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The Sims 3 (PC/Mac DVD) |  | From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Rating:  377 reviews
Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: life-simulation-games
Media: CD-ROM
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: SIMS3PC
EAN: 5030930060879
Release Date: June 5, 2009
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| • | Step into the world of the Sims with the Sims 3 and take a look around this latest version of the hit game! With so many more customisable and controllable features, the Sims 3 offers total freedom! |
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Product Description
The game that first opened up the world of video games to a wider audience is back, going beyond being just a virtual dollhouse to a complete interactive neighbourhood. The basic concept is still the same though, as you create your own computerised family and help (or hinder) them in achieving their lifetime dreams.
Instead of just dealing with one house at a time though, your whole sims town is part of one continuous map, with neighbours going about their business independently. Likewise your own family can explore at will and interact with any and all buildings and people.
Once fully grown a sim can have up to 60 personality traits - from loner to flirt - all of which you can influence via their environment and the people they interact with. However you want to play and whatever you want to do it's easier than ever to create your own virtual soap opera. - New Seamless, Open Neighbourhood - Explore the Neighbourhood Freely: See the sights with your Sims! The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved one and friends or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims.
- New Create A Sim - Create Any Sim You Can Imagine: In addition to the open, living neighbourhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever. Create-a-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customise just about any Sim you can imagine.
- New Realistic Personalities - Every Sim Is A Unique Person, With A Distinct Personality: With the innovative and proprietary Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3, you can attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape yo
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 377
 It's brilliant August 29, 2010
M. Sayers (Stoke, England)
The Sims is the greatest computer game of all time, and the 3rd is no exception, briliant concept, just amazing, and if you haven't played the 2nd the advancement in the games is outstanding, even if you have its still shockingly good
 Very Good August 28, 2010
dinkle life (east england)
Don't buy this game thinking it's an improvement of The Sims 2. It's not. What it is is a whole new branch of The Sims 2. Its predecessor may have many more Buy Mode Objects, hairstyles and clothes, but this game makes up for what it deprives you of in other ways. There's so much more to explore- the whole game is full of things to investigate. You can write books and publish them, letting other Sims read them in the library. Or you can fish for exotic creatures, plan a perfect garden, run around the neighbourhood, steal from other Sim's houses, pursue a career such as Military or just raise a family at home. It takes the obvious basics from TS2 and evolves in a different direction. But be careful - make sure you make a story to pursue or it can get boring. Just filling your Sim's needs and sending them to work often dulls the whole experience. I found needed to take advantage of the seamless world and the lack of loading screens. Breakout the house like you never could in The Sims 2.
Traits come into play well. Discovering other's traits is fun in itself. The Create-A-Style is awesome! You can spend hours just planning the bathroom down to the smallest detail. The camera is very nice as well: You can sitting with your Sim at home, and then whoosh! You'll be zooming over the whole neighbourhood, watching the sea sparkle, the cars roam and the people converse far below you, before settling in the gym where another Sim is working out on the other side of town. Plus the town that comes with the game is absolutely beautiful, I just love 'walking' the camera around, looking at everything...
 Fails to live up to expectations August 23, 2010
S. Witkowski-Baker (London, England)
When I made the leap from The Sims to The Sims 2, it was an enormous step forward. I was awe-struck by the amount of new gameplay possibilities, the new features, but also the incredibly impressive look and feel which it had. Along came some genuinely innovative expansion packs, and I was borderline obsessed. As I was very excited for The Sims 3, I have to say that I was genuinely dissapointed by it. At first it seemed to come with some cool new game features - I do like the 'attributes', and the prospect of designing every object in the house to my specifications seemed to open up a great deal of potential. However, as time went on I realised that for Sims 2 fans who were used to playing with all the expansion packs, The Sims 3 was initially very limited. The fact that EA/Maxis have decided to maximise profits by including barely any of the Sims 2 expansion pack capabilities into the Sims 3 made me realise straight away that in order to get to a similar amount of gameplay potential, I would have to wait for the expansion packs, and then pay for each one. It is, of course, expected of a company to maximise profits, but to me it was insulting to the faithful fans of the series to force them to start over with a blank slate.
For me, the Sims 3 is simply not different enough from The Sims 2 to make it worth playing, compared to my fully expansion-pack-loaded version of The Sims 2. I've long since given up on The Sims 3. When you really get into it, the ability to customise is not vast, because the fabrics and structures are still limited, so ultimately it's not dramatically different from downloading or creating your own recolours of maxis objects, or indeed new meshes. I also felt that the graphics actually took a step down from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3. I found it less colourful, and the sims all seemed to look the same somehow. I was left completely unimpressed, and if you're a Sims 2 fan who has collected the expansion packs and downloaded some custom content, my advice is that upgrading to The Sims 3 is just not worth the money.
The sims 3 review August 23, 2010
Poodle
The game is very good but the instructions aren't clear and it can be quite slow (no, its not my laptop) But overall, its good.
Great fun, but with a couple of niggles August 21, 2010
Mr. K. Brown (UK)
The sims series are acclaimed for being so addictive, while only having a rather mundane theme. But nonetheless, that should stop you playing and enjoying it.
I will warn buyers now, if you use an ATI Graphics chipset upgrade to the newest version before you install, as this game REALLY disagrees with some older drivers and especially the catalyst 9.9 version.
Aside from that rather annoying driver disagreement the game has pushed the boundaries once again, but with some disappointment on my part. The fact you can see and explore the whole town is great, and the added bonus of collectables is fun, but there is the fault that you can only use one household at a time, and switching households causes the family to lose a lot of what you've given them (especially the wishes and lifetime happiness points the sims have now) so should you have a newly married kid move out you have to choose: Parents or Child. So you no loonger mangage the whole neighbourhood, only one family, making life a little more difficult.
The new customisation feature is by far the best new feature, allowing any item to be customised by adding a different pattern or colour. The items no longer come in set colours, but in set styles, you can edit up to 4 colur channels on each item. Wallpaper and tiles also fall into this as they no longer have set colours, but set patterns and you choose the pattern's colours
Overall a great game and worth the money
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