Music is well done again in The Sims 3, with a decent variety of tracks available for your stereo systems, and some genuinely pleasant sounds coming from your sim’s guitar if you build up their Music ability. They seem to say “zune” a lot more frequently than most other words, so either that’s the sim version of “the” or Microsoft’s (s msft) done some very keen product placement. Simish is back in full force, and it sounds just as silly as ever. The game should run fine any any computer using the new NVIDIA (s nvda) cards, too. My test machine was an iMac with 4GBs of RAM running an ATI Radeon 2600HD graphics card.
Visually, the open world makes The Sims 3 look and feel much more like the life simulator it’s meant to be, and it’s one of the biggest reasons to upgrade from The Sims 2, in my opinion. The town map is still available, though, in case you want more simple navigation across greater distances. If you zoom out, and pan, you can see and interact with your neighbors’ houses, parks, and community buildings, and even the ocean.Ĭlicking on objects that you can see results in actions being made available, without ever having to exit out to a town map. In The Sims 3, the walls between modules are largely taken down. The Sims experience has always been primarily compartmentalized, with your house being one location, and social settings and the houses of others being entirely different, closed-off modules. The real difference with regards to graphics, however, doesn’t have to do with any landmark improvements in the basics (there aren’t any astounding changes), but rather with the way the world as a whole is set up. Objects and sims are more detailed, textures are smoother, and animations are better looking. The Sims 3 definitely looks better than its predecessors. Here’s what I found as a result of my living-by-proxy marathon. I played for nine straight hours yesterday, and another few today, eating in a hurried frenzy only when my Sim was sleeping. Best Buy was all out of the collector’s edition, but I wasn’t committed to the idea of carrying around a Plumbob USB drive anyway, so I picked up the regular copy for $49.95 and got to playing god.Īnd play it I did. So much so that I went out yesterday afternoon to pick it up. I was not terribly impressed with The Sims 3 for iPhone, but as I said in my review, it did whet my appetite for the Mac desktop version of the game.
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