The Sims 3 Review

I've been a fan of the Sims saga for some time. I usually prefer SimCity, but I have owned and played all of The Sims games including 1, 2 and now 3.

The Sims 3 was released last week to much fan fare, and i decided to give the game a try. Here is my review of the game.

Over all Rating: 6/10

Positives:
-The new seemless neighborhood is a wonderful thing, no longer is your sim confined to his or her's house with no real time interaction with the outside city or town. The graphics in the seamless neighborhood are okay when from a distant but trully come to life when in close up range.

-The create a sim function is amazing in terms of detail and abilities. You now have the ability to edit all of the sims clothes with pre-designed templates and that even applies to hair, skin color, and eyes.

-In the Sims 2 you constantly had to end what fun you might be having to force your sim to go to the bathroom or eat some meal they usually burned while cooking. The Sims 3 changes that, your sim will take care of their needs on their own, ending whatever they are doing and taking care of the needs and then going back to their previous task. This is wonderful as your sim now can enjoy a real life, rather then peeing all the damn time.
Negatives:
-The actual character designs in The Sims 3 are horrid looking. The sims usually looks like they have down syndromes, due to the lack of facial structures (defined cheek bones, jaw lines and forhead petrusion). In The Sims 2 you could make your sim a super model with amazing detail. Not true for the latest edition

-Lack of user created goods. Electronic Arts, the creator of The Sims 3, took a note from The Sims 2 community which made many unique items and mods for the game and attempted to pre-include them in the new Sims 3. They failed. By taking away any individual design projects, they have taken the true creative element out of the game. Yes there are thousands of choices in furniture, and clothes. But eventually those options will run out.
-The clock in The Sims 3 is far to slow. When all your sims are tucked away in their beds and you set the game clock to go the fastest it goes at a crawl. In The Sims 2 when you clicked the fastest setting on the clock time just flew by, which was wonderful concidering you have nothing to do when your sims are sleeping. I've spent to much time sitting and waiting for my sims to sleep in The Sims 3.

Over all I say the game is worth a shot, but beware. Not everything has changed for the better

Ciao
-Sean