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All Software | Home » » The Sims 3 | | | | | | | 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? | | | Features: | |
• New Seamless, Open NeighborhoodExplore the neighborhood freely.
• New Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine.
• New Realistic PersonalitiesEvery Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality.
• New Unlimited CustomizationEveryone can customize everything!
• The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Release Date:
| June 02, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 512 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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 I Simply love the Sims!Mar 07, 2010
This game is awesome, and the process of purchase was perfect. Everything on time and well received. Excellent.
 Simply not in the spirit of its predecessors.Feb 28, 2010
I really, really wanted to like The Sims 3. I've been a hardcore Simmer since the release of The Sims, and I had faith that this game would not be a let down.
However, The Sims 3 lacks a soul. In order for the game to be playable, you have to download a ton of mods. Without the mods, the Sims are dull, shapeless, and uniform in appearance. "Pudding-faced" as the modding community calls it. While the previous Sims games were very mod-friendly, this new incarnation is not. Not only do you have to spend hours trying to get your game to work after each and every update, but EA appears to go out of their way to make game customization next to impossible.
Since getting the game six months ago, I've had to uninstall and reinstall at least five times. I never had to do that with the previous two games.
To make matters worse, if you can finally get you game to work, it's sort of...boring. It lacks in sim-to-sim interaction, and has no humanity.
Save your money and purchase a mega-back of The Sims 2 expansion packs. I wish I hadn't sold mine.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your time or money on this oneFeb 24, 2010
While Ea promised that this game would be a huge step up, that the gamer would be able to create new and exciting faces, they were being disingenuous. The faces all look like rubber. They should've stuck with the original sims that had realistic faces, like real people.
The "town" that they created, is rabbit hole town. You cannot go into any of the buildings with your sim, nor create any of your own "town" buildings.
They gave less clothing, less furnishings, etc., so that you would have to go to the ea store and buy with real money ( I will not stoop to that level) more items for your game, that should've been incorporated into the game in the first place, as in the original sims. That was EA's best effort by far. (Maxis)But PROFIT obviously is far more important to EA than satisfied customers.
Sims 2 was slow loading just to get into the game. Sims 3 is far worse in loading and slows even more while trying to build and make sims.
This game is not worth the money by any means, and is inferior to the original sims and Sims 2. Ea has mislead its customers and it's a pity that they chose this unrighteous path. Those type of choices never pay in the end.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
AwesomeFeb 20, 2010
I really enjoy playing this game. What I found most interesting is that my "Virtual" son acts like my actual son lol. Its so weird. but I love it lol.
Still plagued with the same boring micromanaging as the othersFeb 16, 2010
I wrote a review for the Sims 2. I can largely copy and paste it because the progression from Sims 2 to Sim 3 is the same as The Sims 1 to Sims 2.
This new version has much better graphics, more realistic movement, and better social options. The Sims 3 has refined the idea of having goals and a purpose to the game a bit more. However, the problem persists in that there's little pay off. You are doing all the same sorts of boring things you've always done. The goals just makes you choose one boring thing over another.
See, the problem with this game is something they did wrong from the get-go in the Sims 1 and Sims 2 and still haven't fixed: Making people eat food and go to the bathroom is boring. Think about life -- real life, your life. What makes it interesting? What resonates? Not taking a shower. It really is our emotional connections and social interactions. But this game addresses it in such an unfulfilling way.
This game misses out on the driving force behind anything we do in real life. Cause, followed by effect. The behavior of the Sims doesn't match the way real people act. For example, you can have a Sim eat too much food and get fat. Once they are fat, they will walk a little slower than they did before. They won't get depressed or need new clothes. They just walk slower. So what? There is absolutely no reason to make your Sim eat too much food in the first place. There should be a benefit of it for the Sim that would make him want to overeat. Maybe it could increase their mood or maybe it could increase their comfort level or maybe their mood or comfort would suffer if they didn't overeat.
This game acts like the only thing that affects our behavior are plainly and simply our physical needs. The game completely misses the psychology and emotions of humans that make us more interesting than animals. We might as well be controlling a pack of bears and having them pick berries and mate and eat and poo. Because that's this game is: mundane micromanaging.
The first time around playing, exploring all the different social options and possibilities is interesting, and it can be fun to take the mechanical boring action on the screen and create your own storyline to it. But the truth is, it does get old quickly. And the expansion packs give you some other stuff to do, but they get old just as quickly, if not quicker.
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