Format:CD-ROM Platforms:Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X Genre:artificial_life_simulation_games ESRB:Teen Media:DVD-ROM Edition:Collector's Autographed:No Memorabilia:No Batteries Included:No Age:12 - 20 years Operating System:Mac OS X Shipping Weight (lbs):0.7 Dimensions (in):7.7 x 5.6 x 2.5
Amazon.com Product Description The freedom of The Sims 3 Collector's Edition 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.
New seamless neighborhoods. View larger.
New create a Sim and personalities. View larger.
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Key Game Features:
New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and 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 everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
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 content—download 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.
The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition includes Exclusive bonus content:
The Sims 3 game
Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
Exclusive European Sports Car Download
New The Sims 3 theme music
Prima Tips & Hints Guide
$10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store
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.
Product Description The Sims 3 will surprise you with unexpected momentsof fun and mischief!Product InformationCreate Sims with unique personalities with Sims 3! Every Sim is nowa truly unique person with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evilartistic insane and romantic kleptomaniacs? It’s entirely up to you.Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you’ve chosen and watch howtheir traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Ifyour Sim is a hopeless romantic take them to the bistro in search of love. Takeyour Outdoorsy Sim fishing in the park or lead your evil Sim to the graveyard toconverse with less than savory characters after dark. If your Sims are in theright place and the right time who knows what might happen? Combine over 60personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives.IncludesThe Sims 3 Collector's Edition Includes: The Sims 3 Exclusive 2 GB USB Drive and Carabiner European Styled Sports Car Download New The Sims 3 Theme Music Prima Tips and Hints Guide $10 worth of SimsPoints to Shop OnlineNew FeaturesSeamless LivingNeighborhood Explore the ever-changing neighborhood — and take your Sims to meet friends in the park discuss fine art at the gallery 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.Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine with new 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 full-figured to muscular.Personality Traits Select up to five individual personality traits such as brave artistic kleptomaniac clumsy paranoid and romantic to create an endless number of truly diverse Sims. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with theProduct FeaturesExpand your game with exclusive content and
Sims 3 is good, not quite great.August 27, 2010 James Duke I love this game, but it has a few problems. Besides the glitchy community site and shop, just random issues you may or may not hit in the game. Nothing to make it unplayable though. Just trying sometimes.
Fun game but bad bugsJuly 17, 2010 S. Hinkle(PA USA) This is a really fun game when it works well and it can keep you entertained for hours on end. In the interest of not being long winded I have to say that it does have some serious bugs, sadly. For example; I've had problems where I try to move my Sims to a different house and the whole game just locks up and the only way to get out is to turn off my computer (not a good thing) and reboot. Not even Ctrl+Alt+Del works to get out of that fiasco. Second thing is something I can only think might be related to getting far in the game. I had a game where my Sims owned most of the town and I went in to play the game only to be greeted with an overhead map of the game but I could not do anything. I tried everything and browsed the support boards but finally I gave up and started a new game. I played the new game to a point where my Sims owned most of the town and next time I went in to the saved game it did it again. Twice in a row that apparently getting really far in the game causes it to get screwed up. I don't know what the problem might be and if finding the solution requires the player to scrub the boards more than I already have then there is something wrong. Other than that though, it really is a fun game and the graphics are excellent.
Very Excitedwith the new Sims 3!May 4, 2010 Tina Miller(USA) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have played all the Sims games up to this one and loved them all. This one is a step beyond and I love all the effects that it has. I would highly recommend this game to all Sims gamers.
more than expectedApril 3, 2010 John B. Riekena IV(Atsugi, Japan) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful
it make me save my favorite word "TITS" cause thats how cool this game is to me i havent payed it sense back in the day....which was a wednesday by the way! so you should get the game!
Sims fan since 2001 is not impressed... (waste of money)March 26, 2010 Ismael H. Zorrilla(Atlanta, GA USA) 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Now I know why Will Wright decided to leave Maxis...
With the failure of success from SimCity Societies, SimAnimals and SPORE, It's not a surprise that The Sims 3 isn't selling as much as EA thought.
At the same time it is a surprise for me. If you're a hardcore Maxis fan like me, you know that you would never think a day like this would come. An ending to The Sims franchise. Although it hasn't been said yet, I'm pretty sure the lack of sales from this sequel will cause the downfall of Maxis which means "no more sims".
But, hopefully a miracle happens and the original developers save the day. *sigh*
Now, I don't think The Sims 3 is absolutely HORRIBLE, but at the same time, this being a 2nd sequel out of a 10 year franchise, you kind of expect a monstrous improvement. Games are becoming more fun and graphics are becoming more realistic. The Sims 3 has the "realistic" part down. The neighborhood looks real, but the sims are just DULL. Other than their voices and interests, their personalities don't really come out. I'd hate to compare it with The Sims 2, but that sequel, although the sims were too "cartoonish", their personalities really made an impact on what kind of friends they made. I also think the "cartoonish" effect in that sequel is what made it sell the most. Cartoons = humor. People love to laugh!
Which leads to my conclusion, I think people loved the Sims because they got a good laugh from the simulator. We connected with them as if WE were the sim. I don't get that feeling when I play The Sims 3. I get more of a "click here, click there and the game controls the rest" feeling. It feels limited & the sims lack a "soul". Which is NOT expected considering we spend 8 years buying expansion packs, so why is it that this sequel is starting over as well? Where's the clubs? Where's the colleges? Where's the pets? We can't keep repeating this cycle of expansion packs. If we do that, there won't be room for NEW, FRESH ideas. And that, in my opinion, is what happened to The Sims 3. It caused the franchise to lose its true "mission" in game development.
I am definitely disappointed, but maybe you won't. Either way, I do NOT think this sequel is worth paying 50 BUCKS + shipping & handling + delivery time for. Wait a few years, find it for a good deal then if you really want to play, if you feel you can't wait, try and see if you can get it from a friend. All I'll say is, do not waste YOUR money on this mediocre revision of a sequel.
