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75 new, starting at $32.99
66 used, starting at $21.99
The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?! New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between! Choose your Sims’ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories. Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They are complex individuals with unique personalities. Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to flowers, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns giving you endless personalization options. Or you can populate your Sims’ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottages?
The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true.
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| Minimum Specifications: | ||
| OS: | Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher |
| Processor: | Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalent | Intel Core Duo Processor |
| RAM: | Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB | 2GB |
| Disc Drive: | 8x DVD ROM or faster | 8x DVD ROM or faster |
| Hard Drive: | Vista & XP - 8 GB or more | At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. |
| Video Card: | 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. | ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. |
| Other: | Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower. | * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. |
I Simply love the Sims!Reviewed by Mary, 2010-03-07
This game is awesome, and the process of purchase was perfect. Everything on time and well received. Excellent.
Simply not in the spirit of its predecessors.Reviewed by E. J. Forrest, 2010-02-28
I really, really wanted to like The Sims 3. I've been a hardcore
Simmer since the release of The Sims, and I had faith that this
game would not be a let down.
However, The Sims 3 lacks a soul. In order for the game to be
playable, you have to download a ton of mods. Without the mods, the
Sims are dull, shapeless, and uniform in appearance.
"Pudding-faced" as the modding community calls it. While the
previous Sims games were very mod-friendly, this new incarnation is
not. Not only do you have to spend hours trying to get your game to
work after each and every update, but EA appears to go out of their
way to make game customization next to impossible.
Since getting the game six months ago, I've had to uninstall and
reinstall at least five times. I never had to do that with the
previous two games.
To make matters worse, if you can finally get you game to work,
it's sort of...boring. It lacks in sim-to-sim interaction, and has
no humanity.
Save your money and purchase a mega-back of The Sims 2 expansion
packs. I wish I hadn't sold mine.
Don't waste your time or money on this oneReviewed by Sunny, 2010-02-24
While Ea promised that this game would be a huge step up, that the
gamer would be able to create new and exciting faces, they were
being disingenuous. The faces all look like rubber. They should've
stuck with the original sims that had realistic faces, like real
people.
The "town" that they created, is rabbit hole town. You cannot go
into any of the buildings with your sim, nor create any of your own
"town" buildings.
They gave less clothing, less furnishings, etc., so that you would
have to go to the ea store and buy with real money ( I will not
stoop to that level) more items for your game, that should've been
incorporated into the game in the first place, as in the original
sims. That was EA's best effort by far. (Maxis)But PROFIT obviously
is far more important to EA than satisfied customers.
Sims 2 was slow loading just to get into the game. Sims 3 is far
worse in loading and slows even more while trying to build and make
sims.
This game is not worth the money by any means, and is inferior to
the original sims and Sims 2. Ea has mislead its customers and it's
a pity that they chose this unrighteous path. Those type of choices
never pay in the end.
AwesomeReviewed by Miranda A. J. Kosloske, 2010-02-20
I really enjoy playing this game. What I found most interesting is that my "Virtual" son acts like my actual son lol. Its so weird. but I love it lol.
Still plagued with the same boring micromanaging as the othersReviewed by Katie, 2010-02-16
I wrote a review for the Sims 2. I can largely copy and paste it
because the progression from Sims 2 to Sim 3 is the same as The
Sims 1 to Sims 2.
This new version has much better graphics, more realistic movement,
and better social options. The Sims 3 has refined the idea of
having goals and a purpose to the game a bit more. However, the
problem persists in that there's little pay off. You are doing all
the same sorts of boring things you've always done. The goals just
makes you choose one boring thing over another.
See, the problem with this game is something they did wrong from
the get-go in the Sims 1 and Sims 2 and still haven't fixed: Making
people eat food and go to the bathroom is boring. Think about life
-- real life, your life. What makes it interesting? What resonates?
Not taking a shower. It really is our emotional connections and
social interactions. But this game addresses it in such an
unfulfilling way.
This game misses out on the driving force behind anything we do in
real life. Cause, followed by effect. The behavior of the Sims
doesn't match the way real people act. For example, you can have a
Sim eat too much food and get fat. Once they are fat, they will
walk a little slower than they did before. They won't get depressed
or need new clothes. They just walk slower. So what? There is
absolutely no reason to make your Sim eat too much food in the
first place. There should be a benefit of it for the Sim that would
make him want to overeat. Maybe it could increase their mood or
maybe it could increase their comfort level or maybe their mood or
comfort would suffer if they didn't overeat.
This game acts like the only thing that affects our behavior are
plainly and simply our physical needs. The game completely misses
the psychology and emotions of humans that make us more interesting
than animals. We might as well be controlling a pack of bears and
having them pick berries and mate and eat and poo. Because that's
this game is: mundane micromanaging.
The first time around playing, exploring all the different social
options and possibilities is interesting, and it can be fun to take
the mechanical boring action on the screen and create your own
storyline to it. But the truth is, it does get old quickly. And the
expansion packs give you some other stuff to do, but they get old
just as quickly, if not quicker.
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