The Sims™ 3 Barnacle Bay

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The Sims™ 3 Barnacle Bay

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A small beach front town with rolling hills behind. The beach is lined with palm trees with a pirate ship on the shore.

A small beach front town with rolling hills behind. The beach is lined with palm trees with a pirate ship on the shore.

A small town is situated on a bay surrounded by the ocean with sand on its shores. The town has many buildings with lush greenery.

A small town is situated on a bay surrounded by the ocean with sand on its shores. The town has many buildings with lush greenery.

An entrance to a restaurant that is in a large pirate ship. A neon sign of a lobster with utensils is above the door. 3 Sims stand outside in pirate costumes.

An entrance to a restaurant that is in a large pirate ship. A neon sign of a lobster with utensils is above the door. 3 Sims stand outside in pirate costumes.

A Sim in a pirate costume looks frightened as a ghost scares him from behind. Another ghost stands in the background next to a grim reaper statue.

A Sim in a pirate costume looks frightened as a ghost scares him from behind. Another ghost stands in the background next to a grim reaper statue.

A Sim looks frighteningly to the left of her as a single fire lit lamp sits on the ground of a pitch black room.

A Sim looks frighteningly to the left of her as a single fire lit lamp sits on the ground of a pitch black room.

2 scenes with The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay logo in the middle. On the left, two Sims embrace, on the left, a Sims couple walks in front of a pirate ship.
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About the game

Are you looking for adventure? The Sims folks have done it again with The Sims 3: Barnacle Bay for your PC. Make your trip to Booty Bay one to remember with the scurviest pirates to ever sail the Seven Seas. Come by for a visit, and stay for the grog and the beauties to be found along the sandy shores of Barnacle Beach. Take the steps to pirating greatness in your very own buccaneer’s costume, and grab a plate of Hardtack that’ll stick to your bones at Hogan’s Deep Sea Diner. Watch the sun sink over the horizon while you catch yourself a few fish at Ophelia’s Fishing Hole. This expansion isn’t for the lily-livered Sim; it holds adventure and relics never seen before, not even by the likes of Davey Jones. Send your Sims out treasure hunting and bring back the buried gold. Take a peg leg over to the sandy adventure of a lifetime. Or spend your day using the new pirate-themed architecture to bring home the salty life you’ve always dreamed of at your Sim-ple home. But watch yourselves mateys: only the most fearless of Sims can live the life of a pirate.

Platforms

PC, Mac

Languages

Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Swedish

Publisher

Electronic Arts

Developer

The Sims Studio

Release Date

Mar 8, 2011 - 1 PM UTC

System Requirements

Minimum

  • OS

    XP SP2 / Vista SP1 / Windows 7

  • CPU

    For XP 2.0GHz P4 processor or equivalent; For Windows Vista and Windows 7 2.4GHz P4 processor or equivalent

  • RAM

    For XP 1GB RAM / Windows Vista and Windows 7 1.5GB RAM*

  • Hard Drive

    At least 7.1GB of hard drive space with at least 1GB additional space for custom content and saved games

  • Video

    128MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

  • Supported Video Cards

    Nvidia GeForce 6 series or better, and all NVidia G, GT, GTS, and GTX video cards. ATI Radeon™ series card 9500 series or better, and all ATI X, X1, and HD video cards; Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA): GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series

Recommended

  • OS

    64 Bit Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10

  • Processor

    Intel core i5 or faster, AMD Athlon X4

  • Video Card

    NVIDIA GTX 650 or better

  • Memory

    4 GB RAM

  • Hard Drive

    18 GB of Hard Drive space

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