| The Sims 3 | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $29.99
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Rating:  514 reviews
Sales Rank: 91
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: life_simulation_strategy_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 15390
Model: 15390
UPC: 014633153903
EAN: 0014633153903
ASIN: B00166N6SA
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Seamless, Open NeighborhoodExplore the neighborhood freely. | | • | New Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine. | | • | New Realistic PersonalitiesEvery Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality. | | • | New Unlimited CustomizationEveryone can customize everything! | | • | The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. |
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Product Description
Get inspired by the endless creative possibilities and unexpected moments of surprise and mischief in The Sims 3! Customize your Sims' appearances and choose up to five traits to create individual personalities. From the “Romantic” trait or “kleptomaniac” trait to “evil” trait, create millions of unique Sims from the vast amount of personalities. New goal-oriented gameplay enables you to choose which short or long-term objectives you want your Sims to pursue and even determine your Sims' destinies in life. Create and edit your own movies by capturing your gameplay moments or select from a library of clips. Then join The Sims 3 online community where you can show off all of your creations, get free bonus content, hear the latest news, and more!
Amazon.com Product Description
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. 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. 
Create like never before.
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New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
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.
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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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 514
 Needs more testing! March 17, 2010
Mr. B. T. Staniford
This game was completely spoiled for me by appalling technical difficulties. I write computer device drivers for a living and play games alot so I'm well capable of exploring every possibility for getting a game working. I have two machines with two different graphics cards and "The Sims 3" crashed constantly on both machines. Both these machines well exceeded the specs published on the box. I tried to return the game but found that of course these days, PC games can only be returned if the disc is physically damaged not if the game just doesn't work as designed. I tried to sell the game second hand to recoup some of the money I'd spent on this poorly tested waste of a game but of course, because the game utilises evil anti piracy software (which only affect honest users because actual pirates can trivially work round them of course) the game couldn't be resold. EA's technical support simply consists of a preium line phone automated phone service which you'd be crazy to use.
All in all, I will never buy another EA game, I suspect you get much better service from the pirates on the internet that you do from this dodgy organisation who take your money and run after selling you a lemon.
 I should have listened.... March 16, 2010
Ngoc H. Lieu (San Clemente, CA USA)
I read all of the reviews and thought to myself maybe you all were being too critical, so I decided to buy the game despite how many reviews I have read. WRONG! OMG, it is the worst game from EA I have ever bought.
Like every other people said, it is a complete different from the Sims 1 and 2. The sim whom I created looks completely different from when I made it. The neighborhood looks great but... can't modify it like I used to on the Sims 1 and 2. Oh and even I paused the game while building the stupid house... the other sims still aging (wtf?) The only good thing about the building feature is that you are able to build a fully function basement w/o using any cheats. I can almost never look at the house straight, meaning the camera view is always at an angle... Basically, in all 3 sims games, the sims 2 seems to be the best game ever and the sims 3 is the worst one ever!
The aging off and story progression off button are not working so don't even think about it.
Don't buy it if you want to waste your money for something you would get bored after 1 try. This game should not be named the Sims 3. The game has 80% control over everything leaving you with 20% control where in the other sims 1 and 2, you basically has almost the ultimate power over your sims and the neighborhood.
 I Simply love the Sims! March 7, 2010
Mary (Dominican Republic)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is awesome, and the process of purchase was perfect. Everything on time and well received. Excellent.
Simply not in the spirit of its predecessors. February 28, 2010
E. J. Forrest (Ashland, OR USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really, really wanted to like The Sims 3. I've been a hardcore Simmer since the release of The Sims, and I had faith that this game would not be a let down.
However, The Sims 3 lacks a soul. In order for the game to be playable, you have to download a ton of mods. Without the mods, the Sims are dull, shapeless, and uniform in appearance. "Pudding-faced" as the modding community calls it. While the previous Sims games were very mod-friendly, this new incarnation is not. Not only do you have to spend hours trying to get your game to work after each and every update, but EA appears to go out of their way to make game customization next to impossible.
Since getting the game six months ago, I've had to uninstall and reinstall at least five times. I never had to do that with the previous two games.
To make matters worse, if you can finally get you game to work, it's sort of...boring. It lacks in sim-to-sim interaction, and has no humanity.
Save your money and purchase a mega-back of The Sims 2 expansion packs. I wish I hadn't sold mine.
Don't waste your time or money on this one February 24, 2010
Sunny
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
While Ea promised that this game would be a huge step up, that the gamer would be able to create new and exciting faces, they were being disingenuous. The faces all look like rubber. They should've stuck with the original sims that had realistic faces, like real people.
The "town" that they created, is rabbit hole town. You cannot go into any of the buildings with your sim, nor create any of your own "town" buildings.
They gave less clothing, less furnishings, etc., so that you would have to go to the ea store and buy with real money ( I will not stoop to that level) more items for your game, that should've been incorporated into the game in the first place, as in the original sims. That was EA's best effort by far. (Maxis)But PROFIT obviously is far more important to EA than satisfied customers.
Sims 2 was slow loading just to get into the game. Sims 3 is far worse in loading and slows even more while trying to build and make sims.
This game is not worth the money by any means, and is inferior to the original sims and Sims 2. Ea has mislead its customers and it's a pity that they chose this unrighteous path. Those type of choices never pay in the end.
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