The Sims 3 is done with development and the game is being put on discs and shipped out to your local game retailer. In just 25 more days (June 2nd) you will be able to go to GameStop and purchase this for your PC and MAC. This is a very interesting game indeed. So much new features that leave the past Sims games in the dust, like one seamless neighborhood and no loading in between selecting homes. Your Sims now aren’t as “retarded” as past games and they can literally take care of themselves, you will see them walking and driving around the neighborhood. This is a truly next-gen game indeed. If you are considering buying this game when it comes out but you don’t know what it has to offer you may want to

So in case you haven’t been following this game but are thinking about getting it and want to know a little about it well look no more, here are some cool features about the game you may want to know.

NEIGHBORHOOD FACTS

• Seamless Neighborhood: Your Sim can visit neighbors, parks and shops without a loading screen.
• All the neighboring Sims will live their life and age simultaniously as your Sim (They’ll get married, get jobs,etc).
• The game will ship with 1 Neighborhood.
• That Nhood will consist of about 90 different lots. It will contain both Maxis made houses and empty lots.
• Several weeks after the launch, there will be a tool available to create your own Nhoods.
• When the game is out, you can download towns, made by other people.
• All buildings in the Nhood can be interacted with, so no prop buildings.
• There are 2 kinds of buildings; Buildings that you can build yourself and look into, and buildings where your sim disapears into and re-appears after some time.
• These buildings are ploppable; it means that you can just select them from a menu and put it in the Nhood all made and ready.
• Confirmed community places are: Pool, Gym, Park, Bistro, Art gallery, Library, Clothing store, City Hall and Bookstore.
• You can zoom out to see the whole Nhood at once or zoom in to a single Sim.
• You can move a house to a bigger lot.
• The Neighborhood stories and inhabitants will be a prequel to the Sims 1 Neighborhood
• There will be public events, such as music concerts, movie premieres, pool parties, barbecues, etc.
• You can follow your sim in the taxi or car by right clicking their thumbnail.
• Cars disappear when you reach your destination, and they reappear when you leave.
• You must go to the grocery store to buy food.
• You can choose to move to a new lot, and you can either sell your furniture or take it with you.
• There’s a community spa where you can get a facial, manicure, pedicure, or massage.
• You can modify both community and residential lots. Some community lots, like parks and swimming pools, can be totally customized. For work places, you can only add few things outside.
• Households can be merged, evicted and splitted.

SIM FACTS

• There are 6 needs in total: Hunger, Social, Bladder, Hygiene, Energy and Fun.
• Sims have Traits. Choose 5 from 65 types like Dreamer, Evil, lucky, etc. These Traits will affect how a Sim behaves towards others and affects their moods, like the mood of an Outdoorsperson will raise when he/she is outside. An evil Sim may slap another Sim.
• Toddler: 2 traits, Child: 3 traits, Teens: 4 traits, Young adult and older: 5 traits.
• They will look after themselves better.

• Fulfilling wishes of a Sim (like the wish to get a big screen tv, getting married,etc), gives you Lifetime Happiness points to buy Lifetime Rewards for your Sims. An example is Steel bladder (never pee again) and Haggler (All your shopping is cheaper).
• There are 32 different Rewards.
• Moodlets instead of a moodbar. If something happens like a marriage, the Sim gets a moodlet. These moodlets will affect your Sims’ mood and give abilities like learning faster. An example: Getting fired will get you a long lasting, big impact moodlet, while going to a small party will get them a short, non-dramatic moodlet.
• Hair will not grow but you can ‘paint’ certain parts of the hair.
• Sims have certain skills like cooking or fishing.
• You can fulfil needs by simply clicking on an icon.
• Instead of fixed interaction (like Talk or Joke), the options are filtered on your current Mood and Traits.
• Certain traits have unique interactions.
• There will be 7 age groups: Baby, Toddler, Child, Teenager, Young adult, Adult, Elder.
• Athletic skill can help Sims stay fitter and even live longer.
• Paintings that a Sim makes, will be unique to each Sim. It’s based on its personality and mood.
• You may control how much time a Sim spends on certain tasks like sleeping, fishing etc.
• You can set lifespans to range from 25–1,000 days or turn aging off completely.
• Free Will is on a slider bar. You can choose None, Low, or High.
• Sims don’t need ladders to get in or out of the pool but can still drown if you cancel the action from their queue.
• When you are socializing, there is a small pop up that tells you what the other sim is thinking about your ’socializing’. You are irresistable, moving too fast, hilarious, boring, etc.
• Sims can not get hit by cars.
• Every article of clothing is always available to you in the game, and are always recolorable. So no need to ‘buy’ clothing.
• Every single item you interact with gives your sim a good or bad mood boost depending on their traits/personality.
• You can change a sim’s outfit by clicking on them, anywhere at anytime.
• Sims automatically have a cell phone and you can change the ringtone.
• You can take pictures with your Cell Phone to hang on your wall or sit on your tables.
• Bad Mood sims are less likely to listen to your commands.
• You can have a private wedding or give a wedding party alone or in a community lot (in this case you should rent the lot and pay a fee).
• No more wedding arch: Just click on the wife or on the husband and choose “get married”. They’ll talk a bit, then exchange the rings and kiss.
• You can donate money to different foundations based on your personality trait. This will give you good moodlets.
• Sims can take classes to learn skills much faster than reading or doing.
• You can visit your neighbors, just click on the door and choose “Ring bell”. You can enter their houses too.
• Traits can be changed later in the game with one of the buyable lifetime rewards.
• If you have many people in your family, then you’ll start with more than 20.000 simoleons.
• Sims cannot be invited to a townies party, but they can be invited to a community party with the right opportunity cards.
• Sims will still do what’s in their action queue, even if you are looking at another sim all the way across town.

