The Sims 3
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| Type: | Base Game |
| Release date: | February 20th 2009 |
| Price: | $69.95 |
| Genre: | Simulation, more realistic than predicessors |
| Creature(s): | Ghosts |
| Rating: | RP |
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| Website: | TheSims3.EA.com See also: The Sims 3 Official Website |
The Sims 3 is the game succeeding The Sims 2 and The Sims.
The Sims 3 was first announced by EA in November 2006. Production of the game started after the release of The Sims 2. EA's chief financial officer, Warren Jenson, said that The Sims 3 is "most likely to be launched in the 2009 fiscal year", which actually starts sometime in 2008. This has recently been proved to be the real 2009 by The Sims 3 Official Website.
Feng Zhu Design and Gamma Ray Studios are two external companies that have been confirmed in the making of the design outfits. Information to this effect was posted but then later removed from their websites, as this information was not meant to go public.
Richard Evans, a developer for the game, stated that he is going to try to make The Sims 3 characters more individual, unique and distinct than in previous installments of the game. He also talked about the game's AI and how it will be improved in the near future.
[edit] Minimum Requirements
[edit] Windows XP
[edit] PC
- Processor: Pentium IV 2.0 GHz / Athlon XP 2000+
- Memory: 1 GB
- Graphics: GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 125 Mb.
[edit] Laptop
- Processor: Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+
- Memory: 1,5 GB
- Graphics: GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 125 Mb.
[edit] Windows Vista
[edit] PC
- Processor: Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+
- Memory: 1,5 GB
- Graphics: GeForce FX 5900 / Radeon 9500 125 Mb.
[edit] Laptop
- Processor: Pentium IV 2.4 GHz / Athlon XP 2400+
- Memory: 2 GB
- Graphics: GeForce Go 6200 / Radeon mobile 9600 125 Mb.
[edit] What to expect
[edit] The Neighborhood & CAH:
- You will be able to zoom out to see the whole neighbourhood or zoom in on just one sim
- Neighborhoods without restrictions
Curved floor tiles(no proof as of yet) (in a screenshot there are curved rugs that may seem like floor tiles but are just rugs like in The Sims and The Sims 2)- 100% customization of all objects, floors, etc.
- Your homes will go through a construction process
- Wall and base cabinets (hanging and floor)
- Real sunsets
- Cars
- 45° rotation of objects (without cheats)
- Press "Alt" to rotate objects 360°
- Smart wall dragging
[edit] CAS (Create-A-Sim):
- Ability to choose separate shoes
- Variables
- Sims' weights
- Sims' mucsles (different than weight)
[edit] The Sim Life:
- Vehicles without any EPs
- The ability to visit and interact with nearby neighbors
- No lot restrictions (ability to move freely throughout the whole neighborhood)
- Sims can do long-term planning and will be more publicly aware and responsive
- Real time... all families will age together
[edit] Graphics:
- Improved lighting and shadow effects
- Transparency
- Blurry transparency
- Refracting and reflecting (like water and frosted glass)
- Realistic sunsets
[edit] (p)reviews
[edit] EA Store
- NEW! SEAMLESS, LIVING NEIGHBORHOOD
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhood — and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, discuss fine art at the gallery, 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
- Create any Sim you can imagine with new 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 full-figured to muscular.
- NEW! PERSONALITY TRAITS
- Select up to five individual personality traits such as brave, artistic, kleptomaniac, clumsy, paranoid, and romantic, to create an endless number of truly diverse Sims.
- 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, wall-paper to window shades.
- NEW! GAMEPLAY THAT'S REWARDING AND QUICK
- Enjoy the challenge of fulfilling your Sims short- and long-term goals 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. Your Sims can skyrocket from Latrine Cleaner to Astronaut, from Rabid Fan to Sports Legend, or even from Roadie to Rock Star!
- NEW! COMMUNITY TO SHARE & CONNECT
- Download free & exclusive new content to enhance your game including new Sims, houses, furniture and more.
- Make your own movies & show them to the world.
- Share your own Sims, houses & more with anyone.
[edit] thesims3.ea.com
[edit] General
What if you had to live your whole life in one location … and then one day, suddenly, you could step outside and go anywhere in the whole neighborhood?
