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Genre: Simulation - Life Sim/Virtual Pet - Publisher: Electronic Arts (EA) - Age Rating: 12+ more

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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...
more...concept is still the same though, as you create your own computerised family and help (or hinder) them in achieving their lifetime dreams. This sim's charisma rating isn't quite as high as he thinks The rest of town is now just as interactive as your sims' home As ever, different sims have very different desires Manage your sims' lives from baby to old age pensionerInstead 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.Key Features Instant expansion: The game includes many feature from the The Sims 2 expansions from the off, including personal inventories, pets, private cars, restaurants and gardening. Sims in the mood: Monitor your sim's six moodlets - hunger, bladder, energy, social, hygiene and fun - to see how they're feeling and what they want to do. Life goals: Every sim has their own wishes and opportunities, including a main lifetime wish - it's up to you whether you help them towards it or purposefully confound them. Wide world: The giant game world not only looks better than ever but means that your sim is no longer just tied to their house, but is able to interact with the whole town. Virtual makeover: The Create-A-Sims tool is more flexible than ever, with the ability to alter weight, fitness, hair and clothing down to the tiniest detail - including freckles and birthmarks! About the Developer: EA Redwood ShoresSituated in the same San Francisco bay area as EA's main headquarters, the Redwood Shores studio has created many licensed games including The Godfather and The Simpsons Game - as well as original titles such as Dead Space. In 2004 it was merged with The Sims creator Maxis.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?





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The Sims 1.5?
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by thereddragon

Advantages: Multiple personality traits, improved object graphics, multiple savegames
Disadvantages: Ugly Sims, 'rabbit hole' community lots, slow AI, poor pathing, feels unfinished, buggy

...to read my updates at the end of this review, which now address many of the problems I found with my review of this game in its original 'straight out of the box' form. Year of release: 2009 Publisher: EA Games The Sims 3 is the latest in the ‘Sims’ life simulator series that began in 2000 with The Sims, in which you create lifelike characters and watch them live out their lives and interact with each other in many and varied, and often hilariously ... Read review

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11.06.2009
The Sims 3 - The Best One Yet?
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by Sonic4290

Advantages: New careers; personality traits; Great graphics and speed on my laptop
Disadvantages: Lack of choices within Create-A-Sim; Could be slow on some users PC's/laptop's

So, The Sims 3. If you're here, you've probably played The Sims before, and are thinking about buying the latest game. Or maybe you're someone who has never played any of The Sims games before and are interested about it. I hope to give you a detailed review weighing up both advantages and disadvantages of the product, which will hopefully guide you into making a decision on whether to purchase it for yourself or not. A LITTLE BACKGROUND INFO ... Read review

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19.08.2009
The Sims 3 Review (Great Game)
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by rothothea123

Advantages: Never gets boring
Disadvantages: cannot turn into werewolf like in sims2

...am very experienced with all the Sims games from the original 'Sims' and it's 'making magic' etc to the new addition of the Sims 3. First Appearance: On advertisements it is VERY appealing, showing us the new and improved version the Sims3 has a complete new feel to it. With more human-like characters and a more varied and random behaviour traits. The sims3 has been packed with many different aspects to make the game last forever and ever without ... Read review

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03.09.2009
The Sims just got bigger and even better!
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by GemmaC25

Advantages: Still very addicting, and a great seamless neighbourhood. Goodbye loading screens!
Disadvantages: Still quite 'basic' whilst we wait for all those inevitable expansion packs.

...you haven't even heard of The Sims before then, well, where have you been?! The Sims took off years ago and is now a huge, best selling popular PC game, along with its never ending expansion packs. First there was The Sims, then came along The Sims 2 and now this year has come The Sims 3, bigger and better than ever before. The Sims is anything you want it to be. You can create a Sim that resembles you, someone famous or just a completely made up ... Read review

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28.08.2009
Loving it so far, but wait for the expansions
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by muffintop80

Advantages: Addictive, fun and still very familiar
Disadvantages: Too addictive sometimes, and a little empty without the expansion packs

I absolutely love the Sims games. Have had every game, every expansion and spent hours downloading additional content to the point that my computer has slowed to a crawl! So, obviously, I was quite excited by the release of the Sims 3. First of all, game requirements. This looked a little scary for me because I recently traded my desktop for a laptop, and worried that it wouldn't be able to cope. I met the minimum requirements, but there wasn't ... Read review

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15.06.2009
Unleashing my creativity
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by kevindye

Advantages: Addictive, fun and easy to play
Disadvantages: Addictive and slightly costly

...Sims', free. After an altercation with the HMV security guard, I purchased the recommended item for a rather costly £34.99, although I had seen it priced up to £40 in some outlets (Zavvi - no wonder they're in administration). Is £34.99 too much to pay for a computer game? Its certainly a high price, despite the games newness, and would require a great deal of justification. I will move onto this later. Incidentally, I also purchased some home-made ... Read review

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29.06.2009
A Let Down? Maybe?
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by burns2007

