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Can The Sims 3 Help EA Get its Groove Back?
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Electronic Arts has been known for its struggle on garnering trust to its gamers. Economically EA’s potential for profit is huge with their Sports line, Maxis, Boxing, Action, and Mobile gaming department. They continuously flaunt their in-game advertisements and its economic success.
Still this all takes a toll on a consumers by the recent drop in stock shares and quarterly earnings reports. The Sims 3 has many potential spots to solidify game play and do well with gamers. But we worry if EA’s marketing strategy will get the best of it.
A New Gaming Approach
The Sims 3 has an ambitious goal ahead of it. One of the major changes is that it now focuses on ONE household. Your person is placed into a world where everyone’s lives evolves with or without you. It sort of follows the lines of a MMORPG. Everyone existing in the game has their own schedule, love life, and personality. This doesn’t seem to worry fans too much since this concept was used during the Life Stories product line.
The Art Style
The most critical component for potential consumers at this stage is the graphics. The graphics look marginally better than they appeared in The Sims 2. A more realistic approach was expected, unfortunately the only areas so far that seems to be visually improved are the outdoors.
This screenshot depicts of a more detailed and realistic look of how a neighborhood is like. Now that the world is seamless, the gameplay allows you to leave your house and walk to another in real time. You will be able to move around the world with as much freedom as the console games. Hopefully as you move around, there should not be anymore loading splash screens that break up the action, but I do expect a loading screen before you enter another building.
Interior design still has that barren Sims 1-like look, every object is placed on a grid. The only new feature with object placement is diagonal rotation. This is not enough to make this game stand out from its predecessor. [Editor's Note] They have now revealed 360 degree rotation. This will now place the game way above Sims 2. Path finding need’s to be able to adapt to these rotations though.
This is the only screenshot so far has the most radiant lighting effect. The sun shines through the windows and the couch gives off its glossy glow, if only every screenshot presented this rise in quality…
User Feedback
Here are some various user comments from different message boards:
What I was most looking forward to in Sims 3 was a major overhaul in the department–a more realistic looking game–after all, it is a life simulation, but apparently that’s not going to happen. This looks like more of same to me, with incremental improvements.
Actually I looked at some of the graphics and they are dramatically improved hardware wise. The problem is that everything is unquestionably UGLY
Lindsay Pearson Interview Response:
However the screenshots give a somewhat distorted image, because when you see the Sims 3 live at work, you immediately notice the high detail in the world and its characters.
We shall see how this will turn out, there isn’t much uproar for this game as Simcity Societies. So far EA, your on a positive note here.
The Sims 3 will be released in US on June 2nd, 2009
The Sims 3 will be released in UK on June 5th, 2009
The Sims 3 will be released in AU on June 4th, 2009
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I can’t live and breath without sims////:D But when is going to shops answer please
Everyone is so excited, as I am, but I have read that the game doesn’t come out until June 2nd. I was told Feb. 20, 2009 a month ago and then a few days ago it was June 2nd. I have loved the Sim from day 1, but the clothes and furniture are always hideous. I downloads so many things to the game that my computer has to be dumped and I have to start over all the time. I even had “The Compressorizer” to compress the downloads folder. I am so dissappointed that the game was pushed back. I am overhauling my laptop to make sure I have enough room
In Argos its £34.99
So, lots of different prices
And it is in Argos now.
hihi
hallo sims 3 is geil ich habe es schon man kan sich es ausen internet laden wersuchst mal und wil schpas und erfolg
The Sims 3 is acctually coming June 2, 2009. It has wonderful graphics, seamless neighborhood, and costomization. When you create a sim you can make it have highlights, tips, or even a different root color. You can also choose shoes sepratley, a new feature. You can pre-order the Sims 3 at http://www.amazon.com
The article says June 2nd though in yellow.
Well, in the UK it’s already out.
As Kieran said ( ^^ ) It’s out in Argos for £34.99
Haah. Everyone in the US is so unlucky xD
If your talking about Argos.co.uk they have it for sale for £29.99, you can buy the game now but it will be delivered 5th of June, 2009. Store companies who release games early before the release date can get fined.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5734175/Trail/searchtext%3ETHE+SIMS+3.htm
Omg cant wait till sims !! im such a fan.!! im soo buying it.!!!
the relase date is June 2nd for u.k and june 5th for the rest
omg cant wait
xx
This is the official release date.
For the United States it is June 2nd, 2009
http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/home.jsp?languageCode=en
For the United Kingdom it is June 5th, 2009
http://thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/home.jsp?languageCode=uk
For Australia it is June 4th, 2009
http://www.electronicarts.com.au/search/?search=the+sims+3
do you have more pictures obout sims 3?i am crazy about it!
Wo0o0o0ow really w0o0o0ow .. but i hope this will be the last one ,, i can’t download the game eveytime
i like the sims 2 and also i like 3 but what will happen after one year will we have 4 ??
so i hope will never be the sims 4 ..
Thaaaaaaaaaaaanx ^_^
love u all
i gotta get this game. hits stores june 2nd 2009 (in the U.S.) ! and wth..its def. not gonna be $.99.00. it’s between 50-55 dollars, no higher… you could possibly get it cheaper though.
omg I want it to come out well u know sims 3 so please come out. The only reason I play sims is because I want to be an inteior disgener since i was 4 and now I have 7 diffrent 3D disgen softwar for my pc! so I CANT WAIT UNTIL JUNE 2 , so the last week or day of may I will go crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
sims 3 looks so cool because it has really good graphics so I will craet my bffs mireal and ursala plus lowell ( his name is really frank) but almost nobody knows that so basicly I will create lots of sims in sims 3 .
omg omg omg sims 3 is da bomb, most people think in sims 3 they are going to make amaricans fat ( my worst bff) and they will make me fat but the problem is I am very very skinny so they will be liers hahahahahgahahaha
lalalalalalaalal sims 3 is awseme !!!! so I still cant wait until june second which is still a month and 3 days away,( in the us ) which wil take forever
I LOVE SIMS
i have been playing sims ever since i was like 7 in 2003…
and my cusin Jordan showed me every thing and ever since that i have been buying and playing sims and sims 2 and now to see that ea made a sims 3 i cant wait for it to be out i all realdy have money for it i have been redy since febuary to play it!!!!
Cant wait
Cody
in sims 2 i had the grandparents living next to their kids and grandkids. but the grandkids couldn’t stay longer than 9pm which sucked cus i sometimes sleepover at my grandparents homes. well anyways i hope the sims 3 is a lot more close nit- if u know what i mean. i can’t wait ’til it comes out.
haha! lucky for me, I didn’t find out that there was gonna be a sims 3 until a week ago so the wait is shorter for me
ya right $99 maybe $60 but $99 ya right no game is that much not even resident evil 5 and that game is epic
I’M GONNA DIE IF I WON’T GET TS3 =’D
OMG sims 3 is the best game ever i love it so much but not as much as twilight lol. =D
an easy way to get 40,000 reward points is to get a sim that has the lifetime want where he/she wants $100,00 in the family interest or something.
type in ctrl shift c then type motherlode till you have $100,00 simolins. you should have at least 37,000 reward points. then either leave him/her alone or do more wants.
only for sims3
the sim 3 rocks =D
I don’t know what everyone is complaining about, TS3 is a really great game, and a MASSIVE improvement on TS2!
The game sure crashes a lot :X
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