The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighborhood of endless possibility!
New Seamless, Living Neighborhood—Your Sims explore the living neighborhood freely.
New Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine.
New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality.
New Unlimited Customization—Everyone can customize everything.
[edit] About
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.
New Seamless, Open Neighborhood—Explore the neighborhood freely.
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 Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine.
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.
New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality.
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.
New Unlimited Customization—Everyone can customize everything!
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 cottage?
[edit] Create-A-Sim
Create Completely Unique Sims
Create Sims who look like you or anyone you know. The all-new Create A Sim is easy to use and more powerful than ever, letting you completely personalize your Sim’s appearance and personality.
Fine-tune every feature on your Sims face, customize their hair style, select the exact shade of their skin tone, and determine much more to make realistic Sims. Outfit your Sims with infinite fashion, make-up, and accessory styles. It’s never been easier to make Sims that are thin, full-figured, muscular, and everything in between!
Designate your Sims’ personality based on an innovative trait system. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to make a variety of interesting characters, who live in the neighborhood. Will you create an idealistic, creative dreamer who relishes taking risks thanks to his daredevil streak? Will you make an insensitive, drop-dead gorgeous socialite who neglects her romantic side and whose deepest secret is that she is actually a certified genius? It’s entirely up to you.
| Adversarial | Competitive |
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| Artistic | High skill in creating art |
| Athletic | A very active person |
| Brave | Shows a lot of courage |
| Charismatic | High charm/appeal to others |
| Childish | Behaving immature |
| Clumsy | Lacking dexterity or grace |
| Commitment Issues | Avoidance of long-term partnership and/or marriage |
| Conversationalist | Talks a lot and is good in conversations |
| Cursed | Has some sort of divine harm |
| Daredevil | A reckless person |
| Dreamer | Lives in a world of imagination |
| Easily Bored | Easily uninterested in things |
| Evil | Has a bad character and does bad things |
| Excitable | Easy to get into action or exitement or reacting to stimuli |
| Family Orientated | Emotionally directed to family |
| Flirty | Showing interest or liking in other person |
| Friendly | Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with |
| Frugal | Economical, avoiding to waste anything |
| Genius | Possesses extraordinary intelligence or skill |
| Gloomy | Lacking in promise or hopefulness |
| Good | Favorable character or tendency |
| Good Sense of Humor | Is very comical or amusing |
| Green Thumb | A natural skill for gardening |
| Grumpy | Unhappy and/or irritable |
| Handy | Clever in using their hands in a variety of useful ways |
| Hot-Headed | Easily angered |
| Hydrophobic | Fear of water |
| Idealistic | Prefers ideals before practical considerations |
| Inappropriate | Behaviour not suitable for the situation |
| Insensitive | Lacking feeling or tact |
| Kleptomaniac | One who steals compulsively |
| Light Sleeper | Is easily wakened |
| Loner | Avoiding the company of others |
| Lucky | Is favored by luck |
| Mooch | To wander around aimlessly |
| Natural Cook | Good cook or cooking with organic ingredients |
| Neat | A habit of being clean and orderly |
| Neurotic | |
| Nosy | Prying or curious in other's affairs |
| Outdoors person | Likes to spends much time outdoors |
| Over-Emotional | Intense emotion or full of passion |
| Paranoid | Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others |
| Partier | To attend or give parties |
| Perfectionist | Having extremely high standards |
| Pizza Lover | Likes pizza a lot |
| Playful | Likes playing, prone to play frequently |
| Romantic | Emotional appeal of heroic, adventurous, mysterious, or idealized |
| Rude | Offensive in manner or action |
| Schmoozer | Chatting friendly and persuasive to gain favors |
| Shy | A timid reserve and disinclined to familiar approach |
| Slob | A lazy and sloppy person |
| Stubborn | |
| Technophobe | Afraid of Technology |
| Unflirty | Like shyness |
| Unforgiving | Unwilling or unable to forgive |
| Unlucky | Unfortunate, marked by misfortune |
| Vegetarian | Does not eat animal flesh or no animal products at all |
| Whiny | Tends to whine or complain |
| Workaholic | A compulsive worker |
| Worrywart | A person who is inclined to worry excessively |
[edit] Create-A-Home
Create A Home
Design and build homes with complete freedom to customize everything and make your very own neighborhoods. Infinite possibilities to design the interior furnishings of your Sims. Select any color or pattern you can imagine to furniture. Match all your furnishings with the same pattern & color, or mix patterns & colors of the furnishings to create your very own look. The possibilities are endless for creating your Sims home of their dreams.
