The Sims 3 (PC) > Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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