The Sims 3 Gives You Complete Freedom Inspiring You With Endless Creative Possibilities

Electronic Arts announced today the first details of the highly anticipated game, The Sims 3. Featuring a brand new engine that has been in development for nearly three years, The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighbourhood right outside their door. The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighbourhood, new Create A Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customisation.

Now, The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label.

"In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighborhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system," said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. "It is this type of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy long-term gameplay."

See the sights with your Sims! The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved ones and friends... or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims. Storytelling options will multiply as your Sims stroll downtown to meet new acquaintances, head across town for lunch, spy on their neighbourhood and bump into the boss when they least expect it.

In addition to the open, living neighborhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever. Create-a-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customise just about any Sim you can imagine. From thin to full-figured to muscular, everything in between and even the extreme! In addition to determining your Sims body shape and size, you will also be able to fine-tune every feature on their faces, customise their hair style and select their skin tone, all from a vast selection of options. With so many choices to choose from, it is fun to create more realistic characters that look like you, someone you want to look like, or even a famous personality.

With the innovative and proprietary Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3, you can attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behavior and how they interact with others and their surroundings. This new system will empower you to create extremely complex and diverse in-game personalities. Will you create the nosy, inappropriate, kleptomaniac grandmother who loves to meddle in other people's business? Or the commitment-phobic, hot-headed punk rocker whose rude nature and childish disposition keeps him from scoring a date? In The Sims 3, Sims will go beyond the basic set of day-to-day needs to be distinct individuals with multifaceted personalities, who can focus both on short-term opportunities and long-term goals. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix and match, more than 700 million combinations of Sims await.

New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customize anything, anywhere! From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more, The Sims 3 gives you all the flexibility and options you need to be the architect of your dream house or explore your interior design skills to outfit your ultimate home. Your Sims can make home an ultra-deluxe mansion, a cool bachelor pad, family's dream home or charming cottage. The choice is yours in The Sims 3.

"The new engine and technologies in The Sims 3 are designed to unleash the player's imagination with realistic looking Sims who have distinct personalities and a seamless living neighborhood for them to discover," added Ben Bell, Executive Producer on The Sims 3. "Players are going to be thrilled by the level of realism in The Sims 3!"

For more information, visit the official The Sims 3 website.

nice, sims was always one of those games i liked to play every once in a while, building mansions and killing the sims off when i was bored.

will be good to see how much futher they have taken it seeing as the sims > the sims 2 was a big leap in terms of graphics and features, though it still seemed to stutter on  the best of machines.

Seen quite a few screens, looks alright but not the same jump I don't think. That said, I haven't played 2 for ages.

It stutters once you built the mansion and then wanted everything to work simultaneously.. too much memory! lol

Sims 3 looks like it's trying to focus more on the life of the sims and less on the building of the houses.. The building will still be there and hopefully better than ever, but yeah..

It looks good to me. I'm looking forward to playing this.

Sims 3, or Spore?

Sims 3...or...Spore?

Play with a dollhouse, or control an intergalactic alien race grown from primordial ooze to be the rulers of the universe?

It feels like I'm five years old again, stomping over my sister's dollhouse to get to the mud pit with all my dinosaurs in it.

Just found this article re: a release date if anyone's interested. 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24216978-5014239,00.html

I was just telling a guy last night on the Xbox.com forums that I felt like playing Sims 3, and I was telling him how the exec producer of Sims 2 showed me the new features of Sims 2 before it came out when I flew to Sydney for EA Imagine in 2004

The Sims was fun till you finished your house, then it got boring. I think my sister has all the expansions for the first and most for the second. I just could never play more than about 2 hours without it seeming repetitive.

Yeah, from what I've found it's fairly clear that the guys like the house building and the girls like controlling the Sims.

Works well for Julz and I, as I create awesome houses and then she can put her Sims in them =)

I never got into the Sims in general(probably because I was off playing WoW at the time instead) but it sounds interesting enough to have a look into one day.

I never got into the Sims in general(probably because I was off playing WoW at the time instead) but it sounds interesting enough to have a look into one day.

I am pretty sure the sims came out like 5 years before wow.

I am pretty sure the sims came out like 5 years before wow.

You're probably right, then again I really had no idea what gaming was way back when the sims was first released.   lol

Dear god I hate The SIMS, my sister plays it like mad, well, used to till I got her hooked on WoW.

At any rate, must have a decent following to sell the most copies of any game ever, seems only normal that EA would milk it with another release, despite the umpteen-thousands of expansions, whats left to do?

It's actually got a few pretty big changes, like the addition of a neighbourhood that you can wander around, instead of being limited to just your house.

It's actually got a few pretty big changes, like the addition of a neighbourhood that you can wander around, instead of being limited to just your house.

ZOMG!!!!!    seriously, I just dont see the point of a virtual life, why not live your own?

I say that to my GF, who sits on Second Life most of the time these days. She gets cranky and says she "likes it". I tell her she's an idiot, and then I have to do the washing up and cook dinner because she's "busy working as a hostess at a strip club in Second Life".

In other news, does anybody know any cute girls who like nerds? Redheads preferred, but I'm an open minded guy.

Ewwww Redheads!  =p

I have no problem with redhead haters. That just means more for me.

It's actually got a few pretty big changes, like the addition of a neighbourhood that you can wander around, instead of being limited to just your house.

ZOMG!!!!!    seriously, I just dont see the point of a virtual life, why not live your own?

Not all of us live in a neighbourhood of houses designed by gamers with crazy imaginations, evidently unlike you Daharkis =P

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Not all of us live in a neighbourhood of houses designed by gamers with crazy imaginations, evidently unlike you Daharkis =P

Seriously no sh*t!  The other day my neighboure, who happens to be a rocket scientist *slash* ghost whisperer put a new story on his house, it look like 2 seconds! No building or anything!  Only problem was, his money tree was crushed in the process, I could hear him screaming "BLERGY CHE BLARGY BLARG!!!" from my house.

I knew it.

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Seriously no sh*t!  The other day my neighboure, who happens to be a rocket scientist *slash* ghost whisperer put a new story on his house, it look like 2 seconds! No building or anything!  Only problem was, his money tree was crushed in the process, I could hear him screaming "BLERGY CHE BLARGY BLARG!!!" from my house.

For someone that hates the sims you seem to be pretty familiar with it.

Like I said, my sister plays it like mad, so despite my distain for it, she still feels compelled to rush into my room and interupt my COD4 to tell me her child services just took her baby away cos someone dropped it in the pool.....