Thank you Anonim for the link to ‘The Sims 3 in Russia‘. Below are two screens from the Wii version of The Sims 3 (update – these screens appear at EA Italy’s website, so they ARE the real deal. See comments for full explanation)
Thank you Anonim for the link to ‘The Sims 3 in Russia‘. Below are two screens from the Wii version of The Sims 3 (update – these screens appear at EA Italy’s website, so they ARE the real deal. See comments for full explanation)
what????!!! the consoles get weather???
@ Lindsey yes. well… only the wii version will have weather and sims will be able to swim in the ocean and surf too. maybe someday we shall get weather again on the PC version or maybe not. also it’s been rumored that EA outsourced development of Sims 3 Wii so who knows.
Weather…half walls…curved walls (by the look of one of the windows)…swimmable water…
I think this may push some PC players over the edge! :S
I <3 my Wii, but this looks incredibly meh. I won't bother with it. Goodness only knows, they can't patch (or more likely the community can't mod) the bugs out like they can with the PC version.
Have to admit…it doesnt look much like The Sims…more like a cheap knock off.
I guess this is what happens when you outsource a game to other developers.
I can tell it’s The Sims 3. The lighting and overall artstyle is pretty similar. But obviously the Wii’s capabilities will make it look pretty meh compared to the other versions. As for the weather, the PC version already includes particle effects for weather that can be accessed by the effect emitter from Ambitions, and you can also alter how the sky looks when creating a world. So basically, everything is set up for weather inside The Sims 3, EA just have to code it in as a feature. So we’ll get it one day.
People talk down the Wii, but you just need to look at Mario Kart and the Super Mario Galaxies to see that it is possible, with the right balance in development, to get a great looking game on there. This, however, looks like it’s going to be as visually impressive as Castaway etc for the Wii. That is: Not very impressive at all.
I know that all of the capabilities for weather is already in the PC game but EA couldn’t have included it in the base game. If they did, how else would they ever get any of us to buy an expansion pack for it? Trust me, they know what they are doing and they WILL make a HEFTY profit by doing it this way.
Exactly. EA sells more when they separate big features into EPs. That’s just business. While we complain on a constant basis, EA laughs all the way to the bank.
The game looks cheap. You look at TS2 Pets on the Wii, and that looked better than this. I’m not sure if this is an actual in game shot, or what. Because this house, just looks terrible. If that’s how the actual homes are going to look. It looks like something made in “Google Sketch Up”
It’s a fake, folks.
Cheap ads for thesims3ru.com. It’s not screens of TS3 Console (wii). Jud, ask
them please about the source, where they took those pics. 🙂
It does look fake. If you notice the lighting, it’s the same in both pictures. It looks like they just put a blue overlay on the rain picture. And the sky looks like something you can easily do in photoshop. I know, because I’ve done it before. Also, this looks nothing like the pictures we’ve received from the official Sims 3 website.
They may be the real deal – I wish they would of provided a source…If anyone has their contact info, please let me know…
Here are a few more Wii specific console shots that I posted over time – some even have the same styled palm tree:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4684232252/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4684232276/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4683604335/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4683604345/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4683604357/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4684232356/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4683604413/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4684232418/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4684232454/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4687399855/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4687399863/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4701055724/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4700424659/in/set-72157623942652794
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simprograms/4843497351/in/set-72157623942652794
This looks like it was made with one of the crappier 3D modeling programs out there.
They could easily be cut out.
Sasha
It’s not fake. It’s screens by EA. And this not “cheap ads”. 😀
Anon, the source please
prosims v luboy gope zatichka (prosims is strapon in any ass)
Prosims is lying and they didn’t ask EA Russia, because they knew that it was official screenshots. And Prosims deals cheap ads expense of other of other sites in Russia and other countries too. It’s true. You saw it yourself. 🙂
Here link on Electronic Arts Italia:
http://www.electronicarts.it/mediazone/screenshots/screenshots/screenshots/18571/0/
Ok…so considering I can’t speak Russian, can someone please let me know what Russian fansites are reliable and which ones aren’t so I won’t go thru this mess again? I would really, really appreciate it.