The Sims 3 review: It Sucks 65

I was so disappointed when I got the game for my PS3. It's so, so slow and has barely any clothing choices or hair choices. All the people looked fat, and there was no changing the nose or eyes or mouth to the perfect thing. There weren't many choices of homes that didn't cost more than five times your money... I got it and was so happy to play it, now I don't even touch the disk. I would recommend Sims 4, as I haven't played it, but it has so many clothing choices, face choices, color choices, house choices, and it makes your sims exactly how you want them to look! I watch lots of Youtube on my time, so I'd know. Thank you for saying this. I hope The Sims Company steps up their game. Goodbye, and thanks!
- Loki

I agree with all the crashing, I put my game in and it just pops out over and over and I just have to keep pressing it back in. Buy the sims 2 its way better. I dont have it but I can already tell.

I've only seen a few videos of Sims 3 on YouTube. It didn't look that fun or interesting to me so I wasn't going to buy it anyway. I decided to see what other people who played the game thought about it, and I'm not surprised. What really sucks is I let my friend borrow all my Sims 2 games, and guess what? She lost them all. I can't even play Sims at all anymore, so I'm pretty sad lol.

I'm surprised I haven't seen EA games on watchdog or a similar programme. THE GAME SUCKS, don't waste your money. The concept is great, more interactive, sims not constrained to the house etc. etc., but there are so many bugs that should have been ironed out before it went on sale. EA games must be aware of them so why aren't they doing anything about it? Because they're still selling and still making money. Children turning into aliens, (too long to go into here) slow loading, freezing, crashing, losing all saved games and having to restart. When you first start playing you think WOW this is such an imprivement on Sims 2, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security. The more you play the more buggy the game gets, until it either crashes and loses all your advancement, or you are forced to reinstall because the game has become unplayable. it's a great idea so please sort it out EA games, you've made enough money from us.

Anyone who can appreciate this game has clearly never played the previous two titles otherwise they would know what they are missing out on. I mean custom content was the main thing in the Sims 2 and now you have to buy it and it's illegal to make it! Sims in the Sims 3 look terrible, ok they look better than they ever did in CAS but once you get them out of studio lighting into world lighting they look like a badly composited architechtural rendering and are about as exciting as a date with a corpse.
Even Simlish sounds alot worse and basically everything seems rushed particularly in-game patterns and textures, which are by the way revolting :(
To finish off: the whole idea of a Sims game is control. In the Sims 2 you can use SimCity4 to make your own neighbourhood, populate it with any type of lots you want, make great looking sims, build restaurants, bars, nightclubs and have your sims hang out in them, create your own skintones and textures for walls and floors and control nearly every aspect of the game. Flip the coin and you have the Sims3 where the only good idea was to have a seamless neighbourhood with no loading times, what good is that if the rest of the game sucks ###.
EA you have ruined the franchise because to you money is more important than the fanbase.

I agree with all you guys. I f***ing hate this piece of ###. i was so excited when i bought this game, since i loved playing the sims 2. i thought it would be worth buying the sims 3 for £40. I started playing it and the speed was as slow as f*** even though my pc is only two years old, apparently i had to buy this hi-tech video card which i didn't think was right to pay for because i've spent enough on the game! I downloaded a speed patch for the game which made it a little faster but only to the pace of a snail. Oh yeah, by the way, i actually prefer the sims 2 graphics than this. And when it finally loads up on create a sim there are LESS hairstyles than the default sims 2 ones and most of them are stupid. Why the hell do they still look obese when you can't make the sims any skinnier? The skin texture is too flat so they look like wax candles. In fact, create a sim is probably the only part i like in the game because it loads the fastest. OH GOD THIS IS THE WORST PART when i started playing it with my new sims, the game stopped every movement for 1 minute (I'm not kidding) and i just wasn't even worth playing! AND WHY THE F*** CAN'T I BUILD MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD like in the sims 2? Instead we have to buy them? We also can only just seem to play one family, ridiculous. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but when i applied my sim for a job, the game would freeze 100% all the F****** TIME!

WHAT A F****** LET DOWN EA. A WASTE OF MONEY. i just play my sims 2 instead!

Sims 3 still sucks ###. I tried to give it some time and bought expansion packs, but alas, it just sucks. It's boring, the sims are creepy, there's no real community feeling in the town because of all the freaking rabbit holes and the game won't let play more than one sim at a time without losing everything when switching households. It sucks.

My machine is fine and the game runs well enough, I'm computer literate enough to deal with bugs without letting it ruin my game play, so none of the usual arguements apply. I'm talking pure gameplay. Sucks. Hard.

