There are even more options for building houses and buying furniture in The Sims 3, and better sorting options for both. The Sims 3 has tons of tools to build out a new home, including eight classes of flooring (carpet, tile, wood, stone, masonry, linoleum, metal, and miscellaneous floor patterns like mosaic tiles) and eight kinds of walls (paint, wallpaper, tile, paneling, masonry, rock & stone, siding, and miscellaneous patterns). The build interface has been rearranged to group items by context using a graphical menu that’s basically a line drawing of a house–mousing your cursor over the roof of the house lets you switch to roofs, while mousing over the trees outside of the house lets you jump to plants and gardening stuff. The build and buy interfaces also now have a powerful new sledgehammer option that lets you erase large groups of items or fixtures in one shot, though you can of course undo your most recent actions as well. Buy mode has also been tweaked to let you sort purchasable items either by the room they would go in or by function. There are also more kid-friendly options this time around, like more play structures and group activities to let you build up larger families.
GameSpot spent some more time to provide us fans a new hands-on preview for The Sims 3! Not only that, but we also get a new video as well 🙂 Check it out!
Hey! Thanks for all the great news! You really area devoted fan!! 😀 This is the best website EVER!! 😀 Umm, idk how to say this and i say it in the nicest way possible, but all of that footage in that video isn’t brand new footage! Most of it is from the Gamespot live demo with Grant, other parts were from trailers and some of it were from the Creators Camp videos made by the people! lol, just thought i would tell ya! 😀
Doh! Unforunately some of my updating is done at work (on my break of course) and I don’t usually watch the videos there, so I was not aware of the old gameplay. Thanks, I’ll chop that piece out 🙂 I don’t know how you fans can remember – there are so many pictures, articles and videos around that I have a hard time keeping up with them all!
The Gamespot article is a bit odd in terms of what it focuses on, IMO. There’s a COMPLETE list of aspiration rewards, and how much each one costs, taking up most of a page… but no mention at all of things like how well the AI works for the sims you aren’t controlling, for instance.
Ah well, I guess the one thing’s easy to report, and the other would be hard 😉