The Sims 3

Publisher: EA Games

Developer: The Sims Studio

Category: Simulation

Release Dates

N Amer - 06/02/2009

Digital Download - 06/02/2009

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GameZone's Review

9.0
GZ Rating

Gameplay	9
Graphics	8.5
Sound	8.5
Difficulty	Medium
Concept	9.5
Overall	9.0

Reviewer: Angelina Sandoval

Review Date: 06/08/2009

Take the best elements of past The Sims games and add more improvements and you get an idea of how amazing The Sims 3 is and why fans will be playing it for a very long time.

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Avg. Web Rating

8.6

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Description

The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood where they can roam and explore all new surroundings, customize your Sims appearance and personality and enjoy quick and rewarding gameplay. The neighborhood is alive and constantly evolving so what happens to a Sim on one side of the neighborhood could impact your Sims on the other side of town! If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?

Features

Seamless, Open Neighborhood!
A brand new engine allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood, that is alive and constantly evolving, where they can roam and explore all new surroundings
Create-A-Sim
The new feature is easy-to-use and more powerful than ever, letting you fine-tune every aspect of your Sims face and determine much more to make lifelike Sims
Unique Personalities
You have the option to select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to create an endless number of truly diverse individuals
Unlimited Customization
You can customize everything; The Sims 3 allows for infinite possibilities to design the interior and exterior of your Sims surroundings
Quick and Rewarding Gameplay
Based on personality traits, skills and career choices, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges, things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards or not!

Hardware Requirements

FOR WINDOWS VISTA

Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
1.5 GB RAM
At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent 0.5 GB additional RAM

SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS

NVIDIA GeForce series

FX 5900, FX 5950 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280

ATI Radeon™ series

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

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly. Intel integrated chipsets featuring underclocked parts will not perform adequately.

Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants will have low settings selected, but should run satisfactorily.

Please note that attempting to play the game using video hardware that isn't listed above may result in reduced performance, graphical issues or cause the game to not run at all.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.