If you haven't bought it, don't - play sims 2 (or anything else, for that matter). Save your money. Tic Tac Toe with a pencil and paper is more fun than this load of crap game. Unless you're 10 years old and like playing games that spoon feed lame scenarios for your pretend, adult life... in which case, this may be the game for you.

I'm sorry to contradict anyone but i've had Sims3 for a while now and i think it's pretty fun...
The reason i think it loads so slow is because it's so detailed.
I've noticed most people are dwelling on the negatives but the things you talking about isn't really important to me. You said you deleted everything on you computer? Well no affiance but that was a stupid idea. The problem could still be your computer. Maybe you've bought crappy a brad or something because it worked fine on my computer...
You computer might have gotten a virus by some of the modifications but other wise i think you being a bit ridiculous.

You took the words out of my mouth. If I'm not screaming, pulling my hair out, about to throw my laptop out the window, then I'm waiting for the thing to f****** load. Where do I BEGIN with all the problems!?!?!?

Ok, well, lets just say you go to the Sim's store and spend $100 (Thank goodness I only spent $10!) on Sim (Never mind- It doesn't even deserve a capital letter!) Points. So, blah blah blah you buy your stuff. Hit the download button. OH NO! It's not in the launcher! Wait 10 minutes of being pissed. There it is! Wait- theres an error. You can't put it in your game. What a shame! We'll just give you costumor support in maybe 4 hours if you want 'Live Chat' or 24 hours for an e-mail that doesn't help you with your prblems.

Ah... So, you FINALLY got some stuff from the exchange! Free cool things! Wait... why is there nakedness in my options! Why is there a naked sim walking down the street! The d*** excange downloaded pervert ugly items on my computer. Yay!

Finally, (I'm only saying three things) I'm playing on my laptop. Next thing i know, my computer makes a fart noise (Yes, really) and the screen turns pink! Thanks, sims. I love the background! Wait. Oh, i have to shut it off to get any use out of my computer- if it doesn't give me a virus first.

You can see why so many people LOVE sims. >:(

I love the game sims 3 but the only problem is that there are too many glitches and crashes. Is there a way that when my sims 3 stops working for some strange reason i can get it back to normal without restaring the whole game? I have restarted the game for about 4 times now because of glitches and freezing. The game is great but I just am tired of restarting it over and over again! If you know a solution to this problem please help.

I HATE the game completely. I hope the EA producers of this game die. They got us waiting for all this time, and THIS CRAP?!? Oh, yeah lets stare at a building for two minutes while my sims are inside. Booooringgg... EA ripped us off, and the design of sims suck. Looks like cartoons. I reinstalled sims 2 and sims 2 EP's to my computer, and now sims 3 sits on my junk shelf. Never playing it again.

Finaly, someone else who feel the same way about this mess. I was so looking forward for the Sims 3. So I bought it. The town looked ok at first glanse, so I went on to make a sim, I got so angry... even if the sims2 sim looked a bit like a barbiedoll, this sim looked like a boblehead figure, the proportions were all wrong, there was no balance in the body compared with the head. I tried making the sim very skinny, wich only made it look worse, so I tried making her bigger, only when she was realy fat, the head fit the body.
So the hair... I HATE the hair in sims 3, not just few options, but the ones who are there looks terrible, and the hair had no movement or animation like in Sims 2, I loved that effect, made it look more real.
I made a smal family, moved them into a small home and sent them to town. I wanted to see how the stores worked now, only to find out that ''wait a minute... you can't go in, but look at this beautiful wall''

Still I wanted to give the game a chanse, the gameplay was not so bad, so been playing for a while, and for my birthday I got the sims 3 adventures. And because of a bug, my intire family tree was F***t, only showing one parent or something.

And the store, seriously, it had to be the idea of some drug sniffing a** hole. What was so wrong about people making their own clothes and hairstyles?! The stuff in the store are crap too.
The stuff I downloaded for sims 2 was amazing. Now you can't do that without alot of reprograming and file downloades. I tried to do it, but failed bigtime:P

I can't say how much I miss Sims 2, so I will start playing that again. And hopefully EA will do something about this mess they made.

I have been playing for a few months, and i admit for awhile i was addicted and looked forward to playing everyday. Now i just hate it. after twomonths of playing my babies wont turn to toddlers my toddlers wont turn to children my children wont turn to teenagers and my teenagers wont turn to young adults. This is very irratating because the kids take way tooooooooooooooooooooo long to age on their own. I was creating family generations this way, now its just to long and drawn out. Never want to play again. I also dont like how my sims cant meet the other sims i created since the family's are in their own town. Well everybody else in my family will get a chance to use the computer now im'a start back painting for entertainment.