[edit] ::Snooty Sims::
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[edit] Neighborhood:
- Seamless Nhood: Your Sim can visit neighbors, parks and shops without a loading screen.
- All the neighboring Sims will live their life and age simultaniously as your Sim (They'll get married, get jobs,etc).
- The game will ship with 1 Neighborhood.
- Several weeks after the launch, there will be a tool available to create your own Nhoods.
- That Nhood will consist of about 90 different lots.
- When the game is out, you can download towns, made by other people.
- All buildings in the Nhood can be interacted with, so no prop buildings.
- There are 2 kinds of buildings; Buildings that you can build yourself and look into, and buildings where your sim disapears into and re-appears after some time.
- These buildings are ploppable; it means that you can just select them from a menu and put it in the Nhood all made and ready.
- Confirmed community places are: Pool, Gym, Park, Bistro, Art gallery, Library, Clothing store, City Hall and Bookstore.
- You can zoom out to see the whole Nhood at once or zoom in to a single Sim.
- You can move a house to a bigger lot.
- The Neighborhood stories and inhabitants will be a prequel to the Sims 1 Neighborhood
[edit] Sims:
- There are 6 needs in total: Hunger, Social, Bladder, Hygiene, Energy and Fun.
- Sims have Traits. Choose 5 from around 80 types like Dreamer, Evil, lucky, etc. These Traits will affect how a Sim behaves towards others and affects their moods, like the mood of an Outdoorsperson will raise when he/she is outside. An evil Sim may slap another Sim.
- Toddler: 2 traits, Child: 3 traits, Teens: 4 traits, Young Adult and older: 5 traits.
- They will look after themselves better.
- Fulfilling wishes of a Sim (like the wish to get a big screen tv, getting married,etc), gives you Lifetime Happiness points to buy Lifetime Rewards for your Sims. An example is Steel bladder (never pee again) and Haggler (All your shopping is cheaper).
- There are about 30 different Rewards.
- Moodlets instead of a moodbar. If something happens like a marriage, the Sim gets a moodlet. These moodlets will affect your Sims' mood and give abilities like learning faster. An example: Getting fired will get you a long lasting, big impact moodlet, while going to a small party will get them a short, non-dramatic moodlet.
- Traits could be passed down, and actions a Sim does during her pregnancy will affect the traits of her offspring.
- Hair will not grow but you can 'paint' certain parts of the hair.
- Sims have certain skills like cooking or fishing.
- You can fulfil needs by simply clicking on an icon.
- Instead of fixed interaction (like Talk or Joke), the options are filtered on your current Mood and Traits.
- Certain traits have unique interactions.
- There is no gradual aging, but there are age groups as in Sims 2.
- There will be 7 age groups: Baby, Toddler, Child, Teenager, Young adult, Adult, Elder.
- Athletic skills can help Sims stay fitter and even live longer.
- You can not drive a car in first person; You can only order a sim to go somewhere in its car and then follow it around town.
- Paintings that a Sim makes, will be unique to each Sim. It's based on its personality and mood.
- You may control how much time a Sim spends on certain tasks like sleeping, fishing etc.
[edit] Careers/Jobs:
- You can follow your Sim in its car to work. You won't see your Sim working though; He/She will disappear in the building.
- Every career has its own building in the Nhood.
- Advancing in career is changed as it depends on skills, personality, relationship with colleagues/boss and even certain goals that has to be fulfilled. For example taking work home.
- Confirmed careers are Athletic, Journalism, Medical, Music, Military, Business, Law Enforcement, Criminal, Politics, Entertainment, Cooking, Education and Science.
- Sims can take part-time jobs.
- Besided the newspaper, you can also apply for a job at the specific careerbuilding.
- You can decide how hard they work; Like choose a less stressful day but gain less skill.
[edit] CAS:
- Body can be shaped as faces were in Sims 2.
