User Reviews

1. Review Date: 2009-11-21

   The Sims has always been a fun game. With Sims 3 you have more free range, you don't have to wait on load screens, you can go anywhere in the city/neighborhood. Visit neighbors, friends, go to work, library, park, fishing, grocery, etc either by walking, jogging, bicycle, car or taxi. Yes you can take your children with you, except for work of course. A few things I miss from The Sims 2, a changing table for the baby, going to the icebox to get a baby bottle, the length of pregnancy is short, like 3 sim days. Once your ready to have the baby you can have the baby either at home or at the hospital. The one thing I don't like about the Sims 3, is when you go into a building, grocery store, book store, hospital etc you don't get to see the inside or whats going on. Once your sim goes inside they just kinda of fade away. Same with kids at school. Yes I know I am picky, or nosey but I like to see whats going on. The one thing I wish The Sims 3 had was where you can sit down with your kids. rock your babies that kind of thing. Other than what I wish for. The game itself is super fun to play, its highly addictive, but what Sim game isn't? I like how you don't have to go shopping for clothes, you can just simply click on a dresser and click on plan outfit. It's just that easy. There are so many improvements and its just an open fun game. I do wish they would get rid of the censor. Come on they go to the bathroom with their clothes on. When in shower they look like barbie dolls, please tell me who hasn't seen naked barbies? I just think it's annoying. This only proves adults should have games just for adults.... Bottom line if you like The Sims and all EP's. Your going to loooooooooooove The Sims 3!
   
   User: Lisa
   Rating:
   Summary: SIMtastic
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

2. Review Date: 2009-11-21

   Overall, this game is a big disappointment. I regret spending my money and time on this piece of junk. The sims 2 would have been a much better game if EA just add seamless neighborhood feature to it.
   
   User: minniemouse023
   Rating:
   Summary: sims 3 review
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 1
   

3. Review Date: 2009-11-19

   I've been playing The Sims 2 for years, and loved it. When The Sims 3 came out, I wasn't planning to buy it. But I'm so glad that I did! So much has been added to the game. The open neighborhood is great -- my Sims actually go places, instead of staying cooped up in their houses because I don't want to wait for community lots to load. They meet Sims outside of school and work. I love the new wants system, which I think is a vast improvement on the old one -- I like that the wants are tailored to the personality of your Sim, and that his/her personality is more than just "family" or "romance." I love that you don't have to buy clothes, even with the hacked coathook for The Sims 2 that was a pain. Overall it's a great game. I'm really enjoying exploring the town, playing the different premade families and a few of my own. It's interesting to check in on various pre-made families after a couple of generations and see what's happened to them.
   
   Two cons: For some reason the game occasionally doesn't work if I have iTunes open. This only happens sometimes -- and not after I've had an iPod or something plugged in, like the FAQ suggests. But it's easy enough to fix. Closing iTunes and rebooting gets rid of the disc error, and then you can just put it into windowed mode quickly and reopen iTunes. Secondly, I'm using a Mac, and installing custom content is quite a production. They made it pretty much impossible (unless of course you buy from their overpriced store, which I'm not inclined to do). I don't use much CC, since I can recolor things on my own, but it would be nice if that were easier.
   
   User: mea23611
   Rating:
   Summary: Great improvement on the Sims 2
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

4. Review Date: 2009-11-18

   Some of you might be wondering why I am giving this game such a bad review. I have been playing the Sims games since the first games in the franchise beginning with games like Sim Tower, Sim Farm and the first The Sims game came out between 1990 and 2000, and to be clear other than in the sheer quality of the game I am not comparing it to any of them.
   
   Initially I liked this game. The traits helped me create quirky Sims and the open neighborhood was great. I was less than impressed with some of the graphics- lets be realistic while the hood may be great even with a great graphics card mine is a top of the line Nvidia G Series - (one of the best listed in the Specs for the G Series, and I have a 500 GB hard drive, and 4 GB RAM and a 17 inch monitor so that is not the issue) and all my settings on high, the Sims themselves are not so great.
   
   Than EA released their first patch 1.27. At this point I was playing without Mods or CC because there wasn't much out there frankly. The patch was supposed to deal with some issues like the Story Progression that was broken in base game and disappearing inventory items. It didn't, I had to reinstall my game. This pattern has continued throughout patches 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5/1.6.
   
   Recently I purchased World Adventures, removed all my CC and Mods (what few I use cause I don't like cheating) deleted cache files, etc Standard Operating Procedure for installing patches and Expansions in games where there are fan created content and game modifications available. I go to start up the game- patched, newly installed EP, and absolutely no CC/Mods whatsoever, and my lots have disappeared and turned blue, all premade Sims are now homeless, and my Sims cannot interact with NPC"s, premades, or each other. They also cannot go to work, and all car pools and taxis have disappeared.
   