I totally agree: I have 4gigs of ram, a nvidia gt 240 1gb videocard, an AMD athlon II x64 620 processor but the game is f***ing slow and the terrain textures didn't load.

I have to agree. The idea behind the sims 3 is great. But with all the bugs, glitches, the "sensitivity" of the game.. It's more of a headache then a good time. I meet all of the requirements actually go beyond and my graphics is a nvidia geforce gtx 260- so I'm ok in those departments. But I've had inivisible towns people, sims freezing, game shutting itself off, error code 16, blurry toxic looking grass, can't excavate in foreign lands, saving that just won't stop, sold stuff in a store and then no longer had any options with it.. And the list goes on and on. I literally have a migraine after a weekend of playing this game! I have to save constantly so I don't lose hours of work, and sometimes a regular save isn't successful. I mean it's been over a year I believe and 2 major exp's into the game and STILL ALL THESE PROBLEMS AND plus new ones with the new exp's!? Come on EA! GET IT TOGETHER ALREADY! I've called and chatted with EA customer service and mostly just a waste of my time!

I am a simfanatic and I will say that they truly ruined the gameplay. Part of the allure of the sims is that you can have several families in a neighborhood and you can individually control all of them. I was super stoked about the Sims 3 until I realized that the entire neighborhood ages with gameplay and it's a feature that you CANNOT turn off. If you like the sims 1 &2 for the gameplay...this is NOT the game for you.

WOW... cant believe i bought this damn game! Graphics Horrible, The people still look fat after u bring the meter all the way down. I just bought the game yesterday and after the first ten minutes had to take it out. Havnt even gotten a feel for the game and u know what i dont want to.I thought that creaters are supposed to make games bettter. What the hell happend?Game is going back to the store if i cant take it back then off to game stop... Sim 2 is way better folk stick with it. I love my sims 2...SOOO ANGRY!

It has to be computer thats stuffing up the game because I play the sims 3 all the time and none of this happens.

Omg! I Totally Agree I Went And Bought The Sims 3 On My Birthdaii This Year Im Ah Big Fan Of The Sims I Have Every Single Expansion Pack And Add On I Waisted £35 On Ah Load Of Sh**! ImSo Dissapointed In The Sims3 It Dose Nothing Buht Lag! Its Like The Sim1 Is Ouht Agen I Feel Real Bad For Askin For Something That Expensive When Its Pooh! Refund Please!

I like a lot of the new features with Sims 3, including the way you can travel downtown or anywhere in real time. I also like the design features which enable you to use different patterns, colors, ect. on objects and clothing, and the subtle movement of the plants and bushes. Nice touch. The views of the neighborhood are awesome, and the wider range of personality traits are definitely a plus. I HATE the fact that every patch they come out with SCREWS the game up. It's also lame that EA wants to charge players for all the custom content, like the game isn't expensive enough. EA just couldn't stand it that creators from the community were making custom content for free. They had to cut in on that market and make sure players pay handsomely for their custom content. It used to be they would just come out with Stuff Packs and you could go buy the latest from the store. The prices for the objects at The Store online are way too expensive compared to buying a stuff pack at your local store. EA knows that we players HATE not having the objects from the EA store because custom content that is rendered by other players cannot be downloaded or installed unless you have the original object from the store online. The latest patch has a feature to prevent people from downloading or installing Store items they haven't purchased, but it also prevents you from installing Store items you DID buy because it's so glitchy. Patterns from the Sims Resource won't install, so if you have a subscription to TSR, you are unable to install content you paid for into the game. World Adventures is a mess. The patches from that game causes crashes and families to disappear. EA is always "working on " solving the problems THEY create with each patch. It just gets worse and worse with each new patch or EP. One more thing, since they went so far as to have travel in real time, with the ability to meet and talk to other Sims along the way, WHY did they create rabbit holes for the businesses and workplaces? WHY?
The Sims2 had much better ambient lighting, and is more aesthetically pleasing to the eye in many ways than the Sims3.
I loved the Sims 2 and I am seriously considering reinstalling it so I can finally have fun with the Sims again.

ARE YOU LISTENING EA?

