
You can also adjust the terrain, either to make it flatter or more hilly/pointy. Upgrades to the build mode include being able to drag a wall to extend or decrease the size of a room. As her funds were limited, I decided to hold off on building her a grand house, though the option to build is there. While the parks and beaches allow you to watch and control your Sims as they interact with other Sims, the public buildings for jobs and socializing (including the restaurants, sports arena and theater) are all rabbit-hole areas where the Sim can visit for certain specified interactions while we wait outside the building and listen to the faint sounds of whatever might be going on inside (muffled chatter, clanking dishes, bells ringing, etc). In addition to the various work-related buildings, there are parks and other public properties like restaurants a theater and a sports arena. Moonlight Bay is a quaint neighborhood that offers everything a Sim needs to live, work and play. Your own level of involvement in how specific you get with how your Sims look depends on how much time you have and how much you care about the little things like eye-brow shape and ear-size. You can choose pre-made Sims and pre-made clothes or customize their looks further using the style and body editing tools. I selected her facial features, body type and clothing. I started out in Create-A-Sim, creating Arissa Fry, a female young adult.


In addition to the Lifetime Rewards and Lifetime wish option, which gives your Sims different goals to achieve throughout their life and various life-assisting rewards, The Sims 3 console version also offers Karma points and other earnable achievements, but we’ll get to that in a little bit. The third version of The Sims was released for the PC and Mac more than a year ago and last week EA introduced the console version, which is essentially the Sims 3 base game with some enhancements and some alterations from the PC version.
