Mansion in the suburbs, wardrobe to die for, job as a famous movie star and a hobbie as a tattoo artist. Choices to vacate to Paris, China or Egypt. I have my collection of ancient relics from distant lands. I am a professional artist, writer, sculptor and inventor. I'm young, rich, thin, and have my own...unicorn???? Damn. Knew it was too good to be true.
Now that my computer self is more attractive, successful and talented then me I wallow in self pity, count my losses, review my wasted time and retreat into bed with a tub of Ben and Jerry's looking into a mirror shouting 'you suck'....We'll we've all been there after a game of...
Yes, that's right. The Sims had to come up in my reviews somewhere. This game is the bane of my life. Many an hour I have spent in front of my screen working out the easiest way to give my Sim the best life she could possibly have when ironically I should have been doing that in my actual life. Instead I make minimum wage, living in shared accommodation while my avatar self is living in a three story house as evil ruler of the world. Nice.
Now what makes Sims 3 stand out from its pre-assessor's is the sheer vastness of free will you have. No more load screens just to walk to the shops or dodgy taxi cut scenes. Now you just walk out the door and into town without so much as a 'screen loading' cog. You have a lot more choice in personality, style, jobs, which makes our Sims scarily realistic. OK I'm getting a head so let me start back at the Sim making process.
When making a Sim in the previous games you could modify the face and weight but only to a certain limit. Now you have a lot more subtle changes and the body also has muscle definition and boob size...FREAKING BOOB SIZE. At last the bumpy, big bum and boob combo I've been waiting for.
There is a large collection of clothes and accessories but I always seem to go for the 'Egyptian Pirate' look. I know, so much choice and I always pick the same thing. True to life I'd say.
There I am. I know, sickening how much better she looks. Oh well. My choice I guess. I could have made her a poor, overweight narcissist.
The Sims personality's have also gotten more complex. I have to say, even though I'm not the tidiest of people I always make my Sim 'neat' so when you click on her, it will come up with 'clean house' and she will do everything that needs to be done. Sorted. I also always feel guilty if I make her perfect because let's face it, I'm really not, so I give her my biggest downfall. Clumsiness. (I'm sure people who know me are now nodding their heads). Giving the Sim a fault or two just makes them more human and more interesting for the player. Maybe next time I'll go further and make her shy, or lonely or a loser (*wipes a truth telling tear)
I have also installed Sims 3 Pets and though I haven't played it long I can tell you I absolutely freaking love my cats. Compared to the Sims 2 Pets they have a lot more personality and they have a bigger free will to hunt, play and be a cutey wooty smeegy smoogy woochy woo.............i love cats......
I have yet to own any other pet as I have had to reinstall this bastard several times but if the cats are anything to go by, the rest will be just as rewarding.
Something the creators caught onto was the amount of Sim deaths that were encountered. They must have because in Sims you couldn't get out of the pool unless you had stairs resulting in inevitable drowning and now our Sims are jumping out of the pool like bloody athletes. It's OK. Just means we have to work harder with our plotting.
Over the years EA have wowed fans with the ever changing, expanding and improving of the game, but I have to admit the more realistic it gets, the harder it is too keep up with everything. There is so much to do and I don't want to miss out on anything but after a while you forget what you need to do and ultimately get bored of the game. It goes into a dark cupboard or on a dusty shelf for a couple of months and then you say 'I feel to play the Sims'. You have to get every box you own, reinstall them, download anything you bought from the on line store and then start the whole thing again until the Sims 4 comes out and the Sims 3 goes away with the Sims and The Sims 2 taking up more of your much needed storage. Its a great game.
Overall, I do like this game. Its fun and lets your imagination run free. But be sure to have a spare few hours for it. It's taken me a whole day just to build the house I so desired. Goth glam (with a hint of lavender)
I could write so so SO much more but I would end up spending my whole night writing about it, then dreaming about it and ultimately killing myself. Happy days.
I give this game a Gothic Salute. Now go children. Your oh so much better future awaits...or you could just trap them in a room and let them starve to death. Players choice >^^<