I totally AGREE ! Thank the lord that i didn't but the game and simply waited for my friend to torrent the game. what a f**ckn DISASTER of a game. like WTF !? Couldn't EA at least warn us that this would be a huge letdown. OH NO they wouldn't because they only care about the money and not the hardcore fans ! I was sooo excited to play the game but as soon as i got to the neighborhood page i had problems. the graphics were ghastly but dismissing the terrible graphics the characters were even more horrific. Come on? Seriously!? I thought the sims characters would look much better than the sims 2. WOW i was soooo wrong. They look like 100 times worse. What's up with that? Also what the f**k is the point in having hospitals and schools and buildings IF YOU CAN'T EVEN INTERACT OR SEE THEM ! Absolutely pointless!
Me and my friend decided not wasting our time exploring the rest of this piss hole f**ked up game
Im deeply devoted in playing sims 2 but sims 3 is wasted ### and a load of BS

Bye Bye EA...
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TOTAL DISAGREE! i love my sims game! and i think that you hate is so much is because your computer is not good enough for this freaking awsome game... my computer is not the best but hey i can play flawlessly and high settings...

and about the bugs...their is something called patches that you can download FREE and it will fix everything and your game experience will be awsoome...

PS: i only spent $70 dollars with the game

had a coupon for the game total for game $37

and a new graphics card that rocks the hell out of a game

Good Things in Sims 3:

- Personality traits. I like these. They add a flare to the individual sims which the sims 2 never quite managed in terms of social interactions, behavior, etc. and are really the reason I was interested in buying the game to begin with.

- Being able to zoom out from your sim's lot and click on other houses or destinations to send them to is more fun than having to load individual lots every time they go somewhere.

- The design tool is a fun idea - a bit like the Bodyshop, only in-game.

- Sim faces are less likely to look like the Swamp Thing than they are in the Sims 2 as a result of radically different-looking parents.

- There actually are buildings like the school, hospital, work locations, etc. now, so you know where your sim is going every day.

- You can put most objects on diagonal angles now. I was actually quite pleased about that. Also, I like the new ghosts, although I am somewhat bummed that the sims finally figured out how to climb out of a pool without a ladder now. :(

Downsides:

- The new 'wants' system no longer has any 'fears', and while the moodlets (environmental or circumstantial factors which effect a sim's mood, like being in a nice room or smelling something awful) are interesting, I do miss the fear-factor.

- Despite the whole 'seamless' neighbourhood claims of the game, the customization options and general playability is waaay down. In Sims 2 you could essentially make your own neighbourhood from scratch if you wanted to. In Sims 3 you can't design, say, community lots, and empty lots are fixed locations of a set size, so you can't choose if you'd like to have a row of smaller houses or a big mansion on any given road. On top of that, the game punishes you for playing with different families in the same neighbourhood - so you essentially need to have a neighbourhood per family, which kills a lot of the fun. While the global aging/growing/living feature is cool in its own way, too, I think it needs to involve the player a little more. Like getting messages saying when someone in the neighbourhood had gotten married, had a kid, or had a birthday, or choosing to have *some* families grow on their own while others stay just as you left them would be nice.

- Pumpkin head. Every sim in the Sims 3 has a round pumpkin head, which is probably part of the reason why the various faces mesh together better, but it's not a very diverse look, either. I feel like I'm playing with really bizarre Cabbage Patch Dolls.

- The genetics. Sims 2 had an amazing system for sims to pass on their genes to their offspring, with kids getting things like their granparent's hair and their mother's eyes and their father's nose. Now the new system for generations is very limiting and boring, taking away a lot of the excitement of letting your sims reproduce.

- The design tool is fun, but combined with the Sims online store it seems to have conspired to ensure that the game comes with very little actual content, like furniture, wallpaper, carpets, etc. You can make your own, but the process takes quite a while and can be exhausting.

- Saves. Since the game doesn't load individual lots in the way of its predecessors what with it's seamless neighbourhood and all, auto-saving almost never happens, which means that if the game crashes or freezes or glitches you can lose alllll of your work. And believe me, it *does* feel like 'work', not 'crazy fun times'.

- Despite introducing such new and interesting buildings as City Hall, the hospital, the school, and such, don't expect to actually go inside of these places. Even buildings that would *normally* let you in, at least by the standards of previous games (like stores and restaurants) won't, with the exceptions being gyms and libraries. Your sim can visit another sim's house, though - which is kind of fun, but also kind of dull, since there isn't much to do once you're in there.

- Did anyone feel less like they were playing the sequel to the Sims 2 than a 'My Sims' game without a storyline?

- Sims 1&2 definitely had a sense of humor. Guys could get impregnated via alien abduction, little old ladies would beat you over the head for kissing in public, the little career-blurbs were actually *funny* - Sims 3 tries, but it feels like the jokes are either stale, or whoever is telling them never understood what made them funny to begin with. The sense of whimsy is dead, replaced by a pale imitation of itself.

