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The Sims 4: Island Living for PC is the seventh expansion pack for the Sims 4, which is the fourth major release in the life simulation game series that has been taking the world by storm since its inception in the late 1990s and release in 2000. The game has gone from strength to strength and this expansion pack takes the Sims to a tropical island to get to grips with sun, sea and getting on with living their best lives. About the Game The main game, Sims 4, is much like the previous editions in the series, except this one is set in an alternative location to the other games, allowing for different infrastructures and neighbourhoods to be built, should the player so desire it. There are a host of new careers in this game, as well as the addition of features that were not able to be included in previous incarnations. These include ghosts, swimming pools, basements and even toddlers – almost like one’s old school friends popping up several years later, a handful of children in tow and being all grown up, the Sims in this game have evolved somewhat! The Land is Beautiful While often the location of Sims homesteads is rather bland and featureless, waiting to be filled up rather than offering any natural beauty by themselves, this expansion pack is different. You can watch a volcano erupting – from a safe distance, of course, and you can even try to enrage the island’s elemental spirits to cause such as eruption! Lava is always beautiful to behold, and this is the case in this game too. Just don’t let your Sims get too close to the molten stuff, it is unlikely to do them much good, healthwise! Otherwise, each lot in the game features a backdrop of rolling hills and a gentle gradient down towards the beach where the Sims can lie in the sun and get a tan. As mentioned above,