We beg your pardon!
Electronic Arts has announced a good thing: New Sims - in the form of The Sims 3. This new iteration of the franchise makes use of a game engine three years in the making.
Not only that, we're also told,"The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label". So, we think: console. Next-generation console. Brilliant. However, the headline of the press release tells us that the game is a "Next-Generation PC game". We're not entirely sure what a Next-Gen PC is, so we've asked.
Anyway, the detail, "The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighbourhood, new Create-A-Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization."
In precis:
"The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved one and friends—or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims. Storytelling options will multiply as your Sims stroll downtown to meet new acquaintances, head across town for lunch, spy on their neighbours and bump into the boss when they least expect it.
"In addition to the open, living neighbourhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever."
The "Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3", enables you to, "attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behaviour and how they interact with others and their surroundings. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix and match, more than 700 million combinations of Sims await.
"New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customize anything, anywhere! From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more..."
The Sims 3 will launch globally in 2009."
And, by the by, "The Sims franchise has become a global and cultural phenomenon since its inception in 2000.
More details are available here.
Not only that, we're also told,"The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label". So, we think: console. Next-generation console. Brilliant. However, the headline of the press release tells us that the game is a "Next-Generation PC game". We're not entirely sure what a Next-Gen PC is, so we've asked.
Anyway, the detail, "The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighbourhood, new Create-A-Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization."
In precis:
"The new seamless neighbourhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighbourhood and visit their loved one and friends—or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims. Storytelling options will multiply as your Sims stroll downtown to meet new acquaintances, head across town for lunch, spy on their neighbours and bump into the boss when they least expect it.
"In addition to the open, living neighbourhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever."
The "Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3", enables you to, "attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behaviour and how they interact with others and their surroundings. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix and match, more than 700 million combinations of Sims await.
"New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customize anything, anywhere! From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more..."
The Sims 3 will launch globally in 2009."
And, by the by, "The Sims franchise has become a global and cultural phenomenon since its inception in 2000.
More details are available here.
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deleted 19 Mar 2008 17:06
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well we might not like EA too much as a company, but Sims games are fun and pretty much asure EA of a shed load of fat wads of green paper!
Now will this game run on anything from 1967 onwards or will we require series 14 nvidia cards just to place a lamp in the room?
Now will this game run on anything from 1967 onwards or will we require series 14 nvidia cards just to place a lamp in the room?