- There are sliders for weight and fitness.
- Sims you created fat, can become thin by exersizing, thin created people get fat by eating a lot.
- You can choose specific Asian and African models.
- You can choose a Sims' favorite color, music type and food.
- Shoes are seperate and can also choose barefoot.
- Shirts and jackets are seperate and can hang over the pants
- Clothes are customizable from CAS; Change the color of a certain piece of clothes or use your own patterns.
- You cannot change the height of a sim.
- You can choose from 3 different voices for each gender. Can also change the pitch height.
[edit] Buy/Build Mode
- You can use your own patterns/colours and then apply it to anything through a drag-and-drop interface.
- Each item has between one and four customizable regions that can be modified
- The game will have modding tools built into it.
- You can move objects 360 degrees.
- You can build 5 stories high.
- You can buy an empty bookcase and then buy and place books in it.
- Table and chairs link and can move as 1 object (same with beds and end tables).
- You can make a certain stair wider (up to 4 tiles wide) with a slider.
- You can position stuff on counters as long as the objects aren't overlapping.
- Gridsize is 4 times smaller. Can also choose no grid at all.
- You can move whole walls and everything on it (wallpaper/paintings/etc) will move with it.
[edit] Technical:
- The game has been made so that will also run smoothly on older PC's.
- There's no online multiplayer
- The game requires a 1-time online activation
- You can choose 3 dificulty levels on each household.
- You can save your game in different slots
- The game will be released on 20 February, 2009.
- A Mac version will be made AFTER the game is released on PC.
- System requirements will be similar as Spore
- There will be no weather in the game.
- Wind will move the trees.
- You can pick up items (garbage, books,etc) yourself with a Hand cursor.
- Shadows move across the ground as the sun goes up/down.
[edit] Things that will not change:
- Sims still talk in Simlish
- Sims can still pee their pants, die of hunger, etc.
- There are still thought bubbles that tell which needs must be fulfilled like Hunger. These bubbles show in the control panel though and not hover over the Sims' head.
- Mrs. Crumplebottom will be in the game
- Sims still have an inventory system to put things in like groceries.
- There will be expansions.
- You can still choose a zodiac sign for your sims.
- There are still same-sex couples and they can still adopt children.
- You can still design, build, and furnish a home.
- Sims still spin around to change clothes.
- Sims can still get jobs from newspapers.
- The amount of Sims per lot is still 8.
- Most current Sims 2 cheats will be in Sims 3 as well.
[edit] Fanevent
Just returned from the Sims3 fanevent. Ben Bell showed a little demo of the game. Mostly about the new features like customization, the new CAS and the neighborhood. Though time was limited, I did get to ask quite a few of your questions. Some will be disapointed with the answers while some will be very happy. The pics I took are a bit dark-ish, but that's because it was night-time in the demo and it was not presented on a tv-screen. I'll try to fix them up a bit though. I hope to get the preview ready in a few hours. A few newsbits:
- I discovered 4 new traits: Technophobe, Unflirty, Stubborn, Neurotic.
- There will be tools to make all kinds of custom content but NOT a tool to create objects.
- You can move houses around but not change the roads.
- No weather and apartments.
More in the upcoming preview... preview by ::SnootySims::
[edit] Create a Style by Jennifer Lane
Note: These are words that select people might want to look at or possibly even read.
Create a Style October 07, 2008 00:54 AM
Create a Style
Jennifer Lane – Associate Producer
My name is Jenn, and I’m a producer on The Sims 3. It’s always fun to talk about the game with players and today I’m going to tell you all about one of my favorite new features in The Sims 3—Create a Style!
Have you ever gone shopping and found a great outfit, perfect in every way except the pattern looks like a paint bucket exploded in the textile factory? Ever lost track of time after sitting in super comfy reading chair because you’ve been hypnotized by the garish pattern?
No worries! In The Sims 3 you’ll be able to put your personal touch on practically everything that your Sims own.
The Sims 3 will have a slew of clothing and objects available in the Create a Sim, Build Mode, and Buy Mode catalogs. There are plenty of ready-made design options, so you can quickly dress your Sim or furnish your house with designer flare and go play. But if you want to interject your own personal style into the game, Create a Style allows you to customize clothing, furnishings, walls, and nearly anything else your Sims can interact with.
