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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  548 reviews
Sales Rank: 162
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: life_simulation_strategy_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.8
MPN: 15390
Model: 15390
UPC: 014633153903
EAN: 0014633153903
ASIN: B00166N6SA
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Seamless, Open NeighborhoodExplore the neighborhood freely. | | • | New Create A Sim Create any Sim you can imagine. | | • | New Realistic PersonalitiesEvery Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality. | | • | New Unlimited CustomizationEveryone can customize everything! | | • | The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. |
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Product Description
Get inspired by the endless creative possibilities and unexpected moments of surprise and mischief in The Sims 3! Customize your Sims' appearances and choose up to five traits to create individual personalities. From the “Romantic” trait or “kleptomaniac” trait to “evil” trait, create millions of unique Sims from the vast amount of personalities. New goal-oriented gameplay enables you to choose which short or long-term objectives you want your Sims to pursue and even determine your Sims' destinies in life. Create and edit your own movies by capturing your gameplay moments or select from a library of clips. Then join The Sims 3 online community where you can show off all of your creations, get free bonus content, hear the latest news, and more!
Amazon.com Product Description
The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true. 
Create like never before.
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New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
View larger. | Key Game Features: - New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
- Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
- New Create a Sim Functionality
- Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
- Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
- New Personality Traits
- Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
- Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
- New Unlimited Customization
- Everyone can customize everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
- Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
- New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
- Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
- Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
- Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
- Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
- Get free bonus content—download Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
- Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
- Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.
System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | | OS: | Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher | | Processor: | Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalent | Intel Core Duo Processor | | RAM: | Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB | 2GB | | Disc Drive: | 8x DVD ROM or faster | 8x DVD ROM or faster | | Hard Drive: | Vista & XP - 8 GB or more | At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. | | Video Card: | 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. | ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. | | Other: | Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower. | * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. |
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 Beware of this game August 7, 2010
T. Chase (Santa Rosa, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this game and I have Vista 7 - at least three times while playing this game I have experienced my character disappearing on my screen but still can see the green diamond above his/her head. Then I would not see the Sims 3 Control Panel as well. I was not able to play my game from then on. Don't buy this guy if you want to have problems - I have had one problem after another with this game. Sims 2 did not have any problems what so ever. Once your game character disappears you have no way of continuing the game and controling your characters. EA needs to fix this issue immediately. I will NEVER buy another Sims game EVER. I have also purchased all the expansion packs and have wasted my money.
 Great but... August 6, 2010
Beanboy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is great but I really wish you could kill other sims. I mean, sort of like the real world. Or make Zombie sims that hunt your family down and then you have to hide and stuff or be eaten. That's just me. I guess the game would be rated M though.
 hard to install July 31, 2010
M. J. Weir
We had a VERY hard time installing this game, and my husband is very good with computers. We even returned the first game we received, thinking it was defective. We contacted EA Games, and their customer service people were NOT helpful at all!!! The problem we had is that the Launcher doesn't work with Windows 7. We finally skipped the launcher, and went into the program and installed it manually. My daughter likes playing the game, but it's a lot of trouble.
 sims 3 July 28, 2010
andree
I LOVE sims 3! it's soo much fun i can hardly keep away from it. I just wish you could play as the other people in the neighbor hoods around you. And there are some pieces of furniture from the last version(like a spiral stair case)that I really miss. And I can't figure out how to get mods for this one. When I search on the sims web-site it seems like you actually have to pay for them which is ridiculous because for the last name I downloaded TONS of mods for it and they were completely free. But other then those things I love it, completely addicting.
Quality and Speed? The Sims 3 July 26, 2010
Although the Sims 3 is a pretty cool game, the graphics and loading time really tamper with the fun. Make sure you have the necessary requirements on your PC or Mac computer before you purchase this game. If you don't, it can result in slow playing and crappy graphics.
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