Sims 3: Ambitions now available for Mac and PC

EA, maker of popular lifestyle/torture simulator The Sims 3, has announced that their latest expansion—which allows players to follow their characters into the workplace—is available today for both Mac and PC for $39.95. And seeing as how the game has steadily gotten goofier over time, the career paths being offered are…”unique,” shall we say?

The Sims 3 Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. Players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, dole out experimental medicine as a doctor, save lives as a firefighter, and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. For the first time, players will be in charge of how their Sims’ career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs, change the town for the better or wreak havoc on everyone’s homes.

When I first played the Sims (the original version), I likened it to becoming Aaron Spelling, allowing you to manipulate the lives of normal people into ridiculous plots of adultery and violence. But what you’re really doing is taking mindless automotons and putting them in prefabricated and ridiculous situations. Which, of course, makes it reality TV.

Seriously, look at this job list: ghost hunter, invetor, investigator? I can only imagine they left out “cake decorator” because it’s going to get its own standalone expansion (or three). At any rate, the game will also feature new songs (in “Simlish”) by Lady Antebellum and Toni Braxton, and will eventually be available in mobile versions for iPhone and iPod touch.

Persons who are interested in new ways to wreck havoc on the lives of computer people (and I think that’s just about everyone, isn’t it?) are invited to learn more at the official Sims 3 Ambitions page.