Come on Prima, what gives? Your books have been pretty good. The Sims and the beginning of The Sims 2 series had fat, thick Prima Guides. Then during the end of The Sims 2 lifespan, they switched to the normal tall and skinny style. Spore Galactic Adventures showed off a new style of a pocket-sized guide…and you quickly changed back to the tall and skinny guides once again for The Sims 3 and World Adventures. Now you want to throw a new style out there with metal binders? This doesn’t look pleasing at all!
Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. In The Sims 3 Ambitions, players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. Additionally, players will be able to change the look and feel of their town by becoming an architect and directly affecting the neighborhood around them leveraging Build and Buy mode. The stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbours in fashionable or catastrophic ways. For the first time, players will be in charge of how their Sims career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future of a Sims success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.
- Every career path explored! Find out what your Sims can do and how they should do it.
- Details on the tasks your Sims will need to undertake to be a success in their chosen field.
- New build tools explained to make your town over to your exact liking.
- This guide will be part of the Essential Guide series. Printed in a smaller trim size and spiral bound. The ease of use of the spiral binding helps keep players at their place while playing.
Thanks to InfiniteSims for reporting this!
I actually like their reasoning behind the spiral binding. It can be a pain sometimes with a new guide to keep it open to the page you want without folding the binding.
Yeah this is actually a pretty smart idea
I have no objection to spiral binding per se… but I agree with Jud, that book looks pretty darn thin.
In all of the Sims 2 guides, there was a significant amount of information you wouldn’t have been able to get except through the guide… detailed formulas that completely spelled out all the underlying game mechanics. Since the Sims 3 base game, the info in the guide is pretty much what anybody with half a brain could figure out just by playing. The under-the-hood stuff is gone.
Do we REALLY need a walkthrough to decorating a living room? :/
So yeah. I’m not buying em any more either.
I dont like it, it makes it more easier for older Simmers that have children to wreck them. What if the kids got into Mummy’s and Daddy’s new spiral binded Ambitions booklet and decided to go rip rip! Easier to rip!
I think the idea is better for use when gaming.
Good job pretty much anything you need to know about a game is up online now, negating the use for these books, or th easily-torn-out pages might make me nervous!
I agree with Sri Kandi. The original Sims 2 and OFB books (the two guides I had) had reams of information at a kind of ‘insider’ level. The Sims 3 one, whilst not BADLY written, is kind of more like an advisory blog.
Not that I have anything against advisory blogs. 😛 *pats SimPrograms.com affectionately*
I too don’t plan on buying this guide – from what I’ve read from people who already bought it, it sounds like a rip-off to me… I’m sad because I used to love the Sims Prima Guides and I have them all since The Sims 2… 🙁
I even bought the books and the e-guides for The Sims 3, but I don’t think I’ll keep doing that anymore.