repercussions in the future. We knew it was goingto be a challenge to work out the gameplay mechanics to achieve this, but thatwas one of the things we were most excited about.
InThe Sims 3 Into the Future your Sims accomplishtheir time hopping by entering the Time Portal. First we knew we had to makethe new future setting compelling. We set out to build a whole new worldhundreds of years from now, a world that not only looks different but that ispopulated with all-new technology, objects and interactions that will changehow you play with life in surprising new ways.