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First Impressions - Sims 3
I've gotten a little chance to play Sims 3. A couple of hours, no more... but... my first impressions are that this game is both familiar and very different.
I intrinsically recognize some of the logic in the game. For example, I meet someone, I greet them and we talk, and as we talk, we get friendlier. I recognize this logic.
And yet.. now the conversations are different. A Conversation I have with a computer wiz couch potato seems to be at least somewhat different than that I have with a Snobbish Sim. Conversations I have at someone's house seem to be at least somewhat different than that I have in the park. It's alot more.. REAL!
Which is... maybe true of the bulk of the game. The personalities are alot more real with up to five different personality traits. The jobs are alot more real (I got one of my Sims into the Professional Athlete job track and he became a Minor Leaguer. Now, to move him forward, he needs to not only have a good mood at work and not only a certain amount of Athletic Skill, but now he also has to be friendly with his team mates.. Not.. 4 Random Sims, his Teammates!
The new challenges lend an extra neatness to the game as well. I've done a couple of them, most of which aren't tough. One which I thought i did, but apparently didn't do well enough... I like how the map mode shows the locations you need to get to or the people you need to talk to for each challenge.
All in all, it's clear that Maxis has tried to make the actual gameplay alot more unique than it ever has been before. Yes, if you play long enough, you'll almost certainly repeat certain challenges, go through the same basic steps to upgrade your skills, etc.. but there's a great deal less repeatability here than in the Sims 2 Base Game.
All in all, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of a fairly deep, very interesting and rather good game. I knew I'd be biased towards this game, but I think EA/Maxis did a really good job trying to give us the kind of game we'd want to play.
My only complaint is just that I think I'm realizing my original intent to 'flitter' around family to family, do this and then this and then this.. just won't fly here, so I'm still trying to learn to deal with the Sims' finite lives when they age whether we play them or not...
I intrinsically recognize some of the logic in the game. For example, I meet someone, I greet them and we talk, and as we talk, we get friendlier. I recognize this logic.
And yet.. now the conversations are different. A Conversation I have with a computer wiz couch potato seems to be at least somewhat different than that I have with a Snobbish Sim. Conversations I have at someone's house seem to be at least somewhat different than that I have in the park. It's alot more.. REAL!
Which is... maybe true of the bulk of the game. The personalities are alot more real with up to five different personality traits. The jobs are alot more real (I got one of my Sims into the Professional Athlete job track and he became a Minor Leaguer. Now, to move him forward, he needs to not only have a good mood at work and not only a certain amount of Athletic Skill, but now he also has to be friendly with his team mates.. Not.. 4 Random Sims, his Teammates!
The new challenges lend an extra neatness to the game as well. I've done a couple of them, most of which aren't tough. One which I thought i did, but apparently didn't do well enough... I like how the map mode shows the locations you need to get to or the people you need to talk to for each challenge.
All in all, it's clear that Maxis has tried to make the actual gameplay alot more unique than it ever has been before. Yes, if you play long enough, you'll almost certainly repeat certain challenges, go through the same basic steps to upgrade your skills, etc.. but there's a great deal less repeatability here than in the Sims 2 Base Game.
All in all, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of a fairly deep, very interesting and rather good game. I knew I'd be biased towards this game, but I think EA/Maxis did a really good job trying to give us the kind of game we'd want to play.
My only complaint is just that I think I'm realizing my original intent to 'flitter' around family to family, do this and then this and then this.. just won't fly here, so I'm still trying to learn to deal with the Sims' finite lives when they age whether we play them or not...