A comparison of The Sims 2: Open for Business and The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Features in both
- Inventing
- Stores
- Cash register
- Salon
- Robotic Sims: Simbot in TS3:A, Servos in TS2:OFB (As well as Servos In MTS and Plumbots In TS3:ITF ).
- The ability to view a sim's workplace.
Features in Open for Business not in Ambitions
- The Shopping District sub-neighborhhod (Bluewater Village) and the ability to attach more shopping districts for a main neighborhood
- Elevators (in The Sims 3: Late Night)
- Kite
- Other robots
- Bakery, though some baked foods exist in The Sims 3, and Ambitions allows a bake sale for children only
- Floricultures
- A Lemonade stand (Replaced by bakery stand, and return as premium content for Monte Vista)
- Fully controlable businesses (the ability to view the business,hire employees and assign them to jobs) (replaced as Store Content)
- Rally Forth Object and Death by Rally Forth (Replaced as death by ranting in The Sims 3: University Life)
- Business Perks, Costumer Loyalty and Setting Prices (replaced as Store Content)
- Flower Arranging and Flower shops (though buying flowers and giving them returns in The Sims 3: Generations)
- Talent Badges such as Cash Registing, Restocking, Cosmetology and Toy Making etc..
Features in Ambitions not in Open For Business
- Laundry (new in The Sims series)
- Tattooing (Some outfits from The Sims 2: University have tattoos with clothing)
- Firefighter, Private Investigator, Architect, Ghost Hunter, and Medical career
- Professions
- Trampoline (in The Sims 2 for PS2 )
- Gnubb
- Sculpting
- Expanded inventing
- Skill careers (Self Employment ) such as Inventor, Gardener, Photographer and Angler
- Time Machines and Miners
- New neighborhood: Twinbrook which is not a sub-neighborhood (Bluewater Village)
- Junkyards, Hangouts and Laundromats
- Scrap
- Education career (In The Sims 2: Seasons)
See also
- Comparison between The Sims base games
- Comparison between The Sims and The Sims 2
- Comparison between The Sims 2 and The Sims 3
- Comparison between The Sims 3 and The Sims Medieval
- Comparison between The Sims 2: Bon Voyage and The Sims 3: World Adventures
- Comparison between The Sims 2: Nightlife and The Sims 3: Late Night
- Comparison between The Sims 2: Pets and The Sims 3: Pets
- Comparison between The Sims 2: Seasons and The Sims 3: Seasons
- Comparison between The Sims 2: University and The Sims 3: University Life