The Sims 3 was released two months back and now EA has announced the first(in what could probably be many) expansion pack for the Sims 3 called World Adventures. World Adventures will allow players to send their Sims to new locations in China, Egypt and France. There will be unique skills and treasures to find in these locations. The expansion will also include 1000 Sim Points that can be used to buy new items in the Sim Store. The Sims 3 World Adventures will be released on November 16th 2009. Via Bigdownload
It is now likely that EA’s highly-anticipated Sims 3 title will not be making its February 20 launch date, after its publisher issued a statement claiming that it is now “evaluating the launch window.”
The Sims 3 is a much broader game than its predecessors, more concerned with telling stories than with focusing on the ordinary minutiae of everyday life.
Another nifty new feature is the ability to basically create cloth patterns and even textures on clothes, and then dragging-and-dropping those patterns onto other clothes. It's possible to create matching wardrobes, right down the shoes. Everything that you create can be saved and eventually shared with others.
While these are all mostly cosmetic changes, the big change to create-a-sim is the removal of the old messy/neat sliders and the addition of personality traits. You can pick up to five personality traits per sim, and this will modify his or her behavior appropriately. There are a lot of traits, stuff like evil, brave, coach potato, hopeless, perfectionist, natural cook. (Executive Producer Ben Bell likes to mention that they got many of the traits by going over online personal ads and picking popular descriptions people like to use.) You can make people as deep or shallow as you'd like depending on the type and number of traits. The traits that you pick also play a big role in helping to determine your sims' wishes.
As you may know, the big new feature in The Sims 3 is that it busts out of the single-lot-at-a-time gameplay of its predecessors. In The Sims and The Sims 2, whenever your sims left their homes or a downtown lot, you encountered a load screen. In The Sims 3, the entire town is simulated simultaneously; there are no loads. This opens up a lot more gameplay, as life is no longer fixed in one location. I had one sim get a job in the army; he could have simply picked up the newspaper and looked for a job that way, but I simply told him to hail a cab (he could also jump in a car, if he owned one), and I followed the cab as it drove through the town and up to the army base in the hills, where he jumped out and got an introductory job cleaning latrines.
Desktop Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP 2/Windows Vista
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz/Athlon XP 2000+
Memory: 1 GB
Video Memory: 128 MB (nVidia GeForce FX 5900/ATI Radeon 9500)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
Laptop Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP 2/Windows Vista
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 2 GHz/Athlon XP 2000+
Memory: 1.5 GB
Video Memory: 128 MB (nVidia GeForce Go 6200/ATI Radeon Mobile 9600)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard & Mouse
