Not ones to put a cash-cow out to pasture, Electronic Arts keep plugging away on the hugely successful The Sims franchise with expansion after expansion. The most recent release however, was deemed a big enough overhaul to be considered a full sequel and so we have The Sims 3. Another epic time-sink for the casual player and a guilty pleasure for many a hardcore gamer.
Mike braved the addictive tendrils of this new iteration and thankfully lived to tell the tale. Find out all the details in his in-depth
The Sims 3 review.
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Also there was plenty of objects missing that had become the norm in past games, like a spa.
I made a mini me and set up his life goal as a master angler. Problem was I had to capture and keep 15 fish in tanks, and the only fish tank in the game was a small fish bowl. I ended up making a room in the back yard that just had 15 fishbowls on tables with fish over 50kgs in each one. Lame.
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Posted 05:08pm 07/7/09
Oh, Tit, you can change how fast/slow your sims age in the options
Posted 05:13pm 07/7/09
Posted 06:56pm 07/7/09
Seemed good...but yeah over it.
Posted 07:19pm 07/7/09
it's a better looking version of sims 2 without the content basically.
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Posted 10:05pm 07/7/09
Found it very relaxing too, just pottering away doing random stuff.
Posted 10:07pm 07/7/09
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Posted 12:12am 08/7/09
After reading thru that I really wanna try the game out and do something similar.
Posted 02:18am 08/7/09
Their son now doesn't have to do s*** all because 2x ghosts with lvl 10 painting + mood thingy = 24/7 speedy Masterpeices that sell for 4k+, can pump out 6+ per 24 hours per ghost.
But at the moment that's all I do... get them doing that and collecting cash, seems so simple, needs more. Over it.
Posted 08:42am 08/7/09
First impressions:
I was really drunk and so I couldn't drive the game, I had my housemate controlling it. I made him make a fat chick and we exercised her thin. When she became thin she suddenly was hated by her sister.
Sims left alone are probably the dumbest things ever. They leave s*** everywhere they turn up to work. On a side note that night i forgot where i placed several of my drinks and found them later during the night, stale.
I cant believe how quickly food goes off! On a side note I realised the next morning I should probably get someone to empty our fridge.
You end up falling into this routine of working and waiting for the weekend and then the weekend comes and your sim seems to have no point in life. On a side note i worked 7:30 - 4:00 every day that week and then did nothing but stay home that weekend.
It felt a little too close to home really..
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Posted 11:10am 08/7/09
i have no idea how this game is so addictive, i spent like 2 hours basically feeding, s***ting, showering and getting them to work for like 3 days or whatever.
i looked at my watch and i had accomplished very little
closed the game and thought f*** you sims
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Posted 02:41pm 08/7/09
That just goes a long way to justifying theories about how our universe is just the playground of some whimsical superior beings/gods/whatever. We're so totally on the same path to creating a mini-universe like that.