The freedom of The Sims 3 Collector's Edition 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.  | 
New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
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Enjoy classics Sims activities.
View larger. | Key Game Features: - New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, 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 Functionality
- Create any Sim you can imagine with 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 curvy to muscular.
- New Personality Traits
- Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
- 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, wallpaper to window shades.
- New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
- Face short and long-term challenges 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. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
- Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
- Get free bonus content—download Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
- Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
- Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.
The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition includes Exclusive bonus content: - The Sims 3 game
- Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
- Exclusive European Sports Car Download
- New The Sims 3 theme music
- Prima Tips & Hints Guide
- $10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store
System Requirements: | 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. |
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 A welcome addition to the Sims franchise |
| Review Date: June 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Parsons, |
Perhaps I have been burned too many times by developers too quick to release a title with too little beta testing. It may be that reason that I am truly surprised at how stable and bug free the game has been for me. I have yet to have a single crash regardless of how hard I have pushed the stock game. Of course time will tell how it handles rouge or poorly engineered addons, but if the base game is any indication on how it will handle it, we should be fine.
The graphics have seen a major overhaul, water now casts specular highlights into the air and sims are far more detailed then their sims 2 counterparts as can be expected while still running pretty good on recent hardware. But the graphics really are more evolutionary then revolutionary, far better but nothing to write home about.
But the game tends to love ram and a fast harddrive, and the more you have and the faster the disk the more happy you will be with the game. On my primary system with 2G of ram and a SATA2 disk things fly, with very little wait for most things but on my older PATA w/ 1G ram things take quite awhile longer to transition. The video card however even at the lower end seems to be very capable with this game.
As for the new features. Here things get a bit more mixed, there are some great things like the new recolor tool is so handy I am wondering how I managed to live without in on sims 2. It would be nice if they had a way to import textures easily from outside of the game without going though the trouble of creating an addon. It's really nice to see that workplaces are on the map and that you can go to them to receive special training and events. The cooking system is much much better, being able to buy recipes is pretty neat and having those recipes requiring unique ingredients is also pretty cool.
There are also bad things like the shops, the game loses something not being able to walk around inside the stores and workplaces. It's nice that workplaces are on the map but the game could have added a new level for itself by allowing you to have a workspace within your workplace and allowing you to decorate that and allow you to do some play while at work.
And who can for get the just plain annoying, who's idea was it to take the diving board out of the pool. It just makes no sense. But probably the biggest hair puller is that the navigation is just different enough to have you pulling out your hair, evicting a sim from a lot and placing them in a house took me 15 mins and requiring me to bin the character and then evicting them (but if they weren't binned they would disappear into the ether). Yes there is probably better ways of doing this but I am sure I will not be the only one bitten by this.
All in all this game has a ton of potential and is performs rock solid on the systems I have tested it on. Overall I highly recommend this game.
This game does use the securom CD copy protection, but doesn't phone home nor limit installs like the previous maxis release spore but If you have a moral or technical issue with CD copy protection this game probably should be avoided.
** Update **
Apparently I was confused the physical copy game doesn't include Securom, just a simple disk check. The download version however does. Sorry for the confusion. |
It's the BEST!
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| Review Date: March 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: L. Roussel, |
| From making families, to making houses, to getting jobs and raising families, and building up skills, this game is endless fun. It keeps you tied to your chair unable to pull away from your sims' successes and failures. I love this game as I have loved every sims game previous. This one is by far the best. The only con....there are not enough hair choices. |
Sims 3 is very cool!!!
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| Review Date: June 15, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Erin Mcgaw, Nevada |
I haven't really played the sims since Sims 1 and I did get to the Makin' Magic expansion pack. I got a copy of Sims 3 and I love it. I can't stop playing. I have to fight my roommate off to get to play.
I love all the new things we can do like we have to fulfill the wishes and we get lifetime happiness points. I really want the teleportation pad. I love it and I think most who are playing it do too! |
MUST HAVE for any sims enthusiast!
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| Review Date: November 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Kimberly J. Karas, |
Have been playing the sims starting with sim tower and moving through the sims collection, sims 2 (which I loved when it came out brought a whole new dimension) and now the sims 3 is even more amazing. Neighborhood play being able to leave your house and go about the town is great! If you enjoyed a sims game before, you are very likely to love this game. The new design elements are very nice. Only issue at this time there is no option for building your own neighborhood from scratch and I do miss that. I believe that you could take the entire town apart and start from scratch that way but I haven't tried actually doing that (yet).
It's a lot of fun. The new features are all terrific. Only tech issue that I've had is that if you remain idle too long, the screen gets dark and you cannot undo that without signing out of the game and then signing back on. So if you are up answering the door and get to chatting or have to run outside a minute, you either need to play with an unattractive dim screen or restart. The good thing is that if you save and exit, you do get to come back with the screen looking normal and your progress all saved.
I liked getting the bonus storage device with the collector's edition. It's practical and I get a lot of comments on it! It's a little bit extra but I think it's worth it. The alternate town you can download for free is pretty decent too. So at this point you choose between two neighborhoods of play.
There is an online exchange for customized items that players have created and also an online store. I bought some things with my free points (which is nice) but have not put any money into buying from the store. What's nice about it (opposed to item/expansion like homestuff for sims 2) is that you can buy items individually and don't get stuck with a ton of stuff you don't like. |
Very Excitedwith the new Sims 3!
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| Review Date: May 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Tina Miller, USA |
| I have played all the Sims games up to this one and loved them all. This one is a step beyond and I love all the effects that it has. I would highly recommend this game to all Sims gamers. |
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