- One of the reasons why the Sims 2 was so utterly amazing was because it took what the Sims 1 had and it made it better. It had everything from the first game, and then more. Instead of having to choose a pre-made face, you could make your own face! Instead of just randomly getting any old kid from the options available, now your sims actually had genetics that determined what their offspring looked like! I think one of the reasons why the Sims 3 feels like a step backwards is that whereas the Sims 2 offered *more* control and customization, Sims 3 offers *less*. Yes, you can design your sims' face, but all the faces look the same now anyway. Yes, you can choose what color of bricks to paint on the walls, but half of the time it all looks like blurry nonsense no matter what. Yes, you can go anywhere in the neighbourhood at any time, but it's a premade neighbourhood designed by someone else, not a hand-made suburbia personally tailored to suit your own whims. Sure, you can play with multiple families in the same neighbourhood, but good luck getting it to work out. In the Sims 2 (and I don't mean this in an offensive way) you're the god of your sims' world - you can play with the pre-designed stuff if you want, but you can also take a completely empty neighbourhood and build the whole thing, from restaurants to houses to residents to electronics boutiques and nature parks, from the ground up. In Sims 3 that isn't an option. So while I imagine that's alright for the people who prefer to play in a go-with-the-flow style, for the control-freaks (and let's face it, that would be most sims fans) it's a tremendous let-down.

I don't think EA realizes what's *fun* about the Sims. That's the only way I can explain the Sims 3. Playing it is kind of like a gigantic chore, and for all that it does have a few moments of fun, they're short-lived and don't lead up into the kind of endless playability of its predecessor. A lot of the ideas are good in concept, but they either aren't enough to make up for the downsides or else they're very poorly realized. I *do* get the impression that the entire game is meant to be a base, a platform from which EA can sell more online content and expansion packs, and god isn't that just the most irritating thing ever? As if people haven't proved that they're willing to spend money on the sims! No alterations to the marketing format need be made to turn it into a cash-cow, it already was one! But if people feel gipped, they're not going to spend more money so they can feel *more* gipped. They'll just uninstall Sims 3, wash their hands of it, and go back to playing Sims 2. The Sims 2 in its base-form (without any EPs at all) is fairly simple, but when I first played it looked forward to any new content that came out for it, because the game itself was already lots of fun. So I wasn't looking for expansion packs to 'fix' things so much as add on to the experience. With the Sims 3, it's like they purposefully left stuff out and did a half-assed job so that people would feel obligated to buy the EPs and online content in order to get an actual, completed game.

It's like someone looked at a supermodel and went 'hmm, skinny - long legs - designer clothes - really tall... I know what people like!' and then came back with a giraffe in a dress.

Spent all this money, got the $60 game, got the book, was all set to be amazed and wow'ed, but when I booted it up and saw how bleepin' UGLY the Sims are, I almost couldn't believe my eyes. Where are all the hairstyles? and the clothes look like modeling clay. Nothing has any natural movement to it, at all. My Sims2 characters look soooooooooooooo much better! Here my husband is reading all this hype, telling me how I won't need cc anymore because these Sims will be all hyper-gorgeous, welllllll... BUGLY~! Everything is so drab... it looks like really bad Pixar. Plus, I was hearing how we wouldn't need to micro-manage them as much, but seems to me it's worse now. Still have to direct them to use the bathroom, and it takes them what, two-three times to flush the toilet? and a half hour to take a flippin' bath. And no Seasons! what's up w/that?! No aliens or witches or any of the stuff that made it so much fun. I've got real life here at home, I don't need it in my games. Thank goodness I saved all my Sims 2 stuff, 'cuz it's going back on the computer.

i totally f**kin agree with you! im soo dispointed! i deleted sims 2 off my computer, with most of the expansion packs & loads of downloads to install the sims 3 cos i fort it was goin to be great, what a f**kin let down! as soon as i start to play it, its total f**kin bollocks! so slow and the characters are just atrocious, sims 2 characters are sooooo much better. & my computer is new with up to date graphic cards & ###, its still aload of horse ###!

The Sims 3, EA's Biggest Let-Down
As many people anticipated the Sims 3's original release date, they were let down and enraged by this sudden change. EA claimed they delayed the release SUPPOSEDLY in order to fix bugs within the program. So, people waited until the game was finally released. Game reviews continued raving of how this was an amazing game in the SIMS trilogy. EA reps showed videos of how easy and grand the new SIMS 3 tools would be. Overall it was portrayed as an amazing game. When it finally came out people rushed into the stores to buy normal game or the COLLECTOR'S EDITION; spending $50 - $100. Patrons rushed home to install the new game on their computers and finally let the game begin. What did they think? To put it frankly...
IT SUCKED!

