| The Sims 3 | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
Buy New: CDN$ 49.99
as of 9/2/2010 20:33 PDT details
New (8) from CDN$ 39.99
Seller: Amazon.ca
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 114
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: 15390
Model: 15390
UPC: 014633153903
EAN: 0014633153903
ASIN: B00166N6SA
Release Date: June 2, 2009
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Product Description
Create Sims with unique personalities with Sims 3! Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It's entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you've chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives.
Amazon.ca Product Description
The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true. 
Create like never before.
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New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
View larger. | Key Game Features: - New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhoodâand take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
- Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
- New Create a Sim Functionality
- Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
- Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
- New Personality Traits
- Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
- Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
- New Unlimited Customization
- Everyone can customize everythingâdesign and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
- Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
- New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
- Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
- Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
- Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
- Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
- Get free bonus contentâdownload Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
- Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
- Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.
System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | | OS: | Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher | | Processor: | Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalent | Intel Core Duo Processor | | RAM: | Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB | 2GB | | Disc Drive: | 8x DVD ROM or faster | 8x DVD ROM or faster | | Hard Drive: | Vista & XP - 8 GB or more | At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. | | Video Card: | 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. | ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. | | Other: | Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower. | * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. |
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 Such a disappointment! June 15, 2010
Fluffy (California)
So I purchased this game about a year ago when it first came out. I was so excited after waiting so long for it! I spent 70 dollars on the collectors edition and also picked up the 20 dollar game guide. First of all, I must say that the collectors edition is NOT worth it. Stickers and a USB drive?
I've played Sims 1 and 2 for quite a while. (with and without the expansion packs) I must say, both of those games are much better than this! I feel like Sims 3 was only created to suck money out of all sims lovers! The game comes with hardly any furniture/clothing/styles and seems pointless without expansions.
My computer had over the amount of suggested ram, however this game is so slow and etchy! Usually I can deal with it, however it become extremely frustrating when it crashes! (yes, it usually crashes within 20min.)
The Sims also seem to have a mind of their own in this version. It's extremely confusing keeping track of them and it makes you feel quite out of control over them. (and isn't that the point of the game?)
Overall, I suggest Sims 2 for gaming. Sims 3 is just a complete waste of money.
Even worse than a DRM... June 2, 2010
C. S. Sauvé (Northern Ontario, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I decided two days ago to give Sims 3 a chance after discovering that it had not shipped with a system-destroying DRM. I loved the game and played straight through my first day of ownership with loads left to do (I shelled out $90+ for the base+expansion). I had to wait for a while when I first installed the game for "patches" to load and the launcher which allows you to access them had an issue because both the expansion and core game were installed, but it seemed to get past the tantrum and allowd me to play.
That was fine until I took yesterday off and decided to play tonight. After installing the latest "patch" the launcher now has locked me (and multiple other users on the forums) out of their games. The "advise" given on the forums is that the second expansion will ship with all patches up to date on the DVD. So their solution to being able to play nearly $100 worth of software is to shell out even more for the third expansion which will likely have just as many issues!?
I'd like to note that I was lucky here: I was able to pick up the expansion at $30 instead of the full price, so at least I wasn't robbed completely, but since you can't returned opened software I might as well have been.
Until and unless EA learns to treat their customers with respect I will not be purchasing another game from that company.
Will keep you busy for a while but then meh. May 15, 2010
Christina (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
I've been a big fan of the two previous games so I just had to buy it. If I hadn't got it through eBay at a significantly cheaper price I would've regretted my decision a lot.
The Sims 3 would be great for someone who's never tried TS1 or TS2. A lot of the stuff is regurgitated. Little bits of details have changed but basically they're the same stuff. At first I thought it was fun to (kinda) manage my sims at work with little modes like "business as usual" or "power working" or something like that but after a while it gets very linear. As usual, I don't have anything to do when all my sims are working.
I found their new CAS to be a complete fail. It reminds me a lot of the Elder Scrolls IV character creation mode. For those who play TESIV without face mods... yes, that's pretty much what we have here. And as far as I know EA is charging people for something they gave out for free for TS2: the bodyshop. But I guess after a lot of users started to charge other users for the so-called "premium" donation items, EA finally caught on and decided to get some of their profits.
But I should say some parts of TS3 have greatly improved upon its predecessors' shortcomings. You will get less loading screens (which is entailed by lagging if your graphic card is sub-par) and beautiful landscapes. Also you can customize virtually every item in the game with various patterns. On top of that the sims have more natural eye & body movements. I would've appreciated it more if creating decent looking sims wasn't so hard. Grids are more finely separated and you are no longer required to type in cheat codes to put things diagonally but I've found that sims still need much space to move around smoothly so you more or less end up putting things in the same way you did in TS2.
Get this game if you have a good computer and have never played any of the Sims games. The fans may be disappointed.
 Room for improvement, but overall a lot of fun! February 24, 2010
BookChick (Simcoe, ON Canada)
As a fan of The Sims from the beginning, I was excited to play The Sims 3. I was impressed with the majority of the improvements. The gameplay is a lot of fun, and having mini-challenges pop up throughout the game depending on what your skills are adds a new level of fun to the game as well. For those not willing to use cheats the money often comes in fast and furious once your Sim has a job and works a little on his/her skills. I like that you can get promotions even if your skills are not at 100% of the requirement- it allows for quicker promotions and less frustration from working on the same skills constantly. The houses that you can move in to are beautiful and easily customizable, and this game is suitable for teens as well as adults. If you want to make the game a little harder, just add to the family and suddenly you'll be scrambling to keep up with everyone. I like that you can control how fast your Sim ages. Collecting things is also a fun addition to the game.
There are drawbacks. I miss the seasons that Sims 2 has (with expansion pack purchased) and I especially miss being able to send your Sims to University. I would love for an expansion pack to come out that incorporates both of these elements because TS3 takes up a LOT of hard drive space compared to other games and also requires newer components (make sure that you meet ALL minimum requirements before you buy this one- I had to upgrade my RAM before this would work for me). Also, when your Sims sleep it takes forever, and it is often boring to wait for them to wake up. There are not a ton of outfits and hairstyles, but if you're only playing one family at a time it shouldn't bother you too much. I also wish that there was more of a variety of jobs. The ones offered are fun, but get boring when you're controlling your sixth generation of Sims.
Despite the drawbacks I would still recommend this game. I'll take a break for a month or two from it, and then go back, start a new family, and start all over again. The fact that this game never ends, and is never exactly the same, makes it a worthy addition to your game collection.
Sims 3 January 12, 2010
Jennifer Jones (Ontario, Canada)
this game is amazingly addicting, I can't even believe how fun it is, and theres a lot more to do than in sims 1 or 2, i love it!
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