The player can now choose their Sims' favourite color, music type, food, etc., an option not available in The Sims 2. As in The Sims 2, body shape varies with diet and exercise. In The Sims 2, there were only three body types. In addition to this, individual fitness bars have been added to adjust the Sims' obesity and muscularity between extreme levels. Toddlers have two traits, and a new one is added for each new life stage, until they reach young adulthood - so they will have 3 as a child, 4 as a teen, then 5 as a young adult, which are the five traits they will stay with for the rest of their lives. Personality configuration for Sims has also been made more complex, with the original 'percentage bar'-style personality points replaced by a combination of traits, similar to those in the personals section of newspapers. Rod Humble described the new interface in Create-A-Sim as "drastically different". Players can customize nearly everything in the game, including furniture, clothes and shoes. This opens the door to creating completely unique Sims with regard to stature, height, weight, hair, and clothing. Sims can also take actions to increase their productivity while not at work, such as bringing work home or working overtime.Ĭreate-A-Sim is the character (Sim) builder, where the polygon 3-D models of Sims can be modified by changing a wider variety of properties than what was available in previous instalments. Like previous Sims games, the job yields "opportunities" - tasks that could be finished for a reward. Though Sims are hidden inside buildings during the workday, the player can control their behaviour at work to a certain extent. Sims can also apply for jobs with these buildings. Each career has a workplace building in the neighborhood, which Sims travel to for their shifts. Some available careers are politics, criminal, military, science, chef, and entertainment. The game will also incorporate further aspects of real life, including several new jobs. The environment will be more dynamic with shadows and trees moving in the wind. But paintings will now be more unique to each Sim. Several features from The Sims 2 expansion packs will appear in the original The Sims 3, such as the "young adult" life stage and mobile phones ( University), private cars ( Nightlife), fishing ( Seasons) and jewellery ( Bon Voyage).Īs in previous games, Sims can paint.
The Want and Fear system of The Sims 2 is replaced by Wishes and Opportunities. These will be complemented by moodlets - attributes which are acquired by special events (minor events like tooth brushing, and major ones like wedding), and affect the Sims' behaviour. Of the eight needs of The Sims 1 & 2, only four - bladder, hunger, energy and fun - remain. This preview explains that Sim houses and neighborhoods will be entirely in one seamless, continuous map, and states that "What you do outside your home now matters as much as what you do within". In the April/May 2008 edition of Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, there is a 12-page preview of the game. As of August 13, 2008, accessing the VIP section of the official site requires a passcode, which is received when signing up to the service. The regular VIP email service is still available to the public. The people who signed up early, known as "Founder" VIP's, get special screen shots before their release to the website. On May 15, an email was sent out to early sign-ups on the website.
Four screenshots that appeared on the website and were then taken down soon after, leaked onto the internet from a member of the community.Ĭopies of the video game Spore also came packaged with flyers advertising the game, with information stating whole-neighbourhood accessibility and endless possibilities on character creation. On Jthe first video preview of The Sims 3 appeared on the official website as did seven new screenshots and five Create-A-Sim screens. In the expansion pack Apartment Life, players can purchase computers or posters with the The Sims 3 logo. Like all the other games that Sims can play in The Sims 2, The Sims 3 is a looping game play video shown on the player's Sim's computer screens when played by a Sim. Sims can then play The Sims 3 on their computers or console systems. The Sims 3 game cannot be bought in the catalog. When opened, the family gets a computer with The Sims 3 on it. In the 7th expansion pack for The Sims 2, The Sims 2: FreeTime, an event occurs in which a Sim-version of Rod Humble, The Head of the Sims Franchise, gives the player's Sim family an unopened gift box.
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