GamePro – Married with Sims (The Sims 3 Console preview & 2 new screens) SimsDomination spotted a new preview on the various console/handheld versions of The Sims 3.* The article highlights a few new factors of what we’ll see in each version.* Not only that, but they showed off 2 screens.* It’s going to be a pain keeping up with these screenshots – they look just like the PC version! By spending Karma Points, the player can inflict numerous woes and joys on Sims at will. Player demonstrates this on the Xbox 360 version by loading up a house party already in progress. At first glance, the 360 version looks identical to the PC game with one exception: A moveable beam of light replaces the PC’s mouse icon as the player selects which Sims or objects to interact with. Player scrolls the beam through the house and past bikini-clad Sim ladies dancing around a stereo on the patio. A couple of button presses later, a Karma Power menu appears with placeholder option text like “Fire” and “Earthquake.” Player selects Earthquake, and the image on the screen begins to shake. The Sim ladies shriek and run around the house in a panic as various objects — like the speaker — break or catch on fire. The quake ends, but Player isn’t done showing off the Karma Powers. Just seconds after the earthquake, he selects one of the household’s playable Sims and inflicts Doom on him — which reduces all of his Needs gauges to zero (causing him to stink, lose bladder control, and starve, among other things). Player is careful to say that while Karma Powers can put Sims in peril (like setting the Hunger Need at zero with no nearby food), you cannot directly kill a Sim with them. Not all Karma Powers are evil: Five seconds after using the Doom power, Player casts Satisfaction, which undoes all of the Need debuffs caused by Doom. GamePro – Married with Sims
