Here’s a review from Wofitz, one of the lucky players who was able to score a chance to play The Sims 3 a month early last week. They’ve published what they had to say over at the Garden of Shadows forum.
To me playing sims 3 seemed a little bit different to sims 2. If you’re looking at it from the basic sim needs stand point at least, the sims needs don’t have the same kind of weight they do in sims 3. They still factor their mood however it’s now been expanded so, so much more. Their environment, work, people around them, what they’ve just done, their physical state effects their mood A LOT more. Such as sitting on a comfy chair gives them a boost, a dirty toilet gives them a minus (of the ones I played, I assume if they have dirty traits they wouldn’t care), leaving out a soiled dish, going to the spa and when my sim was pregnant she had a ‘pregnancy glow’ which boosted her mood. Mood boosts usually last a few sim hours from what I saw. Going to the spa gave her a boost, having a kid. It told you when she felt nauseous and I thought that was really awesome. A picture of this can be seen here That is something I loved about it. It did bring a different kind of play to it because it’s a lot less “Oh they need to wee, need to eat, need to sleep” you know? They interact with their environment a lot more. My fave was probably when she got a new car and one of the mood boosts was the ‘new car smell’ which she liked. Oh, she also had back ache when she was pregnant.
When the sims interact you can see how they think about each other in the top corner. There’s some fun interactions though not as many as if you had all the sims 2 exps. Which is a shame. Another down grade.
When at work you can choose how they act which I thuoght was great. Clive got a job at the hospital and I could pick how he’d be there. Hard worker, works enough, slacking off by playing around, that kind of thing.
Skilling seems a little different too. How it sort of…reacts to the work anyway. Rather than ‘you need so many logic points’ it was a row of smilies which got happier for the job the more of that skill you had.
Thanks for all the great news but i have to say, this is the worst and most annoying review i have ever seen, if you ask me! I mean, he/she sounds so mad and annoyed with the game and it seemed like they didn’t like it at all, if you ask me! And anotehr thing, the person would stop saying “If you ask me” after EVERYTHING! lol, i’m sorry, but it seems like the person doesn’t know anythign about The Sims franchise and is oviously not a true fan, if you ask me!! He/she kept on saying S2 and not TS2, the game is called THE Sims! But thanks for the news, lol sorry about complaining! 😀
It’s all right. While I love the Sims franchise, sometimes those with different views should be posted as well 🙂 Have to look both sides on the matter in my opinion. And I can’t really fault them on their writing skills, I have no room to talk! 😛
I decided not to read beyond the excerpt on this site because I want to preserve my own adventure learning things in the game, and not have it tainted by what another person thinks, which sometimes has spoiled things a bit for me.