In Create a Style you’ll have dozens of patterns to choose from including different fabrics, masonry, paint, metals, and a lot more. You can use the patterns in any way you want. If you really, really want to make a Sim wearing metal shoes and wooden pants, go for it!
Not only can you switch patterns around, you can apply them to select areas of an object to create a unique look. You can create a polka dot door with animal print door knobs or a tile lined sink with plaid water fixtures. Each item has between one and four customizable regions that can be modified. Take a polo shirt and add a plaid pattern to the collar, stripes to the sleeves and leopard print to the body for that … unique … design flourish. Okay, maybe there are more fashionable ways to design, but that’s for you to decide.
What if you love that bold geometric pattern, but hate the color scheme? Create a Style lets you pick the colors within patterns too. It even has warm and cool color palates to help you match hues for a color-coordinated theme.
When you’re finished creating, you can save your design for later use. And if you’re really into coordinated schemes, it’s easy to apply the same pattern to other objects that your Sims own for that extreme matchy-matchy look. Your Sims could have black and white striped socks to match their black and white striped car or a plaid shirt that matches their countertops. Your Sim’s house could be decked out in argyle everything! –or not…
With so many options, you can decorate your house with a different motif everyday. Will you choose classic, rustic, and chic themes or mix and match to your hearts desire? Will you make your Sims fashion victims or mavericks of style? It’s up to you to create their style.
I can hardly wait to see your results!
Jenn
[edit] JoAnna Lio, Associate Producer TS3, on Neighborhoods
Town Blog October 09, 2008 19:00 PM
Howdy! My name is JoAnna. One of the parts of The Sims 3 game that I produce is the town that you'll experience. We're having a blast creating this place for you! The town sits in a cozy cove that has everything from a beach and rocky coastline to mountains and farm land. The neighborhoods that extend through these areas all have their own style and feel. The place where your Sims live actually makes a difference. If you pick one of the smaller houses behind the town hall, they’ll have quick access to the activity of the town center, but their surroundings won’t be as nice as the coastal lots nestled among the pine trees. If you decide you want your Sims to live up on Summer Hill, they’ll have scenic vistas and colorful, wealthy neighbors for sure, but they’ll have to earn enough money to build there and they’ll spend more time in the car commuting to work.
Each occupied house is also tailored for the Sims who live in it. For example, Mrs. Crumplebottom's home is stoic with its modern, monochromatic furniture. The Bunch house reflects practicality over style, accommodating the family’s four kids of all ages. And if you’re looking for a special home to go on a particular plot of land that boasts your favorite view, you can find an array of different houses in the in-game "library". Browse through the collection and then plop the house you want right into the town. You'll also be able to modify any location, from decorating the yard with flamingos to bulldozing and rebuilding from the ground up, to replacing the family, or refurnishing it with retro ‘70s-themed furniture. One of my favorite houses is an ultra-tacky “starter home” that features a corrugated metal roof, mismatched wallpaper, a camo-covered living room set, zebra-print bedspreads, and even chain-link fence for the concrete yard.
Like the houses, all of the town residents also get a full design treatment. They have back stories, unique personality traits, relationships with Sims throughout the town, fully-designed wardrobes, detailed faces, careers, and more—everything to make them evolving, living citizens. Some are old, some are young, some are expecting, some are in love, some are slackers, some are rising stars, and some are simply looking for their place in the world.
When you’re ready to strike out beyond the surrounding neighborhood, the town center is ready and waiting! Your Sims can swim with friends at the public pool or throw a birthday party there. If your Sims want to work out and meet other athletic Sims, they can make the gym their regular stop. Art-loving Sims can visit the art gallery for inspiration and you can even replace the art there with paintings by your Sims! The bustling park is one of the most popular hang outs with its convenient fishing spots and an open green space that is perfect for picnics, barbeques, and games of catch. I don’t know if I’m just a nerd, but I especially like the town library that sits off the corner of the park. Maybe it’s the study areas surrounded by regal bookshelves or the grand central staircase or the kid’s play area in the west wing… or maybe it’s the Power Study moodlet my Sims get when they do their homework there.