BUILDING AND BUYING FACTS

• You can use your own patterns/colours and then apply it to anything through a drag-and-drop interface.
• Each item has between one and four customizable regions that can be modified
• The game will have modding tools built into it.
• You can move objects 360 degrees.
• You can build 5 stories high.

• You can buy an empty bookcase and then buy and place books in it.
• Table and chairs link and can move as 1 object (same with beds and end tables).
• You can make a certain stair wider (up to 4 tiles wide) with a slider.
• You can position stuff on counters as long as the objects aren’t overlapping.
• Gridsize is 4 times smaller. Can also choose no grid at all.
• You can move whole walls and everything on it (wallpaper/paintings/etc) will move with it.
• There is a button that lets you choose to buy houses furnished or unfurnished.
• Sledge hammer tool has been enhanced, you can now drag an area to delete multiple objects.
• When placing objects against a diagonal wall the object will snap into place perfectly.
• There’s a roof height slider.
• The biggest lot size is 64×64 (same as a 5×5).
• There is an option for Auto-Roofs. So, while you build, the roof automatically appears.
• There’s a button that paints / carpets the entire room (instead of holding Shift).
• You can set light colors and brightness levels (both indoor and out).
• There is now a square terrain paint brush. Imagine using it to paint a sidewalk.
• You can change the floor / walls of a pool.
• There are single tile doors, double tile doors, single tile doors that center on double tiles, and even three tile doors.
• There are ceilings under ANY floortile placed. At this time, you cannot recolor the ceiling.
• There are no 1/2 walls yet.
• You cannot move objects up and down on walls.
• You cannot import patterns into the game yet.
• You can move the mailbox anywhere you’d like on your lot. Whatever door is closest to the mailbox is considered the front door.
• Fences rise with terrains.
• There are only 4 tv-channels: Sports, Kids, Action, and Romance.
• There is no diving board for the swimming pools yet.
• On the easel, there are three sizes of paintings.
• If you tinker on some objects, you can get upgrades like, fireproof, self cleaning and unbreakable.
• On a computer, you can: find coupons, browse the web, play chess, play computer games, tinker, and get a job. Computer Whiz sims can also hack and overclock.

PC REQUIREMENTS/ TECHNICAL

• PC requirements are 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM and a 128 Mb Videocard
• You require at least 6,5 Gb of harddisk space
• There’s no online multiplayer
• No DRM. To authenticate, you type in a serial code just as in Sims 2
• Houses have difficulty levels based on the age and number and amount of sims living there.
• You can save your game in different slots
• The game will be released on June 2nd 2009
• The Mac version will be released at the same day as the PC version
• There will be no weather in the game.
• The amount of Sims per lot is still 8.
• There are 4 speeds of gameplay.
• When someone dies, all his belongings are added to family inventory, so you won’t lose them.
• Every townie has a home, NPC’s do not.
• There are 35 to 40 different food recipies.
• You can hire Magicians for parties.
• Most current Sims 2 cheats will be in Sims 3 as well.
• Wind will move the trees.
• Ghosts are playable, can marry living Sims, and even make ghost babies.
• There are still same-sex couples and they can still adopt children.
• There is a Party Planner that allows you to set the time for your party, the location, and the dress code.
• You can pick up items (garbage, books,etc) yourself with a Hand cursor.
• Shadows move across the ground as the sun goes up/down.

Wow it looks amazing with all those new features and sorry but it looks like its not coming on any other platform.

Looks like no one cares. :P

this game will be a million seller first day, I seriously doubt "no-one" cares. If this doesnt sell 2+ million in 30 days I'd be shocked.

I only said that because this thread got no replies in quite a while.

No offence meant. :P

I do care... I have it pre-ordered and this is probably going to be even better than every past Sims games.

I won't be getting it, I have a lot of games to play and looks like this one is really good and like SIM games, very addictive (at least in the first... 20 hours :P), so I'll pass!

This will be big.

To the excitement of teenage girls and young women around the world.

I'll be buying this for sure. I love the sims.