The grandchild of a legend: The Sims 3 - Can it meet expectations?

The grandchild of a legend: The Sims 3 - Can it meet expectations?

The Sims 3 (Video Game)

Customer Review

There are, in my opinion, two games which have penetrated the border of nothingness and have managed to be on the ground to collect so and became legends. One bears the name of WoW, the other The Sims.

Now in 2009, 9 years after the birth of this legend, the 3rd part has been released with a lot of banter before the start.
Is there Securom: "Yes!" First it was, then "No?" followed by "NO!" followed, but by an outcry "Yes?" was forced away. For reassurance for all who do not know, there is no Securom but something else, but another hook, but more on that later.
(It should be noted at this point would be that took place here on Amazon.com a hilarious battle of the thesis of the copy. Only spammten "Anti-Securom" thinkers the review with 1 star to what the "EA-Securom" pendant with 5 Stars Reviews responded. When it became known that EA waives Securom, Amazon erased all the negative reviews, which the reviews on Amazon and is the average rating have lost any value in my eyes, as the positive reviews were spam.)

For some time, it seems to me as if PC games are getting worse. It will no longer be developed so that only defies before innovation and the joy and other emotions, which leads a development embodies a game. Today's games are about 90% a game that relies on the Main Stream, remains at the old values ​​and only still there, so you can earn a lot of money. Whether it's finished or half in development status, does not matter, the main thing is to buy enough so stupid to make profit. If the buyer luck has followed a few GB patch that staggered the game after 1-2 years to release worthy status.
If the sale does not work, it pushes the blame on the evil piracy, these pirates of the Internet that have the game brought in other ways and have thus damaged the sale. Here are the statistics are fictitious at best.
The worst example of this trend are as a result Title: Gothic 3 and Empire: Total War, just to mention a few names, where you can be sure that the fans of vorrangegangen titles buy the game even if it is to say the least waste ,

I'm sorry, I had to get rid of. Fortunately heard The Sims 3 not quite to this division. While there is innovation kingdom as the Church, but that was expected. Since it comes from EA was the worst to be expected and it is in parts even come even worse than expected. The hand that EA gave its customers and Securom Sims 3 took has pointed nails. These nails is the EULA ("End User License Agreement") which you will have to confirm during installation. And the contract that you have to lower mark if you want to download Riverview and use Exchange.
These contracts is a very good article on gamestar.de which turns I can only recommend.
In short you have to sign that The Sims 3 is bound at a Registration of the account that you have to create and which may not be sold or given away -> Used buyers do not know whether they can use the online features.
EA adheres even in the contract open the possibility of a forced Online Registration alá Securom demand at any time.
Furthermore EA refers to the fact that when you are on the internet during start of The Sims 3, EA data from the player as IP, software, hardware, and how to collect game, etc. and may, if appropriate, sell and distribute. This information is allegedly collected Anonymous, but by collecting the IP, which is the address of a computer, everything else is as Anonymous.
Another important point is that EA with the company IGA Worldwide, a contract has been received and The Sims 3 shows in-game advertising and stores how long and from what angle you have seen the advertisement. These data and advertising will only be saved and shown when you're on the Internet.

This envelope of hidden insolence you are confronted still minute before the first game.

Now for the Games Features:

Editor:

+ The faces look very real from
+ Many settings
+ Hair color very closely Adjustable
+ All clothes are in color and design customizable
+ There are socks and shoes
+ Many character intrinsically managed to select
+ All colors and brightness adjustable at Eye Color
- No African-Looking heads in Vorerstellung choice
- Create special settings such as a realistic nose curvature are close to impossible if you deviate from the standard type.
- Little changeable settings for the eyebrows
- Little hair
- Beards still unrealistic
- Little garments
- Many garments in women look very old-fashioned
- Funny sunglasses

Although it looks as if the negative side there are still several reasons outweigh the troublemakers. All in all, the editor well done, even if you can tell by the hair and clothes, but that EA wants to rip its customers in the Sims own "Store" to more at the end.

Build:

+ Familiar Sims Control
+ Diagonal Building
+ Furniture in 45 ° rotation
+ Clear menu
+ Accurate tools
+ Adjustability of the roof angle
+ Almost all objects can be individually dyed and texturing
- Diagonal walls are difficult to supply with good-looking roofs
- Strange-looking finished roofs

For the construction and installation mode is to say that he is very well done. The well-known was successfully refined with a few new features and improved. Rotate with 45 ° angle gets the apartment a whole new twist.

City:
+ Freely accessible
+ NPC life and do not appear just like that
+ A very nice city (Sunset Valley)
+ No load times ...
- ... But strong stuttering and noticeable texture structure
- Only one or two cities, one is unable to make himself
- Given land, can not be displaced
- Neighborhood can only be changed on land

The city Sunset Valley is truly a feast for the eyes, with the living NPCs she soon grows fond, against Riverview 6 min was not needed it to 98 MB downloading and installing value.
The strong stuttering disturb not really, but could yet become obstacles in computers, which are not as strong. The only these two cities, with the same old NPC, etc. I find it very tiring, that I can not even really change, can even the unlimited accessibility not quite make up for it.

Simulation:

+ It is possible to leave alone Sims Life
+ City is well simulated
+ Many jobs and opportunity to become a partner of a company
+ Taxis cost anything
+ More interesting Gespächsmöglichkeiten
+ RPG-like Belohungssystem
+ One can impregnate without marriage
+ Aging adjustable and suppressible
+ Behavior in school and at work set
- Rewards relatively useless
- Although the editor selected self managed to come validity but do not offer much variety special
- Cars pointless because taxis do not cost anything
- Giving professions, save more money, no motivation for the transport, as there is no more reward when you're at the top.
- Chains of command are often interrupted by free will
- Still the Sims take a long time for an activity
- Too easy

For the simulation I can only say that they still appear very orderly to me, but a long-term motivation as 3 triggered the two predecessors of Sims in me, I can not tell, because I lack the variety in jobs and in the lives of Sims , All is
equal and too easy, as for example a meal, no matter how good, is more than enough to saturate a ledge, even though he was starving before on.

Graphics:

+ Very detailed up close
+ Good animation of Sims
+ Beautiful water
+ Good overall impression
- No LotR or ascertainable Bloom (sunsets or sunrises blinded and do not emit)
- From wide it takes similarities to Sims 1 to
- Houses and furniture from the same Dateilgrad the from Sims 2

The graphics looks pretty, but nothing earth shattering.

Conclusion:

The Sims 3 has a nice editor (1 star), a solid building mode (1 star), a thoroughly ripened Simulation (1 star), a nice graphic (1 Star) and a beautiful and a nice city (1 Star).
Unfortunately, the game lacks, in my view, on a long-term motivation and has a few rough edges (- 1/2 star)
What's more, it has the usual weaknesses that brings every EA game itself. So there appears to be no more patches without separately to install EA Download Manager with its own license agreement.
It attempts to spy on one side and difficult or impossible to resell. etc. That's why I prefer the product from 1 star.

As a result I came to 3 1/2 star by product
and 4 1/2 for the game.
Because the line stars from Amazon, I like the vote to justice.

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