PC World: Countdown to The Sims 3, a chat with Executive Producer Ben Bell GO: The Sims 3 is actually a prequel of sorts, right? Is it also an alternate timeline? Will Romulans and Vulcans come shooting out of a black hole at startup? BB: We took some of the characters who appeared in past games and we created earlier versions of them. That was more of a nod to our fans who’ve followed the series. But The Sims isn’t really about those characters. They’re background for your character, and while you can play as these unique characters we’ve created and dropped into the town, you can also choose to replace any of them with people that you know, your favorite TV character, your favorite sports heroes, whatever it is. We definitely wanted to use personality traits to say something funny about the classic characters that everybody knows from The Sims and The Sims 2, but I wouldn’t read it as a prequel. The story is there for you to carry on. PC World was phoned by Ben Bell and conducted a short interview about The Sims 3.* Again, there is hardly any new information…but at this point I don’t think we’re going to discover anything new!* So head on over to PC World and read the rest for yourself!
