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The Sims 3 (PC & Mac)

Customer rating on The Sims 3 (PC & Mac): 3.5 out of 5 stars ( 146 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • New Seamless, Open Neighbourhood - Explore the Neighbourhood Freely: See the sights with your Sims! The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved one 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.
  • New Create A Sim - Create Any Sim You Can Imagine: In addition to the open, living neighbourhood, 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.
  • New Realistic Personalities - Every Sim Is A Unique Person, With A Distinct 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 behaviour and how they interact with others and their surroundings. This new system will empower you to create extremely complex and diverse in-game personalities.
  • New Unlimited Customisation - Everyone Can Customise Everything! New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customise 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.

Review

 




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. Customise 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 neighbourhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding gameplay, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not!) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true.

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on The Sims 3 (PC & Mac): 3.5 out of 5 stars

Average rating (146 reviews)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Very good sims game

chocychip | 30/10/2009 | See all chocychip's reviews (1) »

For a base game Sims 3 I think is a very good game. The problem with the loading screens is gone so can move around better. I love the personnally trait as well. Lots of people say that the graphics are bad but you can change the graphics. Also lots of people are saying that the age isn't long enough but in the options you can change the age from normal(90 days) to long (190 days ), to epic(960 days) or switch aging off completely.

I know it doesn't have the seasonal changes or pets and so on like in the expansions. But sims can grow things and this is a basegame and it has more that the Sims 2 base game did. I love that the clothes and objects can be styled with different colours and patterns. Sims 3 has lots more great features and I think it is a really good buy.

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Very good for a Sims Basegame

RyanCW | 08/10/2009 | See all RyanCW's reviews (1) »

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars Sims 3

Shadow1264 | 04/10/2009 | See all Shadow1264's reviews (1) »

Sims 3 is a awesome game some people say its got bad graphics and Sims age when you don't play. Sims 3 has bad graphics for most people because they don't change the graphics options and you can turn ageing of other Sims you not playing as off. it has all the good things of Sims 2 but with new twists e.g traits where you can choose things your Sims like to do and eat.

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Technical Details

 

12+ (PEGI)

PC system requirements:
Windows XP (SP2) / Vista (SP1)
2GHz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent for XP / 2.4GHz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent for Vista
1GB RAM for XP / 1.5GB RAM for Vista
6.1GB HDD Space (with at least 1GB of additional space for custom content and saved games)
128MB Graphics Card with Pixel Shader 2.0 support

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets:
2.6GHz Pentium D, 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo or equivalent
0.5GB additional RAM
Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-series or above

Supported PC graphics cards:
nVidia GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
G100, GT 120, GT 130
GTS 150, GTS 250
GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295

ATi Radeon series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
4850, 4870

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator series
GMA 3-Series
GMA 4-Series


Mac system requirements:
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
Intel Core Duo Processor
2GB RAM
6.1GB HDD Space (with at least 1GB additional space for custom content and saved games)
128MB ATi X1600, nVidia 7300 GT or Intel Integrated GMA X3100

Important Note! This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Supported Mac graphics cards:
nVidia GeForce series
7300, 7600
8600, 8800
9400M, 9600M GT
GT 120, GT 130

ATi Radeon series
X1600, X1900
2400, 2600
3870
4850, 4870

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator series
GMA 3-Series
This information is based on specifications supplied by manufacturers and should be used for guidance only.

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