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9/10
The best Sims game yet!
tiffany_babe24 August 2015
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I am a massive Sims fan, I have every one for the PS2 and I also have Sims 3 and Sims 3 Pets for the Xbox 360. Sims 3 is very different to the rest, for the first time you can go anywhere in the town. Unlike the PS2 versions you can visit friends, go to school, go to work, the theatre, the park, the local swimming pool; you name it. There's so many new features that makes it exciting. You can have an upstairs to your house by adding stairs, whereas on the PS2 ones they were more like bungalows. You can actually have children and bring them up just like you would in real life, your Sims actually die which is realistic, it even comes up with the relationships between Sims. For example, it would say 'daughter', 'son', 'uncle' and it has different interactions for family and friends. The more you get to know someone the more options you have when socialising with them. I know what you're all thinking, yes you can 'do it' on Sims 3 but it isn't in great detail like some of you are hoping it would be. This short music comes on and there's movement under the covers and love hearts above the bed but that's it so don't get excited on that bit. There's still the storyline bit where you choose what happens in your Sims lives. Whether they cheat or not, if they get married or not, if they have kids or not, what type of house they have, what job they have, who they live with, who they're friends with. BUT-on this Sims you can actually choose what they're like as a person. With a new feature called 'traits' where you can make everyone have a different personality. They have really thought this one through! I can't tell the difference between a humans life in real life and a Sims life on Sims! Apart from they speak a language that we don't understand of course! It's a definite purchase for all you Sims fans out there, get buying and playing there's so much to do! There's even challenges, it gets more and more interesting the more you play. Enjoy!
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7/10
The Sim Series
Aleta_Nook26 March 2017
I've always had a soft spot for simulator games since I was a child. I would player theme park games such as Roller-coaster tycoon, Sims Theme Park, Virtual Villagers etc.. also because of my love for theme parks. So, Sims games were quite up my alley. You're a god controlling your sims, building houses, and buying things so it's not much different from simulator games such as Roller-coaster Tycoon, Virtual Villagers, Virtual Families etc..

The Sims has always been a nice game for everybody to play. You can create characters with detailed looks and create whatever personality you want to create with them, like emotional, hot-headed, neat etc. and it can influence the life that they have. Though, the weird thing I found out about the games I mostly played, Sims 2 and Sims 3 was the children never cry but the other age group of people can. But it depends on if you make your children emotional, nice, sensitive beings or perhaps if their mood was way too low or if someone they love die, I don't know, but I always keep my Sims happy. Though, the children not crying isn't a problem to me, the games are still enjoyable because it offers something for everybody.

Characters such as the Repo-man, Social Bunnies, and Social Workers are the only annoying characters. Social bunnies can be summoned when sims get too lonely, which is more of an imaginary friend and not something realistic. The Social Workers and Repo-man take things away from you so it makes them seem mean-spirited.

The Sims can even get annoying with their constant whining when they need something, when the babies cry and throw tantrums or if something is in the way of them.

The games offers pretty good replay value if you know what you're doing. I haven't played Sims 1 in a long time, but I didn't like it too much when I was 12, but I'm thinking about trying it again since I liked the other Sims games. The games are realistic, addictive, and fun to play. If you're tired of playing conventional games and want something unique and realistic, but still likable and sympathetic, play the Sims games.
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8/10
Relatable ;p
alyxnichols26 August 2017
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Every since I was a wii-lil-child I have loved the sims series, so you can imagine how excited I was when i bought ~The Sims 3~. I sat that, practically peeing myself with excitement, as I downloaded the sims 3 + the pets expansion pack + the outdoor living "stuff" pack. (Despite the incredibly long time it took to load while I peed myself) I fell in love with the sims 3 the same way I had with the first sims game my mother had downloaded on the home computer within my first 5 minutes of playing.

The game is just like life. You play as a person, you get a job as a person, you buy your first house as a person, you get married as a person, you have a child that looks kind of f***ed up but you still do it as a person(even if the baby doesn't do it as a person). Just like real life the people, or sims, have emotions. The emotions in the game are made by your sims moodlets, moodlets are gained from actions and places. The moodlets are caused by things like hunger, hygiene, a well decorated room or even the death of a relative or friend, and like real life you do all of these as a person. Like real life, in this game you have no real objectives but "wishes" that your sims make, these an also affect moodlets. After the novelty of living a life (more successful than your own(lets face it you're 25 next month and your still playing sims)) of an average sim/person wears off and you notice the existentialism of the game, you begin to experiment. These experiments start off innocent, you marry a second person just to observe the moodlet/emotion of your fellow sim, of your first husband. By your fifth husband and your relationship of now polyandry you've become bored. You recreate the first glitch you encountered, and each of your five husbands now have 3 children to their name, not only children but those weird f***ed up children that don't play the game as people, Not Like You Do. You breed these children like a person performing a weird f***ed up experiment, like a person. Eventually your first sim and her husbands have all grown old and out of kindness for the human race and mentally ill, they stop breeding. You are shocked and mad at the betrayal of your sims and their reproductive habits so you lock them in a room with no light or bed or shower or food or friend. You decide to observe how long each of these sims take to die and what the cause is. when you find that they all die of starvation first you take note. The children you've had have now grown up and they're old enough to participate (no matter how f***ed up they are). You set aside two above ground for breeding and the rest are locked underground with the same conditions as the first but they all get one meal this time. You take note of what they die from and you make sure that next time they don't die from this. You continue this return in order to find the most brutal and difficult to reach death. By your 300th participant you find it. You find the worst death. YOU find that your sims has died from loneliness. YOU found this as a person. This is when you realize that sims 3 has gone to far.

