The Sims 3 Series

Sims 3 Maniacos discovered a new Sims 3 video with producer Grant Rodiek overviewing the life of 3 sims that he has created:  Kim, Piper and Liam.  Running to the bathroom during gameplay, The Sims took a life of their own and follow their own decisions.  What did they do?  Well watch below!

Haha, looks as if Liam is a player!  The thought of him owning a huge portrait of himselve hanging in the bedroom falls on the creepy side of things though.

Just got word thru email that SimFans.de has published part 4 of their interview with MJ Chun on youtube.  Watch the video!

The authors of the Prima Games magazines posted on their blog two newsposts from their time with The Sims 3.  One covers the Create-A-Style mode and the other talks about one of the authors creating themselves within the game (it’s about a week old).

No longer can I just build a personal study with a desk, chair, computer, and a bookcase. Now I have control over every detail of these objects. I have this thing about matching. By “thing,” I mean freakish obsession that makes decorating with me about as fun as walking into a glass door — over and over. I decided to do my Sim’s study over in wood, starting with a bookcase. There are lots of wood textures to choose from. After spending several minutes browsing in the Create-a-Style tools, I settled on a rich cherry. Now it was time to match the desk, chair, and even the easel I has artfully placed in the corner, tilted in front of a huge window. Instead of having to click on each object and then root around in all of the textures and find the one I previously picked, I just clicked on the bookcase to bring up its texture pre-set and dragged it over the other objects. Immediately, the chair matched the bookcase. Then the desk. I was seconds away from making the computer on the desk wooden, but I managed a little self-control. I may be crazy, but I’m not silly.

The Sims 3 – Create-A-Style

After tugging and tucking, I dug into the traits selection. You can select five traits that flesh out your Sim’s personality. At first, I loaded myself up with honestly, industriousness, a sense of humor, kitchen skills and luck. Oh, I was a real extrovert that was the life of the party and the kind of employee that rockets up the career ladder on the wings of spunk and vivaciousness. But then I took the same kind of honesty I applied to my Sim’s physical appearance and used it to work on her personality. I kept the sense of humor and luck because those are real. But in remaining slots, my clicks turned into confessions. I am at times lazy. The stack of dishes in my sink sometimes reveals my week’s eating habits much like strata in rocks tells a geologist about the fossil record and volcanic activity. Those kitchen skills? Gone. Mama Browne makes mac-and-cheese from scratch. I struggle with the boxed kind.

The Sims 3 – Making Me

All right, what a great update today!  Gamespot brings to us 5 new images from The Sims 3 (The lab and astronaut images are awesome!) as well as a preview and even a video interview (I don’t remember, but I think it’s an old one…added it though in case someone may of missed it!).  Check out all of the goodies below!

Buy and Build modes have been tweaked in The Sims 3, and neighborhood lots will also work differently. Previously, furniture for your house was sorted by function and type; now they’ll have a revamped room-specific sorting list as well. The larger part of the story of the Buy and Build modes will be the use of create-a-style to paint all of your furniture, as well as your house, with whichever patterns you want as freeform wallpaper and carpeting–such as with, let’s say for the sake of example, leopard print. (We tried this, and you can absolutely have leopard-print sofas in a room with all leopard-print walls.) Swapping in custom-built items created by the fanatically loyal Sims community will also be made easier in The Sims 3 with a built-in application that runs out of the game’s launcher (as opposed to having to quit the game, open up a Web browser, and pulling up the “Exchange” community site, which is being updated to include YouTube-like and Facebook-like functionality, such as blogs, friends lists, favorites lists, and user ratings). In addition to uploading and downloading furniture, customized sims characters, and housing to and from the community site, The Sims 3 will have an in-game movie-making tool that will let you upload and download videos to and from the Exchange. More details on that at a later date.

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PCWorld’s Senior Editor Darren Gladstone was invited to EA Redwood Studios to check out a preview of The Sims 3 in action.  He brought back a video.