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The Sims 3
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Platform: Windows Vista Windows XP Mac OS X
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| Product Details |
ISBN/ASIN: B00166N6SA
Release Date: 2009-06-02
Sales Rank: 81
Average Rating: 
Media: DVD-ROM
Platform: Windows Vista Windows XP Mac OS X
Format: CD-ROM
Product Group: Video Games
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| Product Description |
| The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?! New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between! Choose your Sims’ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories. Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They are complex individuals with unique personalities. Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to flowers, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns giving you endless personalization options. Or you can populate your Sims’ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottages? |
| Customer Reviews: Average Rating: 3.0/5 | | Good and bad: Rating: 3/5 |
| This new sims game has some new features that are good and some not so good. Having had both previous sims games I found it a bit difficult to navigate at first. Personally I would not buy the new game, just play the old one and save some money. |
| | Great game: Rating: 5/5 |
| Don't let the 1 star reviews keep you away from this game. The Sims 3 is a must have for sim fans. Most of the people who gave this game low reviews did so because their computer can't run the game. Or they have a bad graphics card. My computer is over 5 years old and I can run the game just fine. I have a very good graphics card. That's very important. The graphics in this game are gorgeous. Yes, the sims 3 is different from the previous games. It's supposed to be different. It's a new game. In the sims 3 you can do many things that you wanted to do in previous games like click on a neighbor's house and actually go inside and visit them. You can visit any place on the map that you can click on. Some places like the grocey store, you can't see inside. Who cares though? It's a grocey store. It's not that exciting. My biggest complaint when this game came out back in July was story mode. In story mode, the neighborhood changes without your imput. Sims get married, age die etc. Sounds good, right? It's not. In the Sims 3, you have to choose an active household to play. each time you want to switch between homes, you have to designate that home as an active household. Lets say you have two families. The Perez family and The Jones family. You are currently playing the Perez family. You decide to switc to the Jones family. While you are playing the Jones family, the Perez family will continue to play without you. They were get job promotions, get fired, die, marry, kids will get kicked out of school, etc Sucks, right? I hated that. EA knew many sim fans wouldn't like the storyline gameplay so they added the option to turn it off. The only problem was that the option did not work. For months I was forced to play only one family. I am one of those players who likes to control everything. I did not want my family playing without me. EA made several patches and claimed to fix the storyline toggler. After several months it was finally fixed. Now we can play with the storyline mode turned off. The sim families you don't play are still sort of active, but no major life changes happen while you are playing another family. The only gripe I still have is that even with the storymode turned off, sim kids don't always go to school or do their homework. It's weird because they automatically do these things when I play with them, but when I switch homes they suddenly forget to do anything. So, if you do choose to get this game and play the game like I do..don't play one family for more than a couple of days. You need to check in on the families to make sure you're not losing any kids. It's not my preferred way to play, but it's playable. I wish the playmode was the same as the sims 2 were my families would not play while I was playing a different family. This game is enjoyable enough that I don't let that one problem ruin the experience for me. |
| | I can't get enough of Sims 3!: Rating: 5/5 |
Really, I'm somewhat dumbfounded by all of the complaints about Sims 3. Even the price, although not as low as I'd like - but, literally, they never are - is comparable to the average game, be it for a console or a computer.
As one who hesitated to jump on the Sims 3 bandwagon - I was more than happy playing Sims 2, thank you very much, with all of the expansions that I had to go with it - I got hooked on Sims 3 pretty much right out of the box.
I'm an artist, and an art teacher, so the selection of colors and patterns for various items just never quite had as much variety as I would've liked in Sims 2. There was always another pattern or color scheme that, if only it was available somewhere, would make that ___________ JUST right for my game. Now, with the customization options, there is really no way to run out of options for decor and design of the countless items that are customizable in the game (I am a little puzzled as to why stairs are fixed, when so much else has been made customizable, but that's no biggie).
I also love the scavenger hunt-type aspect that you can employ in the game, in that you can travel the map to search for and find various things. Go out and search for different types of rock containing gems and ores. Look around town for different seeds that you can take back home and plant, and start a garden. Head down to the nearest body of water and go fishing. There are SO many fun little things that have been added in that enhance my game play, that I seriously feel as if there just aren't enough free hours in my day to spend "Simming" in this version of Sims!
Of course, as you'd expect with a new game release, the graphics are pretty great. They were pretty great, given, in Sims 2, but here they've just been made that much crisper, cleaner, and more realistic. The way the water looks and moves alone is beautifully done. And the options for personality quirks and adjustments that have been added in really make for fun creation sessions.
Honestly, I never expected to get so hooked on any version of the Sims. I remember getting the first Sims game with the purchase of my computer WAY back when, and couldn't figure out what the heck everybody was raving about. I must admit, I didn't know where to begin with what, and hadn't taken the time then to actually read the manual, so much of the fun that I might've had with the first version went out the window, and I never bothered to go back to it. At the beginning of this year, I started playing Sims 2, and was determined to keep going with that version to get my money's worth from what I spent on the game and its expansions. But now, with Sims 3, I'm just having SO much more fun playing, and I honestly can't wait for the World Adventures expansion to come out so that I can continue with my daily dose of fun in new, foreign locales! I am SO hooked on this, and I think most people would find themselves in the same situation, if you just give this game half a chance! |
| | Beautiful but shallow: Rating: 1/5 |
| The graphics are undeniably great - the waves and rolling hills almost look real. And yes, it's nice that you can move from one screen to another without a loading screen (though there is a delay). However, some major changes (you can only play one household at a time now. Switching to another makes all others NPCs and resets saved wishes, among other things) are completely counter to the spirit of previous Sims games. Even supposed improvements like the personality traits only add a superficial level of difference among Sims - they have lost all of the charm and individuality that made Sims so quirky and likeable. A huge disappointment. |
| | Blues Screen: Rating: 3/5 |
| I can install it correctly and play if for a bit and then i get a dump memory screen. This is crap but you can get by it with the proper knowledge. |
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