Advantages: Graphics, Features
Disadvantages: Missing features from Sims 2

...simulate life which therefore explains the name Sim which is short for simulation. This game has been released by Electronic Arts (EA). Sims 3 is obviously the sequel in the series of the Sims range of games thus the number 3. Since the first Sims that was released in 2000 there have been many successful expansion packs and Sims 2 and now Sims 3. With each new Sims release like Sims 2 the designers have always offered something new or fantastic to ... Read review

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11.07.2009
The Sims 3
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by hi_nicola

Advantages: Seamless, traits, Sims are better looking
Disadvantages: Hard to keep track of, game play more complicated

...expansion, and therefore have played the game rather a lot over the years! I have been eagerly following the release of Sims 3, even building a laptop based around it's specs, and so I was very glad when it FINALLY got a release after numerous hold ups! So, what do you do in a Sims game? Whatever you want, really. For me I like to create little families who live out good lives. I like to get them to the top of their careers and into fabulous mansions. ... Read review

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05.06.2009
Sadistic gaming back for more
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by sim721

Advantages: Open neighbourhood, more people to torture
Disadvantages: Too much removed from the previous game which shouldn't of been

...remember when I first received the original sims game. It was a genuinely innovative game that allowed players to "play god" on their own virtual family. For many weeks you would run a proper family realising just how difficult it was to make it in a job and for some reason you were required to have lots of friends to get promotions and get a good job (guess that's why I'm unemployed). Eventually this got boring and the game became simply a torture ... Read review

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08.06.2009
Fresh but Familiar: The Sims 3! Its Bigger, Better & mega fun!
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by bethanamax1

Advantages: Very entertaining with its charming functions.Tools are easier to use than ever.Bags of Content
Disadvantages: Poor with add-ons. Be prepared to pay for additional content. Minor pathfinding issues

...people may be wondering if The Sims 3 is just an expansion on the 2 previous games? Is it more of the same? Is it worth paying for? You wouldn’t be wrong to think of these questions. I hope the following will help with your decision. The Sims is very familiar in its graphics and format to anyone who has played any of the previous Sims games. The familiarity will allow previous players to play at ease rather than having to scramble through a manual. ... Read review

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08.06.2009
It's all Simlish to me!
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by Inviex3

Advantages: Seamless gameplay, amazing graphics, customisable.
Disadvantages: Not quite as customisable as you're led to believe, a bit slow.

...fan of computer games. Especially the Sims. I was addicted to the Sims 2 and had so much custom content that my computer hated me for a while. But in the back of my mind I always thought - "Why can't it be more customisable? Why can't I do this, that and the other?" And as that thought hit me, thus the release of Sims 3 was announced. I shrieked with joy as I found out you could completely customise your characters. I danced with happiness as I ... Read review

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18.08.2009
The Sims 3
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by Danii_Wilson01

Advantages: can leave property without going to load screen, graphics updated
Disadvantages: hard to control, too complicated, too basic

...on screen. Did we really need the luxury of having your sims walk arround the neighbourhood themselves? In my opinion I think not. If I am honest with you, on the previous Sims games, when you orderd your sims to leave there home plot a blue loading screen would appear. Now this screen would annoy me so much and felt as though it was taking forever. After playing both the Sims 2 & the Sims 3 I would prefer the blue loading screen back. The game ... Read review

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16.06.2009
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The Sims 3 - Worth the wait?
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by cpgreen1

Advantages: Fair price, easy to install, £6 free points
Disadvantages: Not as easy as it looks, repetitive, unfinished feel.

...like so many others about the release of The Sims 3 on the PC, well firstly we were all disappointed by the release date being moved and so we had to wait another six months! But then finally it went on sale and I bought it the first day it came out. Now as I sit here writing this, I am bored by The Sims 3 and the whole concept of The Sims. The game claims to be able to do so much more than the original Sims 2. But although the game is slightly more ... Read review

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12.10.2009
The master of the simulation game returns
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by tangoman1984

Advantages: Excellent graphics, simple control system, good game depth, excellent amount of careers on offer
Disadvantages: Lack of things to purchase when first purchase the game but can download add ons

The Sims 3 sees the hugely successful franchise from EA games return with its newest version on the PC following The Sims 2 and all of its expansion packs, The Sims Castaway and The Sims Stories. This is the game all of those who loved the Sims have been waiting for and keeping hope up that it would fix all of those little things wrong with the old versions but does it deliver? First impressions on loading the game were that is once again had an ... Read review

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27.10.2009
The Sims 3 is a solid evolution of the franchise
Review of The Sims 3 (PC) by steociao

Advantages: Explore the whole neighbourhood, lots to do, Sims take care of themselves better
Disadvantages: Doesn't run well on minimum spec hardware

At first glance The Sims 3 is very similar to the previous games - the gameplay follows the same themes of managing your sims lives, building up relationships, skills and career while improving their home with money earned along the way. The Sims 3 follows all of these themes, but improves upon them in many crucial ways to make for a much more satisfying gaming experience. The most obvious improvement is the fact that the town is now a living and ... Read review

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09.06.2009
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