The let down was tremendous and spontaneous. People could not believe what had just happened. The many supporting statements toward THE SIMS 3 were doubted and many game informers’ reliability came into question.

Granted, the installation process was quick and simple; using one disc instead of 4, however, the game was slow to load up and built up frustration within the player. As people finally reached the neighborhood menu, they saw that the options were very similar to the less popular SIMS. The SIMS 3 patrons soon learned the basic options of the neighborhood and created their characters so they proceeded onto CREATE A SIM.

The sims looked terrible, as though they were plump, very round, and fleshy. The eyes looked yellow and as unattractive as the pre- installed clothes. The face changing options are far more superior to those of its predecessor’s but that could not account for these hideous things. At this, some people would have wanted to return the so called “amazing detail of the sims” but others bravely ventured on to explore this game. Finally, as players completed their sims, they uploaded them into the neighborhood. At this point, if I were to save a custom hair or eye color, my computer would have crashed.

The ability to choose which house your sim could live in was relatively similar to that of the SIMS 2. With a couple of clicks and mouse scrolls, the house of your new sim was entered after the long wait for it to load. As the screen changed to that of your sim and its house, there were only plain green floors, your extremely pixilated sim, and those disgusting yellow eyes in the monitor of your computer. Slowly but surely, more features of this new world became apparent. Unfortunately, everything from the grass to the wall paint was very untextured and bland. The sims still looked as horrible as ever accompanied by a boring house. So what would any avid house designer do, give their new home a remodel.

As the BUILD/BUY mode loaded, wannabe architects anticipated what they would be in store for. The many options appeared and it was apparent that there was almost no change compared to the adored SIMS 2 and the terrible SIMS 3 except the hideous counterpart was more confusing. The wall textures were boring and extremely similar to each other with very little variation. The carpet, likewise, looked like whicker furniture spray painted various colors. As the camera angled closer to the floor, only a certain area showed the horrendous detail of the carpet while it abruptly cut to a blurry background. No matter what, nothing could be done to make their house look at least decent.

Frustrated and confused, many players persisted on to further explore this game’s features and were greeted with disappointment.

It took forever for the neighborhood to load its schools and offices to the blurry detail of the rest of the game. Say you were to enter the government building. Your sim would disappear into its doors while you were left waiting outside for a menu to pop up. You could not enter into the building but could zoom your camera inside of it and then see only the building’s foundation as if the rest of it were invisible. If a patient player would dare to think, “Oh well, I couldn’t enter this kind of building before but at least I can see the interior of a bookstore”, they would be wrong. Any community lot with a building could not be entered and was basically just for show.

If a person were to dig deep into themselves to find the patients to play this game, they would try to bear through the deep hole that was called the SIMS 3. Say they wanted to create a new sim in a new family for their original sim to interact with, they would discover they could not. To make it simple, it was basically just a crappy upgrade to the SIMS. Each new family was basically only a new game completely separate of others.

Finally, if some odd person were to have bought this game solely for the purpose of creating magnificent homes, they would immediately shoot themselves in the face. Only the pre- existing lots could be change and no new lots could be added. You were basically confined to your home, opposite of this game’s previous claim to fame, a “seamless neighborhood”. It would be too much work having to delete the previous house in order to make your new one. On top of that, the tools were boring and just as hard to use. The graphics sucked which is very odd to me because of how many people’s computers crashed due to “overload”.

I however must admit that the color chooser function and the few customizing tools were very fun but it could nowhere near as make up for the rest of this terrible game. I have left out many things in this report and apologize for doing so. I have a life that I would rather spend elsewhere but I feel it would be better if I just kept one person from ruining their money on this “game”.

This game not only tarnished but melted the reputation that was held by the SIMS. Thank you for bearing through this depressing report and arming yourselves with knowledge of the SIMS 3 hoax. Sorry for making some hard to understand statements but I hope you found this helpful. If you agree with my claims, post this somewhere in a public place in order to ward people away from the SIMS 3. I have given enough of my life to “give it a chance”. Ultimately...

EA, WHAT HAPPENED?
-Geoffboyardee

I too was a true Sims fan until this mess of a game came out. I would take off from work everytime an expansion pack came out. I'm soo pissed because you can't even go in some places especially the hospital how cool would that have been in a delivery room man I'm pissed you can't even go into work and see yourself at work. I thought expansion or new releases were supposed to be better than the orignal or at least more advanced I want a freaggin refund!

