So, 13 days after the first one arrived the Sims 3 World Adventures is finally working - after getting another copy, fighting to get our money back, reporting someone to Amazon, uninstalling 3rd party content and all patches, and uninstalling and installing twice, the game is WORKING! PARTY!

What can I say - it's brilliant. Everybody who has The Sims 3 and likes traditional games on consoles should get this. I thought the Adventures would be a bad thing - I mean, do I really want to to complete what seemed like tricky puzzles just to be able to buy a vacation home and purchase longer holidays and more souvenirs? Nope. But it improves the game so much, whereas before I might have been at a loss as to what I should do now, now I can accept an adventure and enter a tomb or just do the task. The puzzles aren't too easy, but not too difficult either, some require thinking about but it's perfect for me.

And the destinations are so unique. The music is unique, the markets are unique, the tombs are unique, the skills are unique, the buildings are unique.

My score for the game - 9.0. Seriously, EVERYBODY, and I mean EVERYBODY should buy this game. And with that, my estimation of EA has gone up so much ... count on me to get all the stuff packs and expansion packs as soon as they're released!