The sims 3 is a perfect realization of what people do without consequence. You cannot blame this on Jasmine the wife of five and mother of fifteen, shes dead. YOU killed all of these people out of what? Curiosity? Rebellion? To prove a point? NO, it's because you could. The sims 3 lets see what is deeper inside the human brain, what is deeper inside the human soul. With this information I can only imagine the people paying EA for statistics. Or maybe EA keeps it for themselves for their new line of AI based on the brain of my 12 year old curious, rebellious, spiteful self. The sims is using game data they collected to learn about the human brain and it's too late.

I hope that someone smarter than me is able to find this information and do something with it because I'm not sure exactly what reaction would be correct. I am going to have to take a break from my IMDb review career so that I can find myself, goodbye everyone and good luck.

EDIT: although I'm not sure it was the right choice I have changed my name and have come to a hopeful final count of five husbands (real life people, not sims) and I thought you might all want to know that my f***ed up children and I have decided to give the game a second chance so I'm currently downloading my 13th piece of DLC. Anyway goodbye and good luck losers ;p.
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10/10
A Brilliant Evolution of The Sims Series
IokFromTheCrypt18 June 2009
The Sims games are based on a simple concept: create virtual people then influence their lives. As they develop, so they express new needs, start relationships, develop skills and provide a unique experience, part dollhouse, part soap opera.

Now The Sims 3 takes all that and improves on it in every single way in a game that's the best of the series so far.

Previously Sims were restricted to living within the boundaries of a single lot and could only visit another location by taking a taxi ride (interrupted by a loading screen) at which point they were locked in another lot until they decided to return home. Not so now - your Sim is free to explore the entire city without restrictions. And what's more, life goes on throughout the city, with other households growing, evolving and changing. It's an amazingly deep, immersive world your Sims now inhabit.

Core gameplay remains relatively similar, but EA has streamlined a lot of the problems in the earlier games. Sims eat less, need fewer bathroom breaks, pathing is improved and the game focuses less on micromanagement and more on play.

One new feature is the "Moodlet." Your Sims' experiences may give them negative or positive "power-ups" that effect their mood. Eat a good meal or walk into a well-decorated room and your Sim gains positive moodlets. But in a room filled with dirty plates their mood sinks. It's a superb,quick way to gain an insight into your Sim's wellbeing.

Although it still revolves around watching the clock speed past, work has been overhauled, with new careers and paths and even a new "work attitude" option - push yourself for the raise or chill-out with co-workers being just two options open to your working Sims. Although still not perfect it's a more engaging experience than that found in The Sims 2.

Skills have been refined. Writer Sims can pen their own novels, choosing a variety of genres to work in (and even giving it a title). When your book is finished, you'll receive royalties and a complementary copy in the mail, which you can then place in your home. You can plant seeds and grow your vegetables, then use them in your recipes. The depth within the skill set is superb and rewards gamers willing to put the effort into exploring the new system.

Create A Style is a new tool that allows players to modify the colour/pattern of virtually any item in the game, from furniture to clothing and building surfaces. The power of this tool is incredible and offers a vast range of style options for the custom-content creators.

Visually the game is impressive. The Sims themselves - although stylised - are well-animated, with a "solid" feel to them and the environments really shine: trees shake in the wind, waves crash upon the beach, water droplets stick to your Sim's skin.

But perhaps what's most impressive is the sheer depth and immersive nature of The Sims 3. EA have cracked that "just one last thing" gameplay that keeps you hooked for hours on end.

Finally, it's impossible to discuss The Sims 3 without touching upon the negative reception the game has - unfairly - been given by a minority of very vocal players. There are complaints of crash-bugs, that EA didn't include all the content of The Sims 2's expansions and that EA are attempting to rob players with an unfinished/incomplete game.

All I can say is that having played on a Pentium 4 2.8/Nvidia 7600GT and a dual core 2.6/Nvidia 8800GT, the game never crashed, showed no graphical glitches and Time Advance works just fine (EDIT: a patch from EA has since improved Time Advance further, so now there's no excuse for not playing it!)

What I have experienced is people complaining about the "broken" state of The Sims 3 playing on machines that don't meet the minimum requirements. Perhaps they should also complain that their CD Walkman won't play Blu-Ray movies.

As for the "missing" content: even EA would struggle to release 18 DVD's worth of updates on time for under £300. Expansion packs - as they did for the previous games - will be appearing to introduce new content to The Sims 3, so why this is a problem for these people is baffling.

