Can someone give me a good review of Sims 3?
aqua-sheep:
Thank you Chaavik!! I'll definitely check those out.
fornax:
I agree with the majority of the points Chaavik made, in particular the positive ones, but there was no mention of a few very important negative aspects.
1. The sims themselves. Go around the numerous posts about the looks of the sims in this new game... EA did not put enough emphasis on this one important aspect of the game, and simply put, TS3 sims faces and body customization are a huge letdown. You would think that after all the hype about the many sliders available to shape a sim to your liking, one would be able to create unique looking sims in every respect, but it just isn't so. Faces follow a general 3D model shape that consistently share common elements, in particular, eyes, noses, foreheads, and and overall roundish appearance of the head, that in the end turns out cartoonish and lacking in uniqueness. There's a hack by MTS (Delphy) that forces the adjusting sliders out of their intended bounds, but remember this a hack that has to be present in any game sharing sims made this way, and yet another preliminary hack that pre-empts many others from exixting in your computer. As far as the sim bodies, only overall fatness (or skinniness) and overall muscular appearance (not as noticeable as fatness) adjustments are possible. Forget about being able to adjust separately upper or lower body parts, so no manly chests or bigger boobs, and no calf adjustment for skinny or muscular legs.
2. Single neighborhoods. While this is great as far as having a hood which is alive in almost every respect, there is no solid promise from EA that we will be able to generate our own turfs or place lots or roads anywhere we please. Believe me, even with the additional Riverview neighborhood, the game can become redundant. Yet, hopefully they will surprise us later.
3. TS3 basic design to limit third party modding and custom content. Here everybody agrees: the game isn't as open as before because of EA's increasing desires to milk the players. The EA store is the No. 1 proof, go check the neverending posts opposing this practice.
So, generally speaking this is a gorgeous game to look at on your screen, with gameplay a lot deeper than The Sims 2, and I have to say that high computer specs are not really that necessary for it to run smoothly. Here EA wrote better programming code than with TS2, I have not changed one thing in any of my two main PC's, and this game runs better than TS2 for sure. But again, my TS2 is fully expanded and TS3 is still basic, which has to be considered too. But then again, TS2 doesn't give you an entire neighborhood all at once (or so to speak). As for the loading times, it loads fast, but there are two loads, one for the main game and then for your saved game. My recommendation to you find someone that has it and check it out first.
Good luck.
aqua-sheep:
thanks, fornax. those things are good to know :)
argentroisin:
I know this review is years after the original post but maybe it will help someone decide if they want to try the Sims 3. I enjoyed the game play and the way you could recolor any item, but there were two main issues with Sims 3 which sent me to play Sims 2 instead. You have to sign in to Origin on-line before Sims 3 will even start. That means if your internet connection is disconnected you have no way to be able to play Sims 3. I looked for many ways, but if the game gets updated past an early version you have to sign in on Origin. Origin also has continuous updates so if it has an update you have to update Origin before you can even start Sims 3. The other issue I had is that it takes almost as long to save and exit as it takes to load the game in the first place. I understand about long loading times, but I don't understand why it takes as long to exit the game. Even exiting without saving first takes a long time.
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