Some sim-sites as SnootySims, InfinitySims and Edenstyle have published some interessant information about The Sims 3, token from the previews reported on two game magazines, PCGamerUK and Games for Windows, that for the first wrote something about the new game thank to a special interview with the producer Rod Humble.

We are a little in delay, but hoping to do something special, we have done a special article that focus on the key point of The Sims 3, cut of from the long contest of the magazines preview. Now you've just to read and we hope you can find something new!

While waiting for EA's official report about The Sims 3 (coming on March 19^th at www.thesims3.ea.com), we can figure out how the next episode of The Sims will look like, thanks to the sneak previews published by PC Gamer and Games for Windows.

On the April issue of both magazines there is an interview to Rod Humble, The Sims 3 producer, who describes some features of the game and shows several amazing preview pictures! Anyway, it seems that this game will be an improvement, more than a revolution, of The Sims 2, because even if there is a new graphic engine (that required three years of development), the general style of the game is always the same one of the previous version.

THE MACROCOSM

NEW SIMS

News are not only about the town and the environment sourrounding Sims, but also and manily about Sims themselves and their creation. Characters will have more realistic looks, with renewed skintones and more defined features. There are a lot of new modifiers, to assure the best customization ever.
Those tools are not only for the face modification, as happens in The Sims 2, but they involve the whole body, so that we can create fat Sims, skinny Sims, slender Sims with big arms, etc. There are modifiers for many body parts.

Lifetime wants and fears have been replaced with a set of Dreams and Promises: dreams can grow out of every situation (walk paste a cute Sim and think we'd like to know him/her better, for example) and, if we “sign up” for that, we can make them come true. Fulfilling a dream gives Sims a significant mood boost, that will affect their performances for some days. Unfulfilled dreams, by the way, do not influence Sim's mood.
Sims also have many more chances to begin a successful career, since we can arrange their shifts and choose if they have to do some extra work (and get closer to a promotion); these are the so called Opportunities. And what if we run into the boss while shopping? Well, just be polite and nice, you can even get noticed and have a promotion!