Hey what up?I'm new to sims 3 and i was soooooooooooo excited about it cause sims 2 delux was awsome so i thought it would be 10 times beter!Come on one school?omg thats f***ing crazy!WTF you cant even see if you go in a nother building u cant see what if there cheeting?Its crazy!It freezes 24/7 so if you do something important and it will freeze and u lose everything!No stores, no mall, no pet shop no nothuing i mean come on this is saposed to resembel life! life without a mall or eny store if like and ocean with no water!If u agree with me please email me and well all talk aboiut all the crapy stuff in sims 3 and well make a list and send it to them and tell them this is what you got a change for sims 4 or else well go on world wide strick and theyll go bankruped so if u agree send me an e-mail @ petlover_love@hotmail.comor e-mail mmy friend @ emilie.lada@hot mail.com. we can make a diffrence! so come and help!;)

I also feel like the game was a setback from the sims 2. there are just so many dumb little details, the sims 2 had that the sims 3 lacks; and the sims 3 is a ###ing sequel! not a prequel. It should have everything the sims 2 had AND THEN SOME. Thats why when the sims 2 came out it was so great. You were getting all new features, and virtually nothing from the sims 1 was left out of the new game. And the new features have the ### programing I think I've ever seen. Story progression? Are you ###ing kidding me. Basicly you have to stick with one freakin family and when you move a kid out expecting him to go on and live a life, (which story progression entitles) think again. You'll just get a freakin phone call later on saying he died, jobless and loveless. Story progression was like the only major feature that sold me the game, and it sucks. Plus they hardly give us any ###in items- they want us to PAY MORE MONEY for items. the ###ING GREEDY ###. the game is fifty plus, expanison packs thirty- there getting enough money. God, and I thought the stuff packs on the sims 2 pissed me off, this ### really takes the take. I mean, the game was designed great in some aspects, but in most HORRIBLE. YOU CAN'T EVEN STOP THE CARPOOL FROM COMING WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR OWN CAR FOR WORK/SCHOOL. WHAT THE ### IS THAT?!? Just an example of a small detail even a three year old would have thought to program into the game. And do they fix it in patches? Nope.

The game has alot of good qualities, but I thuoght that they were going to make this game better than the sims 2 and 1 and all that. The only thing they fixed was basically the Create-A-Sim, which is very cool, but I don't like the fact that when you're giving the child boys a sports otfit, they get one but the girls don't... I mean, wtf? Girls can be just as athletic as boys. We can't see inside the buildings, can only have one school where both preschoolers and highschoolers have to mingle(I tried to make a school but the only thing I could do was make the kids have art classes!) What happened to a limo and fancy dress for prom? The birthdays and weddings suck, because there is no wedding shower(presents and nervous breakdowns), no birthday presents, no baby shower(I mean common...those could be fun!...especially if right in the middle there was something dramatic happening) and you can't even see the gender of the baby at the hospital! That sucks. And what about animals? Farms and horses? More job opertunities! And certainly more recipes. I can't stand cheese steak or whatever all the time. Can't EA have, like, had kids test this F#@$ thing before releasing it? What about winter and spring? Throwing snowballs and messing up your parents leaf piles, throwing paper airplanes at the teacher in class. They'd better have a darned good sims 4 or i'm so quitting buying any form of EA game and will teach my children and their children how these ppl f*&^ up bad. Give me your opinion, and email me emilie.lada@hotmail.com tks!

I was really upset when I bought the sims3 there was sooo much hype sorrounding it and I thought ya know what since sims 2 is a pretty good I'll go ahead and spend £40 (that's $63.62) to buy sims3. And you know what? It's such a [censored] game! Granted you can see your neighbourhood from your house *oh which btw with the Sims 2 there's an expansion pack that allows you to have this very feature.*

Sims 3 you can walk to town, walk to school, work, your friends etc and not be confined to lots but that's about it! And while we're on the subject since the people at EA Games are a smart creative bunch of tech savvy game developers, you would have thought they could have brought this very feature out on an expansion pack for sims 2. Even if the whole CD was dedicated to this one feature alone, I'm pretty sure it would have been MORE than possible, considering they've bought us pets, bon voyage, university and apartment life.

I'm pretty disappointed with the character too! They are absolutely naff -they all have that same round podgy face no matter how much you tweak their faces. They all look the bloody same.

