| The Sims 3 (Fr/Eng manual) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: CDN$ 49.99
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Seller: 1stVideo
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 460
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 15390
Model: 15390
UPC: 014633153903
EAN: 0014633153903
ASIN: B00166N6SA
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Product Description
Create Sims with unique personalities with Sims 3! Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality. Will your Sims be evil, artistic, insane, and romantic kleptomaniacs? It's entirely up to you. Influence the behaviors of your Sims with traits you've chosen and watch how their traits impact their relationships and the neighborhood around them. Combine over 60 personality traits to create millions of unique Sims and control their lives.
Amazon.ca Product Description
The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true. 
Create like never before.
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New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
View larger. | Key Game Features: - New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhoodâand take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
- Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
- New Create a Sim Functionality
- Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
- Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
- New Personality Traits
- Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
- Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
- New Unlimited Customization
- Everyone can customize everythingâdesign and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
- Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
- New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
- Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
- Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
- Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
- Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
- Get free bonus contentâdownload Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
- Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
- Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.
System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | | OS: | Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher | | Processor: | Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalent | Intel Core Duo Processor | | RAM: | Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB | 2GB | | Disc Drive: | 8x DVD ROM or faster | 8x DVD ROM or faster | | Hard Drive: | Vista & XP - 8 GB or more | At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. | | Video Card: | 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. | ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. | | Other: | Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower. | * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. |
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 Room for improvement, but overall a lot of fun! February 24, 2010
BookChick (Simcoe, ON Canada)
As a fan of The Sims from the beginning, I was excited to play The Sims 3. I was impressed with the majority of the improvements. The gameplay is a lot of fun, and having mini-challenges pop up throughout the game depending on what your skills are adds a new level of fun to the game as well. For those not willing to use cheats the money often comes in fast and furious once your Sim has a job and works a little on his/her skills. I like that you can get promotions even if your skills are not at 100% of the requirement- it allows for quicker promotions and less frustration from working on the same skills constantly. The houses that you can move in to are beautiful and easily customizable, and this game is suitable for teens as well as adults. If you want to make the game a little harder, just add to the family and suddenly you'll be scrambling to keep up with everyone. I like that you can control how fast your Sim ages. Collecting things is also a fun addition to the game.
There are drawbacks. I miss the seasons that Sims 2 has (with expansion pack purchased) and I especially miss being able to send your Sims to University. I would love for an expansion pack to come out that incorporates both of these elements because TS3 takes up a LOT of hard drive space compared to other games and also requires newer components (make sure that you meet ALL minimum requirements before you buy this one- I had to upgrade my RAM before this would work for me). Also, when your Sims sleep it takes forever, and it is often boring to wait for them to wake up. There are not a ton of outfits and hairstyles, but if you're only playing one family at a time it shouldn't bother you too much. I also wish that there was more of a variety of jobs. The ones offered are fun, but get boring when you're controlling your sixth generation of Sims.
Despite the drawbacks I would still recommend this game. I'll take a break for a month or two from it, and then go back, start a new family, and start all over again. The fact that this game never ends, and is never exactly the same, makes it a worthy addition to your game collection.
Sims 3 January 12, 2010
Jennifer Jones (Ontario, Canada)
this game is amazingly addicting, I can't even believe how fun it is, and theres a lot more to do than in sims 1 or 2, i love it!
 Great!!! December 10, 2009
Lyra Tallis (Ontario, Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Love the new version! I was a big fan of sims and sims2, but this one adds a new dimension. The aging process doesn't take as long so generations move faster and the story doesn't lag. Also, the sims around your family grow too, and their stories develop which means you're not stuck with the same people to meet and make friends with forever. Even the people you make will continue to grow when you're not playing them. The loading was something that drove me nuts in the second game and I guess they've reformatted their engine or something because now everything is happening at once. Love the gardening skill and guitar skill. More opportunities for making a living outside the set career paths. AND the new expansion rocks too!
Love it November 28, 2009
GhostMatter (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never played the Sims 2 because I never really found the first one to be fun for long. You drown them in a pool, build a nice house and that was about it. I don't mind open-ended gameplay but general goals are nice. I got initially interested with this one after reading blog/stories of Sims. This one changed all my gripes with the first game, I now have a goal for my Sims, one I can slowly attain while having my own fun.
Like many, I do find there is less content but I don't mind, really. Skinning resolves the problem and is very easy to do. On the technical side though, it's not perfect, crashes happen and I could barely play at the start because I had set terrain detail too high. Lowering it helped but crashes still do happen.
Addictive. August 29, 2009
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1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the game in June, and have been addicted to it ever since! I love the fact that the game has an open atmosphere, as in, the sims can travel freely through the town without loading screens. I also love the fact that the townies gather in the 'central' area of the towns too, so it makes it easier for your sims to meet their townies! Also, I've been addicted to Create a Sim (CAS).. there is SO many possibilities with creating sims it's amazing.
TIP: If you notice that the edges in the game are very choppy, turn on 'edge smoothing'. It makes everything look so much nicer! I was surprised when I turned it on.. my game looked amazing after that!
Also, make sure you install all the latest patches. Since there were many bugs that game with the game, such as the speed settings.
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