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June 3, 2009
The Sims 3 review
It's shiny, sexy, and perplexingly emerald-green, but more than anything, The Sims 3 - Electronic Arts' groomed and gussied-up digital dollhouse - is an intrepid and wonderful game.
Wonderful, because The Sims 3 is finally the game the original aspired to be, a sprawling valley-sized slice of virtual reality that's yours to tinker with entirely, no longer hemmed in by invisible barriers or repetitious characters.
Intrepid, because The Sims 3's decked-out catalogue of deceptively mundane activities illustrates even better how a game where you "tinker with the uneventful" can be so much more eventful than others conventionally packed with explosions, aliens, and magic swords.
Surprisingly, EA didn't mess with core series values, but then, it didn't have to. When your premise hasn't changed ("strategic life simulation") the writing's on the wall: give your base an order of magnitude more to fiddle with, pretty it up, and make all that "extra" even easier to manipulate.
Because it does, The Sims 3 represents a triumph of synthesis and style, an evolutionary leap rooted in progressive customisability, a gracefully architected interface, and several strikingly deep creative tools.
Want the year's most compulsively playable, demographically far-flung PC game? You've found it - it's The Sims 3.
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Electronic Arts The Sims 3 scored:
9.1 out of 10
The 2 most helpful reviews based on 5 reviews:
Joanna, London
10- Good Points
- I bought this game for my daughter and she is very happy. I saw the graphics and how she play so I can highly recommend it .
- Bad Points
- No bad points
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The Sims 3
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Sarah, Liverpool
10- Good Points
- I love the new challenges of collecting items for money it helps when your low ! Also growing your own food is great. I love how you can totally design the whole house to match other items of furniture too.
Being able to purchase lifetime awardsis a great idea as it helps you're gameplay throughout.
This new sims is absolutely amazing i have played all the sims and this tops the lot :@)
- Bad Points
- Fast forwarding time when your sim goes to sleep or work is a little slow which can be boring when you want them to hurry something up but other than that I can't fault the game at all its brilliant :@)
Confirmed purchase on 29 May 2009