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June 2009
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The editors liked
Interface improvements. Finer controls for placing objects within a house. More character depth now available. Sims now have life goals to work toward
Not just dead-end jobs.
Infinitely replayable
Lots of downloadable content
Waaaaay too many features to detail.
Storymode adds real life
Seamless travel
Little details built with a lot of care
Freetoexplore town leads to a sense of community
Robust
Intuitive creation tools
Charming visuals and audio
Good balance of sandbox play and specific goals
Loads of content to keep you busy for months.
Simulates an entire town of Sims
Great homebuilding tools
Complex personalities.
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The editors didn't like
Items from the previous expansion packs not included in this version. You have to pay for cool downloadable items once your initial free online points run out.
Downloadable content costs real Earth dollars
Managing big families is pretty tough.
Similar activities
No real improvements in the job system
Most additional official content costs real money
Some pathfinding issues.
Watching Sims sleep every night
Unrewarding lifetime rewards
Frustrating pathfinding.
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The Sims 3 departs quite a bit from The Sims and The Sims 2. You get one neighborhood. In that neighborhood
You pick one family to play as. Ideally
You should be able to pick more
But a glitch/bug is preventing the Story Mode toggle from...
A stunning life simulator with a few gaping omissions. It will likely reach boiling point over the next year or so. 8.0/10Print this pageUser reviews (0)Share this pageNoticed something wrong? Report error/mistake....
The Sims used to be the game for people who didn't like games. With this threequel, it becomes the game that people who like games like as well. Huge, deep and enthralling, it's a game that most of us won't want to miss....
Abstract: Its shiny, sexy, and perplexingly emerald-green, but more than anything, The Sims 3 - Electronic Arts groomed and gussied-up digital dollhouse - is an intrepid and wonderful game. Wonderful, because The Sims 3 is finally the game the original aspi...
The Sims franchise has evolved. EA and Maxis has taken everything that is great from its previous games and enhanced and fine-tuned almost every aspect, as well as adding some new features that give the gameplay more focus and purpose than ever before...
Abstract: Verdict: A detailed social simulation with many layers. Theres an entire town, and more role-playing elements than before. The third instalment in this successful series expands on the previous games by simulating an entire town. Your virtual chara...
Abstract: Action games offer twitchy thrills, and strategy games test your ability to set up and execute combat schemes, but simulation games replicate activities-or life itself-in broad or precise strokes. The scenarios that fall under the simulation umbrella are...
Abstract: T here are very few games that I've played that reeled me in. And there are even fewer games that made me miss both my dinner and my favourite TV show. Yes, The Sims 3 made me miss both of those things on my first day of playing it. And even after missing...
Lintégration de nombreux traits de caractères, de souhaits « au quotidien » et dobjectifs à long terme renouvelle complètement lintérêt dune simulation de vie qui finissait par tourner un peu en rond. On regrette qu...
