The Sims 3 (PC/Mac DVD)
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 05 June 2009 Publisher: Electronic Arts Rating:   Sales Rank: 44 | | Look for similar items by category: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: It's brilliant (29 August 2010)The Sims is the greatest computer game of all time, and the 3rd is no exception, briliant concept, just amazing, and if you haven't played the 2nd the advancement in the games is outstanding, even if you have its still shockingly good Very Good (28 August 2010)Don't buy this game thinking it's an improvement of The Sims 2. It's not. What it is is a whole new branch of The Sims 2. Its predecessor may have many more Buy Mode Objects, hairstyles and clothes, but this game makes up for what it deprives you of in other ways. There's so much more to explore- the whole game is full of things to investigate. You can write books and publish them, letting other Sims read them in the library. Or you can fish for exotic creatures, plan a perfect garden, run around the neighbourhood, steal from other Sim's houses, pursue a career such as Military or just raise a family at home. It takes the obvious basics from TS2 and evolves in a different direction. But be careful - make sure you make a story to pursue or it can get boring. Just filling your Sim's needs and sending them to work often dulls the whole experience. I found needed to take advantage of the seamless world and the lack of loading screens. Breakout the house like you never could in The Sims 2. Traits come into play well. Discovering other's traits is fun in itself. The Create-A-Style is awesome! You can spend hours just planning the bathroom down to the smallest detail. The camera is very nice as well: You can sitting with your Sim at home, and then whoosh! You'll be zooming over the whole neighbourhood, watching the sea sparkle, the cars roam and the people converse far below you, before settling in the gym where another Sim is working out on the other side of town. Plus the town that comes with the game is absolutely beautiful, I just love 'walking' the camera around, looking at everything... Fails to live up to expectations (23 August 2010)When I made the leap from The Sims to The Sims 2, it was an enormous step forward. I was awe-struck by the amount of new gameplay possibilities, the new features, but also the incredibly impressive look and feel which it had. Along came some genuinely innovative expansion packs, and I was borderline obsessed. As I was very excited for The Sims 3, I have to say that I was genuinely dissapointed by it. At first it seemed to come with some cool new game features - I do like the 'attributes', and the prospect of designing every object in the house to my specifications seemed to open up a great deal of potential. However, as time went on I realised that for Sims 2 fans who were used to playing with all the expansion packs, The Sims 3 was initially very limited. The fact that EA/Maxis have decided to maximise profits by including barely any of the Sims 2 expansion pack capabilities into the Sims 3 made me realise straight away that in order to get to a similar amount of gameplay potential, I would have to wait for the expansion packs, and then pay for each one. It is, of course, expected of a company to maximise profits, but to me it was insulting to the faithful fans of the series to force them to start over with a blank slate. For me, the Sims 3 is simply not different enough from The Sims 2 to make it worth playing, compared to my fully expansion-pack-loaded version of The Sims 2. I've long since given up on The Sims 3. When you really get into it, the ability to customise is not vast, because the fabrics and structures are still limited, so ultimately it's not dramatically different from downloading or creating your own recolours of maxis objects, or indeed new meshes. I also felt that the graphics actually took a step down from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3. I found it less colourful, and the sims all seemed to look the same somehow. I was left completely unimpressed, and if you're a Sims 2 fan who has collected the expansion packs and downloaded some custom content, my advice is that upgrading to The Sims 3 is just not worth the money. The sims 3 review (23 August 2010)The game is very good but the instructions aren't clear and it can be quite slow (no, its not my laptop) But overall, its good. Great fun, but with a couple of niggles (21 August 2010)The sims series are acclaimed for being so addictive, while only having a rather mundane theme. But nonetheless, that should stop you playing and enjoying it. I will warn buyers now, if you use an ATI Graphics chipset upgrade to the newest version before you install, as this game REALLY disagrees with some older drivers and especially the catalyst 9.9 version. Aside from that rather annoying driver disagreement the game has pushed the boundaries once again, but with some disappointment on my part. The fact you can see and explore the whole town is great, and the added bonus of collectables is fun, but there is the fault that you can only use one household at a time, and switching households causes the family to lose a lot of what you've given them (especially the wishes and lifetime happiness points the sims have now) so should you have a newly married kid move out you have to choose: Parents or Child. So you no loonger mangage the whole neighbourhood, only one family, making life a little more difficult. The new customisation feature is by far the best new feature, allowing any item to be customised by adding a different pattern or colour. The items no longer come in set colours, but in set styles, you can edit up to 4 colur channels on each item. Wallpaper and tiles also fall into this as they no longer have set colours, but set patterns and you choose the pattern's colours Overall a great game and worth the money |
