Positive to be highlighted above all the open neighborhood and the associated elimination of any loading times, once you get started the game. That's a real improvement to the second part, where you had to wait always felt 10 minutes was found to the own Sim arrived about the same community lot and you could continue playing there.
Also fantastic the way that surfaces (texture, material and color) is to be able to make all the furnishings themselves; so you can give a personal touch to his house.
Another new feature that I noticed positively, are the "tasks" which can be meet in order to get bonuses in the various skills. If the Sim has completed about 30 images, he paints pictures much faster. And he usually already can paint very well after so many images, it is fast to paint able many expensive pictures, and you then have the option to terminate his job and only to live by the art.
Improvements there compared to the second part in the "Create your Sim" mode: the creatable faces seem more diverse and the physique of the characters look more realistic. The many new traits are a great idea that was well implemented; not every Sim does the same happy and traits have a strong effect on desires, behavior and skills of the Sims.
The life of the Sims can also be selected by the player; depending on your taste, the player can quickly his life or very, very slowly bring behind. And even if a Sim dies times, it may happen that makes him a close relative to revive as a ghost, then can be played back with the.
Also one or more babies to feed, is no longer as strenuous as in the second part: the adults in the household do it even with three young children still to eat, to sleep, to go to work and occasionally to have some fun.
But unfortunately, there are also aspects of the game that have deteriorated compared with the second part.
Not to be overlooked is the small selection of furniture pieces, some of which are so ugly that you can not save a lot with the change of surface. The same must be said about the hairstyles; In particular, it did not succeed to find more than 4 Mr. acceptable hairstyles.
And at this point it must be mentioned that it is no longer possible on the Internet free of other players with a lot of love and effort designed furniture and clothing (and not just the surface, the shape) download. The only way, nor to come to such content, is the side that EA has set up specifically for this purpose and their contents are of course costs. This is clearly unreasonable and reflects badly on EA. Nobody is asking you to make yourself free content available, but the bitter aftertaste remains, if they forbid the players to offer self-developed clothing or furniture for free. EA takes stake in this way quite a bit of creativity and enthusiasm on the part of the player. This small-minded and greedy approach is the biggest drawback at The Sims 3 for me.
I lack even the painful ability to design a neighborhood itself.
And maybe I'm very special in the coming period, but there is a change that made me really disappointed: What I had with the most fun in the second part, it was the whole city full pack with self-made Sims who I always played alternately and the got to know each other then, married and got children, so at some point there was a city only from Sims that I myself had created, and their descendants. I found it interesting how they visually altered over generations and which characteristics prevailed. Such a game is not possible in The Sims 3; in addition to its active household can unfortunately put no further households into play.
And even if the Expansion Pack "Wild campus years" was very controversial, I liked the possibilities very related to their situation offered (eg more time to work on the skills or the new careers that you could embark upon a study); the more I miss these opportunities in the third part.
Conclusion: Many of the new features are good ideas, which are also well implemented. The game runs through liquid and smooth feel. However, I prefer to play the second part, because there I have more freedom to make the game in all its aspects in accordance with my wishes and pretty and newly equip rooms and Sims, without having previously paid masses of money for it. Four Stars there anyway because there are up to The Sims 2 no life simulation on the market that can absorb it even close with The Sims 3.
