Eurogamer - The Sims 3 Hands-on report After playing for a few weeks with this preview code, The Sims 3 is obviously the biggest renovation in the series since its initial appearance. The Sims 2 improved on the original in pretty much every way, but was still fundamentally based on the idea of individual lots - houses, shopping areas - requiring a loading pause to skip between. The Sims 3 throws all that away, and sets the game in an actual living town. People go off on their own daily routines, and you’re free to move your Sims wherever. And, in fact, you can even change which sim in the city you’re controlling. It was through this that I manipulated the move-in of my first sim to the rich family, thinking it ended the Machiavellian flirt-a-thon’s life appropriately. Eurogamer shares more of their time spent with the game - continue reading
