Yo. Do you know someone who is a little too obsessed with true crime, or just likes to replicate their entire social group/family, which ends up meeting a sticky end? Well, wake them up carefully, EA has just released the next expansion pack for The Sims 4, Life and Death, in which you take on the role of the Grim Reaper.
Last month, the publisher announced and teased its plans for a sequel to Season 2 (which includes a Bleach bonus event starting on September 24th), and now it’s released the first trailer to give you a sneak peek at the sequel. The DLC will be released on Halloween, October 31st, so what’s in store for you and the virtual version of your now old flame who once did unspeakable things?
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In the trailer you can watch below, EA shows off the full-fledged Burial that it’s bringing to the series for the first time, as well as offering some expanded Ghost gameplay that looks like it’ll fit in perfectly with the improvements to general Supernatural gameplay it’s seen in the past in a few years.
That’s no big deal, though – your friendly neighborhood psychopaths will have the opportunity to pursue two new careers, which should appeal to their long-standing hobby of trying some brazen, deadly pool stair demolition. One is about being an undertaker and the other lets you become a grim reaper.
Here’s a description of the latter: “Work alongside Grim of the Netherworld Department of Death (NWDD) and even travel to ‘The Realm.’ Sims in this profession can experience Reaper training with Kenny, the all-around good guy training dummy, Maintain Grimturn Sims’ scythes, practice harvesting souls on practice dummies, and at higher levels determine the cause of death in harvested souls. Sims who take this profession can even decide which souls they will harvest and where they will be. Which souls are resurrected, and once retrieved, the soul can be placed in the Nether Portal to satisfy the soul quota.” Charming.
“Adventure into the haunting kingdom of Ravenswood,” reads a news article summarizing all the content in the expansion, “where three distinct communities await to be explored, each with a connection to the shadows between life and the future. Passages have their own connections. Your Sims will have the opportunity to make bucket lists, resolve lingering loose ends in the afterlife, wield new ghostly powers to unleash chaos, mercy, or something in between, Even experience rebirth.”
In addition to drafting at the aforementioned funeral, the expansion “lets Sims experience four types of grief: Denial, Solidarity, Anger, and Melancholy” and do things like write a will, because of the video game.
As mentioned earlier, Dead and Alive will be released on October 31st, with a gameplay trailer released on October 17th.