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Electronic Arts today announced the first details on one of
interactive entertainment’s most anticipated games, The Sims 3.
Featuring a brand new Engine that has been in
 development for nearly
three years, The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique
Sims in an open living neighbourhood right outside their door. The
initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open
neighbourhood, new Create-A-Sim, new realistic personalities and new
unlimited customization. The Sims 3 will launch globally in
2009.
The Sims franchise has long been recognized for its appeal to
a universal audience, both male and female, and at any age. Its
broad appeal and loyal The Sims community has vaulted the
franchise to an impressive ninety-eight million games sold around
the world and translated into twenty-two different languages.
Celebrated for its creativity, humour, and community, The Sims
franchise has become a global and cultural phenomenon since its
inception in 2000.
Now, The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation
flagship game from The Sims Label.
“In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their
home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighbourhood,
interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality
system,” said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. “It is this type
of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities.
In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of
all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy
long-term gameplay.”
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,
travelling 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. Create-A-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customize
just about any Sim you can imagine. From thin to full-figured to
muscular - everything in between and even the extreme! In addition
to determining your Sims body shape and size, you will also be able
to fine-tune every feature on their faces, customize their hair
style and select their skin tone, all from a vast selection of
options.
With the innovative and proprietary Realistic Personality System in
The Sims 3, you can attribute each character with five
distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behaviour and
how they interact with others and their surroundings. This new
system will empower you to create extremely complex and diverse
in-game personalities. Will you create the nosy, inappropriate,
kleptomaniac grandmother who loves to meddle in other people’s
business? Or the commitment-phobic, hot-headed punk rocker whose
rude nature and childish disposition keeps him from scoring a date?
In The Sims 3, Sims will go beyond the basic set of
day-to-day needs to be distinct individuals with multifaceted
personalities, who can focus both on short-term opportunities and
long-term goals. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix
and match, more than seven-hundred-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 gives you all the flexibility and options you need to
be the architect of your dream house or explore your interior design
skills to outfit your ultimate home. Your Sims can make home an
ultra-deluxe mansion, a cool bachelor pad, family’s dream home or
charming cottage.
“The new engine and technologies in The Sims 3 are designed
to unleash the player’s imagination with realistic looking Sims who
have distinct personalities and a seamless living neighbourhood for
them to discover,” added Ben Bell, Executive Producer on The Sims
3. “Players are going to be thrilled by the level of realism in
The Sims 3!” |