For those willing to accept this new evolution I'd strongly urge giving The Sims 3 a whirl, as it's without a doubt the best game in the series so far. For those unwilling to accept change, then I'm sure EA will continue to support The Sims 2 for another few years yet. However, during that time you'll be missing-out on some amazing experiences.
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10/10
Wrong
dansissocool10 August 2012
Which idiot wrote the storyline, you have always been able to go out the house on The Sims 1 and 2, its only on consoles you couldn't leave the house?

its a great game there are many expansion packs like World adventures Ambitions Showtime Late night Pets Generations And soon to come Supernatural.

This game is addictive as its a whole new lifestyle,but is a great game. Sims can get jobs and do basically anything a human can do Even Woohoo (Make love).

Its an amazing video game
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6/10
Nothings improved but the graphics
sam_aj_0124 July 2009
The Sims 3 was one of the most anticipated games ever, I cant say that it has paid off all that well.

For the first 10 days I was totally glued to it, I think my computer saw more of me than anyone else. After that I practically mastered the game by building a dream home, achieving life-long wishes, getting married and having children (certainly got me hooked). Despite all of that its difficult to do things as your Sim needs food, comfort, rest and entertainment constantly...

To be honest, I consider myself lucky for being able to play this game, I know that out of 5 of my friends who bought this, only 2 can play it because it uses up sooooo much space on your computer so beware!!!

Its definitely worth it but the screen-shots and trailers make it look like you can do absolutely everything (and although it seems like you can such as getting a job, you don't actually see anything apart from the bar at the top of your screen telling you what your Sim is doing)
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6/10
Some real good features, but doesn't score on "addictiveness" factor
sashank_kini-11 October 2009
Its sad that after waiting for so much time, registering at Sims 3.com, eagerly longing for a copy of the game, frequently visiting the malls, spending about Rs.399( I got a concession of about Rs.600 due to my previous purchases) for the game with the actual retail price of Rs.999, installing it as soon as I entered my home and playing with it for a couple of hours, I got a bit bored with it.

Sims 2 changed the PC game play to a whole new level. It was so addictive that one was glued to his or her seat. Unfortunately, the mighty sequel doesn't do that and somewhat falls flat. I have to admit that some of the changes in the sequel are welcoming but the whole game itself does not manage to carry the weight of the previous titles and turns out to be a somewhat disappointing.

The best thing about Sims 3 is the character customization which has innumerable options. To assign various traits to Sims is fun and so is the clothing option. But why did they not have the height customization? It would be so much fun to marry a dwarf man to a huge lady.

The whole idea of seamless neighborhood is overwhelming. For the first time, I loved to keep my Sims away from their homes. The graphics have improved and the Sims look more realistic. The wishes is a good addition to the Sims game. The ghost Sims and the prospect of having Ghost babies too is fine.

But why is the game not addictive? Firstly, there are only about 12 lifetime wishes. Therefore, many of my Sims have the same lifetime wish which is bugging. Then, the speed doesn't seem to increase a lot when I click on 'forward'. I have to see my Sims sleep for a minute or so which is okay but sometimes irksome.

The whole new interaction system does get a bit jaded after a while. Doing the same actions over and over again to make your Sims love each other or make babies is boring. And its is not possible to see what the Sims do at work or even at restaurants. Why were the creators so lazy in this aspect?

Overall, a not so addictive game for me. I would have rated it 8 before but since I am not playing it now and am in no mood to play it, I give it a 6.
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6/10
One fun, weird and unique game
angell-an-wright4 July 2014
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The Sim's 3 is a game where you can edit and change the life around you. It is a really fun game even though if you are just watching it can seem quite boring. It is one of those games which you just really need to play it and see what i mean.

The game doesn't really have a storyline as you edit it and you can't actually fail the game. Saying that i don't think you can actually complete it either... It is filled with plenty of randomness, stupidity and comedy. Some bits do make you laugh a lot. If you hate repetitive games then you're safe with this game as it doesn't repeat itself. For example you can just be making a simple autumn salad in it and then in the next moment you could have burnt your house down!

In my opinion there are better games out there but really it's a good game for you when you're tired of other games or just need something to take your mind off life. It's a sweet game with some nice elements to it. Some parts will make you smile, laugh, cry and so much more.

They say that it's a PG 13 but i really don't see why. I mean there isn't anything actually in it. The "violence" isn't actually violence i mean... all i can think of is when Sim's fight and they just turn into a big ball of steam/dirt/cloud thing. Not really bad. You could say it isn't suitable for the fact you can have children in it but even that isn't that bad. I'd say this is suitable for like 7+ year olds as it really isn't that bad

Overall i give this a 6/10 because it's quirky game which is good fun to play but is highly addictive and can make you rage at the lags. It's def worth the play but it isn't one of the best games out there lets be honest. Also it's much better on the PC then on say the ps3 or XBOX... though they are good too. In my opinion the Sim's 2 pets was FAR much better :)
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