The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition

Product Description

The freedom of The Sims 3 Collector's Edition will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true.

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• New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
• Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
• Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
• New Create a Sim Functionality
• Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
• Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
• New Personality Traits
• Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
• Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
• New Unlimited Customization
• Everyone can customize everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
• Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
• New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
• Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
• Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
• Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
• Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
• Get free bonus content—download Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
• Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
• Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.

• The Sims 3 game
• Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
• Exclusive European Sports Car Download
• New The Sims 3 theme music
• Prima Tips & Hints Guide
• $10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store

System Requirements:

Product Details

• New Seamless, Open Neighborhood—Explore the neighborhood freely.
• New Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine.
• New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality.
• New Unlimited Customization—Everyone can customize everything!
• The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.

Customer Reviews

A welcome addition to the Sims franchise

Review Date: June 2, 2009

Reviewer: C. Parsons,

Perhaps I have been burned too many times by developers too quick to release a title with too little beta testing. It may be that reason that I am truly surprised at how stable and bug free the game has been for me. I have yet to have a single crash regardless of how hard I have pushed the stock game. Of course time will tell how it handles rouge or poorly engineered addons, but if the base game is any indication on how it will handle it, we should be fine. The graphics have seen a major overhaul, water now casts specular highlights into the air and sims are far more detailed then their sims 2 counterparts as can be expected while still running pretty good on recent hardware. But the graphics really are more evolutionary then revolutionary, far better but nothing to write home about. But the game tends to love ram and a fast harddrive, and the more you have and the faster the disk the more happy you will be with the game. On my primary system with 2G of ram and a SATA2 disk things fly, with very little wait for most things but on my older PATA w/ 1G ram things take quite awhile longer to transition. The video card however even at the lower end seems to be very capable with this game. As for the new features. Here things get a bit more mixed, there are some great things like the new recolor tool is so handy I am wondering how I managed to live without in on sims 2. It would be nice if they had a way to import textures easily from outside of the game without going though the trouble of creating an addon. It's really nice to see that workplaces are on the map and that you can go to them to receive special training and events. The cooking system is much much better, being able to buy recipes is pretty neat and having those recipes requiring unique ingredients is also pretty cool. There are also bad things like the shops, the game loses something not being able to walk around inside the stores and workplaces. It's nice that workplaces are on the map but the game could have added a new level for itself by allowing you to have a workspace within your workplace and allowing you to decorate that and allow you to do some play while at work. And who can for get the just plain annoying, who's idea was it to take the diving board out of the pool. It just makes no sense. But probably the biggest hair puller is that the navigation is just different enough to have you pulling out your hair, evicting a sim from a lot and placing them in a house took me 15 mins and requiring me to bin the character and then evicting them (but if they weren't binned they would disappear into the ether). Yes there is probably better ways of doing this but I am sure I will not be the only one bitten by this. All in all this game has a ton of potential and is performs rock solid on the systems I have tested it on. Overall I highly recommend this game. This game does use the securom CD copy protection, but doesn't phone home nor limit installs like the previous maxis release spore but If you have a moral or technical issue with CD copy protection this game probably should be avoided. ** Update ** Apparently I was confused the physical copy game doesn't include Securom, just a simple disk check. The download version however does. Sorry for the confusion.

It's the BEST!

Review Date: March 22, 2010

Reviewer: L. Roussel,

From making families, to making houses, to getting jobs and raising families, and building up skills, this game is endless fun. It keeps you tied to your chair unable to pull away from your sims' successes and failures. I love this game as I have loved every sims game previous. This one is by far the best. The only con....there are not enough hair choices.

Sims 3 is very cool!!!

Review Date: June 15, 2009

Reviewer: Erin Mcgaw, Nevada

I haven't really played the sims since Sims 1 and I did get to the Makin' Magic expansion pack. I got a copy of Sims 3 and I love it. I can't stop playing. I have to fight my roommate off to get to play. I love all the new things we can do like we have to fulfill the wishes and we get lifetime happiness points. I really want the teleportation pad. I love it and I think most who are playing it do too!

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