Here is TSR's fan day review. Check it out!

http://www.thesimsresource.com/article/sims3

Awww, you beat me to it. lol TSR seems to have the most info up so far.


I'm probably misunderstanding this. Young adults are like adults in TS2? So then adult is like a middle age life stage? Cool. I was hoping for a middle age life stage and it's nice that they sneaked it in.

Nice. That is going to make looking for sims so much easier.

Awwww I really hope that the favorites thing won't be removed from the base game. It sounds really nice... adds uniqueness to the sims.

I'm really liking the traits and moodlets system. The more I hear about it the more it seems to fit TS3.

LOL Sorry about that!

I'm really excited about everything so far. It makes sense for there to be a Young Adult stage seperate from the Middle Age stage. I was getting tired of dressing my Adults as middle-aged sims when they could have easily passed as 20 year olds.

46) "Loves" list in personality (Classical, Belgian Waffles for example).


i dont get this part...belgian waffles? wtf? explain plz? :s

i like that that you can assign different pitches vocally so that the voice of each sim is different and that you can place your exsisting house on a bigger lot!

It sounds as if Sims' personalities will include preferences for certain kinds of foods, music, etc., which I presume are available in game. So perhaps this Sim would experience a greater degree of pleasure listening to classical music or eating belgian waffles.

Actually I think it'll be more appropriate if young adult represents 18-40 years old, or maybe 35, because I think 30 is too young to be considered middle age, don't you think?

I agree Treeag, 30 is pretty young!

Wow, I just read this minute ago and I'm loving it... except for a few things... I wanted my preteens! Oh well, just the fact that young adult is added as a default stage is cool. But seriously, children to teens is quite a huge gap.

As for the favorites being removed, no, it's only the favorite color, not the food or music, read it again where it says MAYBE color.

Wow, playing The Sims 2 now just seems so dull and lacking! I wish I never knew about The Sims 3, lol. Oh well.

I just hope the Young Adults ain't gonna be as immature as the Sims2 YAs.

Agree there--TS2 YAs are so immature. Really.

And 30 seems too young for me. Maybe 35 or 40, they'll experience midlife crisis.

Yeah YAs run around like little kids, pillow fighting, joy buzzers, water balloons and it goes on, even my Sims2 Teens act older than YAs.

I also wonder whether Young Adults will be able to have children.

I'm unsure about Sims lives being even longer now - The elder stage, as it stands, is already far too long and incredibly boring - But I guess that will be helped by this 'living neighbourhood' thing.

Yeah young adulds will be able to have kids because they are the "set" age when you go into the cas screen/mode... and their age is based on 18-30.

I think 30 would be the perfect age to transition from YA to adult. After all, in real life thats the age when we all start to hit the wall! :D

I would still like for them to make another stage in between adult and elder. A person is still very much young looking at 35 and even 40. Or maybe give the adults subtle aging signs, like bits of grey hair or a bit of wrinkles on their face. It looks very odd when they age from the youthful looking adult into a very old person all of a sudden.

Altho' thiis article doesn't state it explicitly, it still indicates that time will continue across the town, not per individual household. I think this is a very bad idea, altho' the integrated neighborhoods might require this. Other than that, it sounds pretty interesting. I like the additional build options a lot.

its neccessary though. real-time simply has to happen.

14)Cars fade from lots. They don't drive away.

That's lame, I must say.

Apart from that, all looking well

I agree totally, but its probably to prevent game lag. (Or traffic accidents!! :D)

Well, I think that's exactly what they're gonna do with this new 'adult' stage. I read somewhere that as an adult, Sims start to get subtle wrinkles and perhaps a little bit of grey hair. The young adult stage would be something inbetween the current YA and adult.
That's how I understand it.

Surprised this one hasn't been noted... does that mean they don't remember what happened yesterday again? I sincerely hope this one is a case of bad wording.


The Body Shop improvements sound good. Loves/Favourites sound good. I definitely like the information that traits can be acquired, I was worried about the limitations the previously stated five traits would impose on characters (anticipating either a cheat or one of the first hacks will cover extending starting traits). Detailed thought bubbles feels a shame, but I understand with the more complex character design it's needed. I hope we'll still have a visible grid for placement of objects, while I frequently use move_objects and snapobjectstogrid (45 rotation is always on) I watch the grid for how to keep spacing good for Sims to move around things.

And quite frankly, yay for a mobile mailbox!

Starting to sound more like I'll be holding off simply because I'll want a more powerful computer to run it and hoping neighbourhood building will become available quickly. Still not a fan of unified time, but it's sounding more like I could deal with it with every review I read.

I believe it means that you can go to the memory panel...and instead of memories it will be a list of moodlets experienced. Hopefully there will be a way to filter them so you can just list important ones, etc.

"17) Teenagers sneak out at dusk and can be seen around town acting suspiciously"

I love this idea! Can't wait to see it in action.

"37) Difficulty levels per family (suggest how hard a family is to play based on personalities etc"
This is also a really cool idea. I like that some sims will be more challenging to play. It feeds into the idea that a lot of us already have. Some people think playing Knowledge sims is easier than Popularity sims, or super nice sims are easier to play than mean ones. This takes that idea and makes it a bit mroe interesting, IMO.

"40) Hair includes 4 layers: Roots, Base, Tips, Highlights. You can choose any color to apply to these 4 layers and can be saved as a preset. "

This is pretty awesome. Just love the idea that you have this much control over their look.

"56) Sim thought bubble in UI more detailed than before ("thought Cindy was being funny") "

I like this idea. Brings a bit more humanity to the simulated people, IMO.
As for the build and decorating options, they all sound amazing. Like exactly what I would have asked for if they had asked me.

Am having a slightly mixed response to this (but only slightly)...

Eh... couldn't we do that already?

I was hoping for something like this.

That sounds good- my game normally takes at least a minute to load each lot, if not more and, well... Patience may be a virtue, but it isn't one of mine.

...okay then, if you say so.

Ooh, this sounds fun!

Leather-bound, I suppose? My sims only ever read to build skills...

So school and work gets tougher? Sounds good- I'm tired of having to make an effort to ensure my kids get anything less than an A*.

Not sure about this one. Might be interesting, but then again...

I'm hoping that includes roads layout too and land modifications, not just lot rearrangement.