The Sims 3: Ambitions is a career-based expansion pack and introducesnew career pathways. Such examples of career pathways includefirefighting, investigator and stylist. Fulfilment of duties and tasksassociated with careers are committed by players. Firefighters maintainequipment, extinguish hazardous fires, rescue Sims from burningbuildings and clear rubble. Investigators solve cases and mysteries byconvincing or bribing Sims for information, breaking into homes forclues or stealing items for evidence. Stylists are hired by neighborsto offer fashion advice and provide makeovers. The success or failureof task and duty outcomes is controlled by players.

Implementation of the Skill Careers features increase careeropportunities and enables for self-employment. Self-employed Simsutilize their existing skills to create products, such as paintings,home grown produce or literature works, and profit from their works.

Players will be able to redesign other sims using the tattooing andstylist careers. That tattoo system is complex and allows players tochoose different shapes, colours and layers. The stylist career allowsplayers to redesign outfits and hairstyles of other sims. Sims can berude to customers and give them horrendous makeovers. These two careerswere cited as examples of bridging the create-a-sim mode and live modetogether.

The Sims 3: Ambitions will contain new traits and moodlets designedfor use with the new gameplay features. These include savvy sculpter,eccentric, perceptive, eco-friendly and dramatic.