If you're a Sims fan you've probably been obsessively counting down the days until March 19 when EA would reveal more details on the next iteration of their profit center popular series: Sims 3. The official site seems to be down at the moment [update: it's back up!], but we received some details from EA in a written statement we can pass on.
Expect a new engine with a new, much more detailed Create-a-Sim feature. There are more physical and personality options for Sims, in fact, the release boasts over 700 million combinations. All of the objects in the world are going to be more customizable too. Also, as we already knew, your neighborhood is going to be a bigger factor in your gameplay. It all sounds promising, but don't get too excited just yet: There's no specific date, but EA says the game won't drop until 2009.
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Sims 3 Website wrote:The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims.
While it looks a bit basic compared to an FPS game's graphics - being most reminiscent to me of something like the 2003 game Republic: The Revolution - it's still a bit of an advance for the Sims.
Lots more of them around, if nothing else - this may finally be the Simsville fans of the series have been mourning over ever since it was cancelled.
I've read a bit about it and it seems a lot more 'massively' in this iteration. Apparently you'll be able to interact with the creations of other players, a-la Spore, without having idiots runining your lovely Sim place. It actually sounds a lot more open and sand-boxy than Sims 2, and even though I'm not a fan of the series myself the spiel the developers seem to have a lot of good ideas that may tempt me to have a go. After all, I could always pass it on to Mrs Pants if I don't like it.
Baliame wrote:It may be Spore-esque but the only people I could imagine to enjoy Sims are women, 'tards and emos.
I think that's a good thing - draw more women into gaming, and attract 'tards and emos like one of those bug zappers, thereby keeping them away from me (the tards and emos, not the women).
Although Im ashamed to admit it, I have had to battle sims addiction before. Theres something about having complete authority over some little electronic persons life, and slowly abusing them/others, that I find quite cathartic.
Of course, that could just be because I am a control freak/bastard.
The way I see it, it fills a gaming need for me that shooty games and thinky games don't. And although I fully realise the futility of my argument here: Saying "You like the Sims, lol, tard!" is a bit childish. Its like the non-gamers who point at you and say "You like computer games, you must be a spotty twat with no girlfriend". Horses for courses and all that.
As for Sims 3: It actually changes quite a bit about the way sims works, in some fairly fundamental ways, all of which are a positive change in my view. Its very easy to say that EA are just milking the sims cash cow (and they inarguably are), but they are actually doing it in a way that provides us with quality dairy products at the same time. You might not like the genre, but theres little (sensible) argument against Sims being the best at what it does.
Mr. Johnson wrote:the sims only ever amused me for about a day, then i killed everyone and played AvP2 or something.
That. The only amusement I found in Sims was slowly killing all of the sims in the neighbourhood. And even that was so pathetic I didn't find it satisfying enough.
EA releases first details, screens of Sims 3
That. The only amusement I found in Sims was slowly killing all of the sims in the neighbourhood. And even that was so pathetic I didn't find it satisfying enough.