Well, hopefully this gives you an idea of some of the fun places you’ll find around town in The Sims 3. I really hope you enjoy discovering the town and all of us here on the team really look forward to seeing what you do with it! Thanks for reading!
- JoAnna
[edit] Build and Buy by Feisal
- Main article: The Sims 3/Blog/Build and Buy
[edit] The Sims 3 Fanevent by Mr A
- Main article: The Sims 3 Fanevent by Mr A
Well I don't really know where to start other than the beginning... so here it goes.
(I apologise for the quality of some of these pictures in advance. Ben moved around a lot and I was quite a way away from the laptop, but I tried my best.)
We arrived at the hotel at around 10am. After a brief wait and a chat with a couple of EA's PR team, we were whisked up into the hotel to meet Ben Bell, the Executive Producer of the Sims 3.
The meeting itself was much more intimate than I imagined. There were 5 of us, including myself, Nicky (EAUK_Aurora) as well as a few other members from the community. Due to a slight technical hitch, we ended up having to huddle around the laptop, which was good in itself. It meant that we got a look at a more hands on approach to the game rather than it being demonstrated remotely on a larger screen.
Anyway, the first thing Ben demonstrated was the new Seamless Neighbourhood. It was truly one of the most impressive things I've seen. Being able to simply scroll right out from birds eye view above the neighbourhood into your Sim's living room. He also showed us how the neighbourhood worked as other Sims continued living their daily lives all the while controlling a singular family. Ben said that he felt that it was something that had really been missing in previous Sims games and really brought a sense of community and larger world to the game.
[edit] Games
[edit] The Sims 3 Collector's Edition
- Main article: The Sims 3 Collector's Edition
The Sims™ 3 Collector's Edition will amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief—and get you all these exclusive extras:
- 2 GB THE SIMS PLUMBOB™ USB DRIVE
- EUROPEAN STYLED SPORTS CAR DOWNLOAD
- NEW THEME MUSIC FROM THE SIMS 3
- AN EXCLUSIVE PRIMA TIPS & HINTS GUIDE
Exclusive Pre-Order Offer Includes:* Vintage Sports Car Download The Sims 3 Neighborhood Poster
[edit] Introduction Disc
- Main article: The Sims 3 Introduction Disc
Recently, Target® Stores sponsored and sold a preview disc for The Sims 3. For just 99¢, anyone can see exactly what The Sims 3 is all about.
[edit] Media
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[edit] Screenshots
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 two sims dating |
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 two sims gardening |
 two sims cooking |
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 This shot attempts to capture all the graphical improvements in one image, and does a good job at it, too. |
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 a sim painting the scenery. Apparently the painting feature takes some cues from FreeTime, as it is watercolor-style. |
 two sims, apparently boyfriend-girlfriend, breaking up. Notice that the thought balloon is the same as it is in The Sims 2, and probably won't be like that when the game is released. |
 a young sim cought a big fish |
 sims fishing, apparently related to previous image |
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 a room in The Sims 3. Notice the realistic lighting (windows), shadows(floor), and reflections (couch) |
 shows a view that players will probably be seeing more often |
 depicts the feature of seamless neighborhoods |
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 The Sims 3: like stealing candy from a baby |
 It's hard in the Mob |
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 A female astronaut |
 Obese Police Officers |
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 a pool |
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 Adult Halloween Party |
 Kid Halloween Party |
 nothing like "boho chic" |
 What's better? 50's guy with modern car, or nerd with... plaid car?!?! |
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 graverobber girl! |
 sports star |
 top chef |
 crush on a Goth |
 giggle girl |
 punk girl |
 sheriff |
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[edit] CAH
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[edit] Prototyping
Attention! These are NOT final in-game screenshots! These are merely screenshots of the programs used to test the game's basic functions.
 testing relationships |
 testing the neighborhood functions |
 testing the in-house play |
 testing landscaping? |
 testing "story progression" (unknown meaning) |
[edit] Logos
Here are all the known existing official TS3 logos:
The logo found on the official website |
 The small logo found on the official website |
 The logo released by EA |
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 The name released by EA |
Here are the logos made by Simpedia staff:
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[edit] Boxart
[edit] Wallpapers
[edit] 1600x900
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[edit] 1024x768
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