   I tried uninstalling both the base game and World Adventures and putting the last patch to remotely work (1.3) in place for my game and started up the game again with no CC/Mods- which resulted in my not being able to save at all or to use CAS to make Sims, or to access premade Sims on their lots in order to play them. These issues were reported to EA customer service who told me that I needed a better computer ( uhmm well there isn't much better I could get unless I went out a bought a $6000 computer with my own server to boot). Sorry EA the problems with this game are your fail - not mine.
   
   I uninstalled. I will not be reinstalling.
   
   Let me put this simply. This game is poor quality. I never had this type of problems with either Sims 1 or Sims 2, with any of the Expansion or Stuff Packs, or with any of the patches. I will not purchase any further expansions or stuff packs for Sims 3. I also will not be buying any of Electronic Arts other games. This game was a waste of money and I feel foolish on wasting my money on something that was poor quality. I would not recommend this game to anyone.
   
   
   
   User: Dawn S. Wood
   Rating:
   Summary: Sims 3: A Review
   Helpful Votes: 2
   Total Votes: 2
   

5. Review Date: 2009-11-18

   I am a really huge fan of the sims, and the sims 3 is just better in a lot ways than the sims 2, and I dont believe that the people doesnt like it; and my reasons are:
   
   1. The sims 3 is a town, is more big, complex, there a lot more of interactions with the neighbors, co-workers, you can meet anyone, you can go to their houses and have plenty of fun inside (this mode in the sims 2 doesnt exist), you can go to the bookshop, library, groceries store, to see a movie, eat at the Bistro restaurant, to the beach, diferents types of lakes, the graveyard (explore the catacombs is a lot of fun), stonehenge, mine,etc. For this reason I will never play the sims 2 again, is a lot better, thats all. YOU CAN EAT FREE IN THE MAIN STREET, READ BOOKS FOR LEARNING SKILLS FREE IN THE LIBRARY, MAKE A GRILL IN THE MAIN STREET, YOU CAN INVITE ANYONE YOU HAD MEET TO ANY PLACE IN ALL THE TOWN, YOU CAN GO TO THE GYM TO EXCERCISE, SWIM IN THE COMMUNITY POOL, ETC..
   
   2. When you make a sim, I love it; because you can do it the way you like it, there is pleny of tools to make it perfect. The traits (30 or more) you have to choose it carefully, for example i love angler, thumb green, loves outdoors, ambitious, natural cook, etc. That will make you perfect in fishing, gardening and cooking.. And my wife is charismatic that has 70 friendships, and is the governor of the town.. And is more and more; the sims 2 cant never reach it.....
   
   3. The lifetime points is similar to the sims 2, but is better too. You have to make your sims to get all your wishes possible, to reach the highest lifetime wishes.
   
   4. In the sims 3; you can collect gems, rocks, butterflies, space rocks, and it has their proper value, and this is very fun to play.
   
   5. Fishing, gardening, writing are perfect... You write a book and it is a best seller you can see your own novel in the shop book.. Fishing you will see your sim catching a tragic clown fish, swordfish, angelfish; etc.. Gardening you can look for seeds, there is a lot of types of plants, trees, etc to produce..
   
   6. All your family will grow with the members of the town at same time, if you dont want to grow up you have to eat ambrosia, or go to options and dont age, ok.. I accept is more difficult with children because you have to care about them, take care of friendships, the garden, work, etc. I prefer to play with 4 or 5 members at max, because more is very exhausted...
   
   7. There a lot of carreers and each one has its own opportunities, and at the highest position of each job you get a special reward, it is very fun.
   
   8. Ok.. All of this you can play without problems if you have a good video card, memory, proccesor to play; because this game is much, much bigger than the sims 2, so you can imagine, if you have 4 members of your family in different places, the camara switch from one place to another if you want to see whats is going with the other sim, and without a good computer it will take time, and I hate that!! And remember to play in more than 19" LCD monitor, it is better...
   
   9. THE ONLY THING I DONT LIKE IS THAT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING NEW FOR THE GAME (FURNITURE, ETC) YOU HAVE TO BUY IT, AND IT MAKES VERY DISSAPOINTING WHEN YOU KNOW THAT ELECTRONICS ARTS HAS A LOT OF MONEY SELLING ALL THEIR STUFF, SO WHY?????
   
   10. For the new players is better to play sims 2 first to know how to play and later go to the sims 3...
   
   
   User: S. Castillo
   Rating:
   Summary: Excelent work!! The best sims made. But...
   Helpful Votes: 0
   Total Votes: 0
   

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Editorial Reviews

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• New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
• Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
• Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
• New Create a Sim Functionality
• Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
• Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
• New Personality Traits
• Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
• Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
• New Unlimited Customization
• Everyone can customize everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
• Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
• New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
• Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
• Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
• Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
• Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
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• Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
• Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.

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1. New Seamless, Open NeighborhoodExplore the neighborhood freely.
2. New Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine.
3. New Realistic PersonalitiesEvery Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality.
4. New Unlimited CustomizationEveryone can customize everything!
5. The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.