By this time, most people know about The Sims 3 in general, but listed below are the basics of the game, including features in the game. Our focus now is the expansion packs of the game, although you can view information about the Sims 3 in the Shots of Screens (Screenshots) section, Traits section, and Videos section all of which are reviewed and updated as much as possible.

The Seamless Neighborhood
In The Sims 3, your Sims’ lives no longer revolve around the home. Open the door and discover a new town alive with possibilities. Every Sim has a unique personality including your Sims’ neighbors, co-workers, and friends. Your Sims can meet new neighbors on a brisk morning jog; visit their best friend’s home for a dinner party, take the family for a day of sun in the park, or even take that hot new Sim they’ve met for a romantic sunset picnic on the beach. Cultivate life-long friendships and stormy rivalries. As you explore your Sims’ surroundings, who knows what might happen! Your Sims might run into an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend, a long lost pal, or a fierce rival. The town is open for your Sims to explore! The neighborhood itself has a personality, created in part by the unique personalities of the Sims. Will you create a soccer mom who lives with her family in the suburban subdivision not too far from town? Or a wealthy businessman who owns a spectacular mansion in the hills overlooking the sea? The choices are yours; you can change the neighborhood into whatever you want it to be.

Create-A-Sim
Create Sims who look like you or anyone you know. The all-new Create a Sim is easy to use and more powerful than ever, letting you completely personalize your Sims’ appearances and personalities. Fine-tune every feature on your Sims face, customize their hair color, select the exact shade of their skin tone, and determine much more to make realistic Sims. Outfit your Sims with infinite fashion, make-up, and accessory styles. It’s never been easier to make Sims that are thin, full-figured, muscular, and everything in between!

Designate your Sims’ personality based on an innovative trait system. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to make a variety of interesting characters, who live in the neighborhood. Will you create an idealistic, creative dreamer who relishes taking risks thanks to his daredevil streak? Will you make an insensitive, drop-dead gorgeous socialite who neglects her romantic side and whose deepest secret is that she is actually a certified genius? It’s entirely up to you.

Customize Virtually Anything
Design and build homes with complete freedom to customize everything and make your very own neighborhoods. Infinite possibilities to design the interior furnishings of your Sims. Select any color pattern for your furniture that you can imagine. Match all your furnishings with the same pattern & color, or mix patterns & colors of the furnishings to create your very own look. The possibilities are endless for creating your Sims home of their dreams.

New Personality Traits
Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. They are complex individuals with unique personalities who can now rise above their basic set of everyday needs.

New Gameplay
There’s more to your Sims’ lives in The Sims 3. Enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards! Based on personality traits, skills, and career choice, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges—things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether (or not!) to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards! Will your Sim attend the right training exercises, salute the right military personnel, and skyrocket from a lowly Latrine Cleaner to a high-flying Astronaut? Will they hit the sports stadium, impress the talent scouts, and make winning plays that catapult them from a Rabid Fan to Sports Legend? Maybe your Sim will perfect their guitar skill, headline concerts, and be worshiped by legends of fans who propel them from the life of a Roadie to Rock Star status. Your Sims’ destinies are up to you!

I thought I would throw some information out about general Sims 3 facts, using this fact list.

The Sims

The Seven Age Groups: Baby, Toddler, Child, Teenager, Young adult, Adult, Elder.
The Sims will now have only four needs: 1. Entertainment 2. Bathroom 3. Sleep 4. Eating/Food
Sims will now have traits, you will choose up to 5 traits for your sim as an adult
It is possible to pass down traits of one sim to another
They will finally be more aware of themselves, or as several fans put it..they become smarter.
As of right now, now hair will grow, but you may edit the color pallet of the hair
They will now have skills, such as running, swimming, fishing, and maybe things like tree planting!
Actions your sims make will be based off of skills, mood and traits
Your sims’ needs may be fulfilled by clicking on a base icon of the need
Sims will now dream & Promise
The healthier your sim, the better and longer living they will be
Sims will still have age groups

Their Careers

Still no visible working sims
You may follow them to work within the seamless neighborhood
If you follow them, they will disappear inside their workplace
Each job field will have a bulding or ‘office’within the neighborhood
Sims may now apply for part-time or ‘full-time’ jobs
You can apply for a job at the career’s building in your neighborhood
You have more control of your sim at work:
Although you cannot see them, you can decide how hard, or how little they work
Being promoted is different, it depends on the sim more than the sims abilities

Their Homes

Objects can be moved at angle angle, completely ‘gridless’ ..hooray!
A user can use their own design patterns for objects in both build and buy modes
The game will have modding tools
You can put a better design on surfaces (counters, tables, etc.) using more objects
You can buy some things empty, bookcase for example, and buy and place your own books in them
Tables will link with their chairs;
Beds will link with their end tables, items like these can be moved as one object
Stairs can be wider
Players can build homes successfully, without cheats, up to five stories

Their Neighborhood

Welcome to the Seamless neighborhood: Sims can now visit shops, neighbors, stores and go to work without any annoying loading screens
Your neighbors will grow as you do, meaning they will not only grow if played
There will only be one neighborhood
About a month after the game’s launch, a neighborhood creating tool will be released
You can zoom out really far and zoom is so close to see the facial expression on bella goth
You can move your home to a larger lot
The neighborhood will be able to grow with expansion packs
All buildings in neighborhood can be edited, etc; meaning NO props!
A player can download towns created by other people
The neighborhood will contain anywhere from 75-100 lots

Create-A-Sim

Just as faces were shaped in The Sims 2, bodies will be shaped in The Sims 3
Different height of sims is not confirmed
You can customize clothes in the C-A-S; using your own patters, different patterns, etc.
You can now choose shoes..or none at all!
Players can now choose different races
Adjustable weight and fitness in the C-A-S
You can choose the favorite food, color, time of day, etc. for your sim
Sims created fat can become skinny
Sims created skinny, can also become fat
Legs and Arms are seperate, meaning a sim can have massive arms and a petite body

General Facts

Sims can grow their own food
Sims can fish and cook
No online multiplayer released with the game
Caught a big cool fish at the pond? put it in your own aquarium!
CHECK IT OUT: The game is being developed so it will run smoothly on older PC’s
Weather in the game is so far unknown
Players can use their ‘hand’ to pcik up books, garbage, etc.
The maximum amount of sims per lot is 8
Most if the cheats from The Sims 2 will be in The Sims 3
Wind will move the trees
Your sims will still speak in Simlish
Players can choose their own difficulty levels
Shadows not interact with the sun: i.e. If the sun is setting the shadows will be very narrow
You cannot drive first person, but you can command where they go
Paintings will be developed uniquely based on mood and traits, skills and attitudes
A MAC version is available in the same game
You can control the amount of time a sim spends sleeping, etc.
There are still thought bubbles: i.e. The though bubbles will be inside the control panel, not over the sim
Sims will still spin around to change clothes (of course..)
Players can still design, furnish and update a house
There will be expansion packs, none named yet
There will be same sex couples, and they can adopt children
The sims will still have an inventory, for obejects acquired, etc.
Sims can still pee their pants and die of hunger!