EA Releases First Details On The Sims 3
EA have revealed the first details on The Sim 3 and have announced it is due out sometime in 2009. The title will feature a brand spanking new engine that has apparently been under development for 3 years. The game's initial offerings include a "new seamless, open neighbourhood, new Create-A-Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization." Thankfully the company goes into much more detail about this new neighborhood and the other features in their press release. You can read that after the jump.
The Sims, at least to me, have been somewhat of a novelty game. I think it's fun to pick up every now and again (my heart is very much with the Sim City series, but that's another story). Even when I do fire it up, I rarely play it for a significant amount of time. So far, it seems like there are big changes in store for the latest entry to the series. I may have to give it a go and see what's up when some kind of demo arrives. For now, I'll just keep an eye on it from afar. As I mentioned earlier, you can read a lot more about the game and its new features after the jump.
EA REVEALS FIRST DETAILS OF NEXT-GENERATION FLAGSHIP PC GAME, COMING IN 2009
The Sims 3 Gives You Complete Freedom, Inspiring You With Endless Creative Possibilities
Guildford, UK -- March 19, 2008 -- Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced today the first details on one of interactive entertainment's most anticipated games, The Sims™ 3. Featuring a brand new engine that has been in development for nearly three years, The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighbourhood right outside their door. The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighbourhood, new Create-A-Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization. The Sims 3 will launch globally in 2009.
The Sims franchise has long been recognized for its appeal to a universal audience, both male and female, and at any age. Its broad appeal and loyal The Sims community has vaulted the franchise to an impressive 98 million games sold around the world and translated into 22 different languages. Celebrated for its creativity, humour, and community, The Sims franchise has become a global and cultural phenomenon since its inception in 2000.
Now, The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label.
"In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighbourhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system," said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. "It is this type of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy long-term gameplay."
New Seamless, Open Neighbourhood--Explore the Neighbourhood Freely.
See the sights with your Sims! The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved one and friends--or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims. Storytelling options will multiply as your Sims stroll downtown to meet new acquaintances, head across town for lunch, spy on their neighbours and bump into the boss when they least expect it.
New Create A Sim--Create Any Sim You Can Imagine.
In addition to the open, living neighbourhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever. Create-a-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customize just about any Sim you can imagine. From thin to full-figured to muscular--everything in between and even the extreme! In addition to determining your Sims body shape and size, you will also be able to fine-tune every feature on their faces, customize their hair style and select their skin tone, all from a vast selection of options. With so many choices to choose from, it is fun to create more realistic characters that look like you, someone you want to look like, or even a famous personality.
New Realistic Personalities--Every Sim Is A Unique Person, With A Distinct Personality
With the innovative and proprietary Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3, you can attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behaviour and how they interact with others and their surroundings. This new system will empower you to create extremely complex and diverse in-game personalities. Will you create the nosy, inappropriate, kleptomaniac grandmother who loves to meddle in other people's business? Or the commitment-phobic, hot-headed punk rocker whose rude nature and childish disposition keeps him from scoring a date? In The Sims 3, Sims will go beyond the basic set of day-to-day needs to be distinct individuals with multifaceted personalities, who can focus both on short-term opportunities and long-term goals. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix and match, more than 700 million combinations of Sims await. You never know who'll meet in The Sims 3!
New Unlimited Customization--Everyone Can Customize Everything!
New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customize anything, anywhere! From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more, The Sims 3 gives you all the flexibility and options you need to be the architect of your dream house or explore your interior design skills to outfit your ultimate home. Your Sims can make home an ultra-deluxe mansion, a cool bachelor pad, family's dream home or charming cottage. The choice is yours in The Sims 3.
"The new engine and technologies in The Sims 3 are designed to unleash the player's imagination with realistic looking Sims who have distinct personalities and a seamless living neighborhood for them to discover," added Ben Bell, Executive Producer on The Sims 3. "Players are going to be thrilled by the level of realism in The Sims 3!"
For more information visit www.TheSims3.com.
Product Specifications
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Electronic Arts Redwood Shores
Ship Date: U.S., Europe and Asia: 2009
Platform: PC
Category: Simulation/Strategy
BBFC Rating: RP (Rating Pending)
PEGI Rating: RP (Rating Pending)
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Posted to Video Games on 19 March 2008
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From the description of the neighborhood, it almost sounds like parts of the defunct Simsville will be incorporated into the gameplay of this new Sims game. While I'm not a huge fan of the game, I'll probably pick this up. Nothing like having a house full of gay sims that go at it like rabbits.
I love building houses in the Sims. I use cheats to get scads of money, grab the largest plot, and hours later emerge with a block of themed fabulosity! My favorite was La Toya's first floor open garden and her second floor futuristic Goddess palace --invite only!
I'm still caught in the throes of Sims2 fever (it comes back roughly every six months or so, usually around the time the latest expansion comes out), and I'll admit I'm excited about the 'traits' and the town looks lovely, but the Sims themselves... I use enough custom content in my game that few of my Sims look like the base Sims 2 Sims, but even those were more appealing than these ones. Let us hope this is just a stopover until release, with better looking Sims.
I just hope, when the time comes, I can reforge my Sims' city into the crack den/ trailer park I enjoy so much already.
The female close ups look nice, definitely different from the typical Sims 2 females, but the guys they show in those shots - seriously taken straight out of Sims 2.
Dangit, that sounds interesting. I told myself I would be happy with Sims 2, and I wouldn't drop another couple hundred getting Sims 3 and all of the expansion packs for it. Bah.