The Sims 3 is now free at the Nokia Ovi Store, so if you have a phone capable of playing this, might as well pick it up!
Just like real people, the Sims have hopes and wishes, goals, needs and wants. Just like us, they dream of getting that all important pay rise or promotion. And if you don’t feed your Sim it will become hungry. If you don’t wash it it will start to smell. The Sims 3 is a proper real life simulator in your pocket. If things do get tiresome you can always teach it a new skill, or spruce up your home with new furniture by bringing up the Build Mode menu.
Unfortunately, it’s when you start to dig deep into the many, many features of The Sims 3 that the experience starts to grate. Testing The Sims 3 on an N97 we found the controls difficult, frustrating and unresponsive at the worst of times. Simple tasks such as making your Sim walk involves more taps of the screen than should be necessary. It’s not a problem all of the time, but it’s still annoying. What makes it worse is the sluggishness of the game’s touchscreen sensitivity, most notably in menus requiring you to slide a bar to access further options.
