The informational website for the upcoming Sims 3 is such a tease! The game won't be released until 2009, but it seems like it will be very well worth the wait.
The customization has pretty much quadrupled in features. You will be able to create super realistic Sims with an infinite amount of unique attributes from facial features, to body weight (muscle or fat), to the tiniest details about their personalities.
Instead of just picking a star sign like the other Sims games, you actually choose characteristics like: brave, romantic, kleptomaniac, and more! Crazy, isn't it?
House customization is insane as well. Natural lighting (squee!) will illuminate the furniture you have carefully chosen and matched together from unlimited choices in colors and patterns.
Probably one of the coolest features announced was the seamless neighborhood, meaning no more loading screens from house to house! You can zoom in and out of houses you play to view the entire neighborhood. Your Sims need only to walk down the sidewalk to reach a new lot!
One thing I'm curious about is how much of a load that's going to be on my computer. By 2009 I should be able to afford a nice desktop, so I'm not all that worried but it still can't a great thing if you have a large neighborhood.
Will your computer have to constantly update the details of other Sims lives while you're only playing one house? I'm going to give the developers the benefit of the doubt and hope that the new engine designed for the intensive gameplay will be efficient enough and not resource-heavy.
I am a diehard Sims fan, I admit it. I even have a Sims 2 gaming page to showcase some of my created Sims and my legacy families. I think what draws me to the Sims series so much is that I can build things quite freely. I love creating houses and after I discovered the Legacy Challenge it made it 100% more fun to play.
I honestly can't wait for Sims 3 to come out! It will be revolutionary, in my opinion, because it represents part of a whole new generation of intense games with realistic graphics and super smart AI! Here's to technology keeping us entertained! 
i want the ones for the wii i want a wii 
Omg! That’s an awesome idea, Sarah! But you know, Sims 3 is going to revolutionize itself with AI personalities…so maybe there might have something similar to that! I’m sure we’ll learn more in the upcoming months.
Would you believe that I was going to talk about Spore in this entry too?! I just ended up writing a book about Sims 3 so I decided to wait until another entry!
I can’t wait either!!!
I do play RTC3 (see my gaming page!) but I actually liked it more than RTC2! Maybe because the parks were a bit more flexible to create, I dunno. But I really don’t think that Sims 3 will differ extremely from Sims 2. From what I understand, they’re going to make it so you’re micromanaging less (meaning less often they will have to fulfill needs) and more of completing their aspirations and goals. Sounds awesome to me.
But I guess we’ll see, right?
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Oooh, me neither. I hope to gawd that they don’t require it to have the highest version of DirectX or Vista. That would keep a lot of fans from playing.