Nikki Bonigala

Finally Sims 3 is going to arrive in 2009!!! Hooray, I am a big fan of Sims and I currently have Sims 2 and Sims 2 Open for business and I enjoy them to another level.

Well Sims 3 has some brand new features that are so life like and its like your very own second life!

One of it features is that you can roam around the neighbourhood. In Sims 2 what was frustrating was you could only go to your house someone else’s house or take a  cab to go to some shop.

All the Sims in the neighbourhoods age and live out their lives simultaneously, no matter where the player is in the game. Of the eight needs of The Sims 1 & 2, only six - bladder, hunger, energy, fun, hygiene and social - remain. These will be represented by moodlets - attributes which are acquired by special events (minor events like tooth brushing, and major ones like a wedding), and affect the Sims’ behaviour. The Want and Fear system of The Sims 2 is replaced by Wishes and Opportunities. Sims will also have a Lifetime Wish - similar to the Lifetime Want from The Sims 2: University.

Several minor features from The Sims 2 expansion packs appear in the original The Sims 3, such as the “young adult” life stage, lifetime wants, personal inventories and mobile phones (University), private cars and restaurants (Nightlife), fishing (Seasons), jewelerry, beaches (Bon Voyage), tooth brushing and ceilings (Apartment Life) but none of the main features (universities from University, seasons from Seasons etc).

As in previous games, Sims can paint, but paintings will now be more unique to each Sim.

All new features are set difficulty levels for each family, hospitals where pregnant Sims may give birth, and bicycles for riding around the neighbourhood.

Some available careers are politics, criminal, military, science, chef, and entertainment. Each career has a workplace building in the neighbourhood, which Sims travel to for their shifts. Sims can also apply for jobs within these buildings. Though Sims are hidden inside buildings during the workday, the player can control their behaviour at work to a certain extent. Like previous Sims games, the job yields “opportunities” - tasks that could be finished for a reward. There are also part-time jobs. Sims can also take actions to increase their productivity while not at work, such as bringing work home or working overtime. Each career has several rewards, instead of only one as in The Sims 2. Careers can also branch into several possible promotions. Children and teens go to school, just as before, but now they can do homework with computers or library books.

he Movie Making Tool was first seen in The Sims 2, but has been expanded. Players can upload a movie and edit it, such as cutting it and adding a title and transitions. These can only be done online. There is also a tool to produce screen shot stories.

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