Roaring Heights Plaza / Roaring Heights Festival Ground There are a total of 97 lots in Roaring Heights: 35 commercial, 21 empty and 41 residential lots. Main article: List of uninhabited Roaring Heights lots Beach Drive in particular bears some semblance to Ocean Drive in Miami and to the street with the same name from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The city hall is based on Buffalo City Hall and the lighthouse is based on a lighthouse in Kálfshamarsvík, Iceland. The layout and architecture of the world is based on Miami, New York, and Chicago according to SimGuruTaterTot and SimGuruBrett on The Sims 3 Live Broadcast - Roaring Heights Gameplay video.
Public speakers can be found at Luminous Bar and Bar-Bell's Gym, which play classical music. A fair amount of Roaring Heights' citizens are references to famous people from the 1920s to 1940s, either by name, or as a direct spoof.Īs a result of the 1920's inspiration, all of the houses in Roaring Heights lack modern technology ( TV's, computers, stereos, etc), making it the oldest-themed world in The Sims 3, even more so than Dragon Valley (which had some computers). The 'heights' is possibly referring to the height of the buildings.
This world seems to take after a theme of 1920s to 1940s-inspired fashion and architecture, and the name of the town is probably a reference to the term ' Roaring Twenties', which refers to Western (English speaking and European)- society and culture in the 1920s.