Get To Work featured active careers and City Living brings career assignments. Players now have the option to work from home in the political, social media and critic career paths. The feature allows you to go to work normally where the Sim disappears, but if you’d rather control them directly you can take an assignment instead. Unlike traveling to the physical workplace like in the Doctor, Detective and Scientist careers, your Sim will be assigned specific tasks to complete around the city where you are in full control.
I had a chance to speak with Producer Grant Rodiek, before The Sims 4: City Living released, about why career assignments were added to the game and what he thinks they bring to the table.
“It's a nice hybrid of more active gameplay and more integrated story gameplay,” Rodiek said. “But it's also not as involved and as minute to minute as active careers from Get to Work.”
Rodiek described the feature as “kind of like Opportunities from The Sims 3” and said he believes City Living has a good mix of both game progression and player flexibility.
“In City Living, I think it's a really great fusion of -- we have a great foundation for telling story and we try to guide you toward those stories a little bit better. There not as open as Get Together, ” Rodiek told iDigi. “In Get Together, it was very much like here’s some cool sandbox tools come up with what you want with it.”
On the other hand, Get To Work is more progression-oriented -- fill the bars, complete the objectives, win the awards style gameplay. City Living also gives you that, but in a more casual way.
“We also have really clear concrete goals to work toward and I think it's a really good hybrid,” Rodiek said. “Here's a goal you can complete, a story you can tell, and we're going to wrap all of that into a very great, thematic, consistent package.”
Rodiek concluded by saying if City Living is the type of pack that if fans react well to, we’ll see more in the future.
“ If you don't cheat, if you work your way up the career, there’s a lot of content there,” Rodiek said. “I’m curious to see how players like it because it's a system we could do more with in the future if they care for it.”
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