GameSpot’s exclusive Sims 3 hands-on preview: From Top to Bottom There are even more options for building houses and buying furniture in The Sims 3, and better sorting options for both. The Sims 3 has tons of tools to build out a new home, including eight classes of flooring (carpet, tile, wood, stone, masonry, linoleum, metal, and miscellaneous floor patterns like mosaic tiles) and eight kinds of walls (paint, wallpaper, tile, paneling, masonry, rock & stone, siding, and miscellaneous patterns). The build interface has been rearranged to group items by context using a graphical menu that’s basically a line drawing of a house–mousing your cursor over the roof of the house lets you switch to roofs, while mousing over the trees outside of the house lets you jump to plants and gardening stuff. The build and buy interfaces also now have a powerful new sledgehammer option that lets you erase large groups of items or fixtures in one shot, though you can of course undo your most recent actions as well. Buy mode has also been tweaked to let you sort purchasable items either by the room they would go in or by function. There are also more kid-friendly options this time around, like more play structures and group activities to let you build up larger families. GameSpot spent some more time to provide us fans a new hands-on preview for The Sims 3!* Not only that, but we also get a new video as well * Check it out!