Sims 2 had the added bonus of custom content that can make your characters so believable and life like it's truly amazing. Have you tried using Sims 3 custom content ? Rubbish absolute Rubbish!

demon9675 was absolutely right play the sims 3 and it is a major step BACKWARDS.

In all I'm very disappointed I've paid £40 for crap and what hurts even more is that with that money I would have gladly buy all the expansion packs for sims 2! Frankly I'm so pissed I don't give a shi* about there expansion packs for sims 3! Frankly they should discontinue or do some serious changes to sims 3 - and we buyers who have already bought this naff game should not have to PAY for that upgrade.. But that's a completely new rant.. For a new day...

I'm so disappointed in this game, the whole idea of it was cool but the graphics on the sims 2 were much better than these on 3, I cant believe they screw it all up!

Agree. In addition to paying a whopping $50 for a game that did not work, EA customer service was a joke! The website is a joke- how do you find anything on that site? If you ask a question through the website as opposed to using the customer service number (it's so obscure, I don't even remember how I stumbled upon it...), good luck...who knows when a rep will respond...and when they DO respond, the response is worthless...
SAVE your money- do not buy this game and ESPECIALLY do not download this game from the EA games site. You will be given the run-around and your money will NOT be refunded.

I don't like the sims 3 at all and it's not my computer it's the fact that the variety of doing things have been taken away so it just feel boring especially when you can't see into places, shop, and the mood thing is suck a fck'n pain I hate that thing. No one comes over to greet the neighbors like they did in the sims 2. It takes WAY to long to make a friend, too much customizing it's overwhelming. The places you can go are not interactive so what's the point. I don't want no expansion pack I want EA to reimburse me for even giving this game a shot. There's no way the Sims 2 should be better than one that's supposed to me more improved. The sims 3 is more work and a hassle than it is enjoyable.

Oh, first time i got hooked on Sims was after a friend of mine decided to make us in Sims and create our college in it etc, basicly make "us" in sims, after that i downloaded on torrents all Sims 2, and i loved it soo MUCH! And then i heard Sims 3 coming out, and i decided to get a proper copy, thinking "WOOO THIS WILL BE AWESOME GAME" and i play...and i get sad...very very sad...I have custom build pc...4gb ram, 1gb Ati Video card, 1tb hard, well one VERY fast pc...Graphics are okay, i could get nice femaly faces, but males would always have weird chin and face ewwww!

Hate the glitches, hate it freezing and exiting to desktop, hate the hair, the clothes, furniture- it sucks
Dislike the small premade lots, when building house, the roof sometimes disappears on its own.
Constantly shows errors, sometimes doesnt save and makes it impossible to continue from last save point, cause upon saving it just exits and corrupts the save files.

Jeez, EA, for the money you're asking for this game and its future, you've lost majority of your SIMS fans, they will not buy the next game releases, and i wont either, i'll just consult my frindly lovely web pages where i'll download all games and expansions that i want.

In 6 years, you could have made something more incredible, something that would need full 2gb ram, and at least 516mb Graphics speed etc, but no, you stick to cheap money making!

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!

EA -- YOU SUCK CAUSE THIS ### RELEASE NEARLY MADE ME CRY! I THINK I'LL STICK TO RPG'S LIKE WARCRAFT AND OLD SPELLFORCE, THEY MADE ME HAPPY WITH THEIR GRAPHICS

I was hooked on The Sims 1 and loved it. The Sims 2 was better than I could have anticipated. I loved it and have every expansion. When I first played the Sims 2, I was on it for hours and played it every day for quite some time. I was hooked. I was so excited for The Sims 3 and so far the only thing I like is the unique character traits. That's it. They don't look good. They all look puffy in the face. The game play is not that easy or interesting. I have to wait outside a building for my Sim while they go inside and do stuff in real time? Really? I can only play one family -- that's ridiculous. It's so boring and also dealing with the camera is difficult. I played it for one hour the first day I got it and was bored. I tried to play it a few more times and was not having a good time. Instead of improving upon The Sims 2, it's like they went back to a level 1 game. Why make a Sims 3 where you can do less than the previous game? With The Sims 2 you could do so much more! Now it's like we're back to square one. I uninstalled it and just play The Sims 2 now. Game sites rave about The Sims 3 and I don't get it. Bores me to tears.

This game is awful compared to other versions of The Sims. It is a big waste of money.
I can't even have fun with it. The older versions would keep me entertained for hours. This one bores and frustrates me. I can't tolerate more than 30 minutes before I want to scream!

I absolutely cannot believe I wasted money on this piece of crap game.
I am so disappointed. I think I will uninstall it and sell it on eBay. I'd rather play The Sims 2.