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I Simply love the Sims!

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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.

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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

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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.

Awesome

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I really enjoy playing this game. What I found most interesting is that my "Virtual" son acts like my actual son lol. Its so weird. but I love it lol.

Still plagued with the same boring micromanaging as the others

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I wrote a review for the Sims 2. I can largely copy and paste it because the progression from Sims 2 to Sim 3 is the same as The Sims 1 to Sims 2.

This new version has much better graphics, more realistic movement, and better social options. The Sims 3 has refined the idea of having goals and a purpose to the game a bit more. However, the problem persists in that there's little pay off. You are doing all the same sorts of boring things you've always done. The goals just makes you choose one boring thing over another.

See, the problem with this game is something they did wrong from the get-go in the Sims 1 and Sims 2 and still haven't fixed: Making people eat food and go to the bathroom is boring. Think about life -- real life, your life. What makes it interesting? What resonates? Not taking a shower. It really is our emotional connections and social interactions. But this game addresses it in such an unfulfilling way.

This game misses out on the driving force behind anything we do in real life. Cause, followed by effect. The behavior of the Sims doesn't match the way real people act. For example, you can have a Sim eat too much food and get fat. Once they are fat, they will walk a little slower than they did before. They won't get depressed or need new clothes. They just walk slower. So what? There is absolutely no reason to make your Sim eat too much food in the first place. There should be a benefit of it for the Sim that would make him want to overeat. Maybe it could increase their mood or maybe it could increase their comfort level or maybe their mood or comfort would suffer if they didn't overeat.

This game acts like the only thing that affects our behavior are plainly and simply our physical needs. The game completely misses the psychology and emotions of humans that make us more interesting than animals. We might as well be controlling a pack of bears and having them pick berries and mate and eat and poo. Because that's this game is: mundane micromanaging.

The first time around playing, exploring all the different social options and possibilities is interesting, and it can be fun to take the mechanical boring action on the screen and create your own storyline to it. But the truth is, it does get old quickly. And the expansion packs give you some other stuff to do, but they get old just as quickly, if not quicker.