The Escapist – The Sims 3 for Console (X360) reviewed

While the core Sims experience is still great and addictive, and the Karma powers are alternately useful or hilarious, The Sims 3 on consoles has a few issues that make it less preferable to the PC original. Load times are frequent and just long enough to be irritating, but they’re hardly a deal-breaker.

If you’re used to playing The Sims on PC, though, the controls might be too annoying a hurdle to ever jump over. At their core, The Sims games have always been about navigating through various menus and radial selections. This happens to be the sort of input that is uniquely suited to a mouse and keyboard, where it’s easy to click this and then click that before clicking over there – boom, you’ve done what you wanted to do. On the console, you’ll need to push the right button to select your Sim, move the cursor to the general area of the object with which you want to interact, select the object, select what you want to do with it, hit the button to cancel what they’re doing right now – it’s simply a clunkier way of doing things.

The Sims 3 earnes 4/5 stars – full review