Sims 3, for all it's faults and troubles is probably the best Sims game to date.

The open world provides a sense of immersion not achieved by earlier games. This is a feature that was missing in previous games.

There are a wide variety of expansion packs to provide additional functionality for just about anyone.

You can pretty much play the game however you want, you can make your sim an upstanding citizen, a socialite, an excentric recluse, a crook or anything inbetween. You can have your sims befriend everyone and be known for being nice, use them to express your darkest desires to ruin all your neighbor's lives, or even ruin their own lives if you so chose.

That is not to say the game doesn't have it's problems. It is probably the buggiest game ever released by EA, and that includes Sim Copter and Streats of Sim City. It is using an archaic branch of Mono which makes the Mono releases chosen by Unity3D look new, and has a severely garbage collector that leaves unnecessary cruft everywhere and instead vacates other objects from memory as soon as you leave the lot they are on. It seems either the core programmers didn't know how to mark something as a cached asset, or just didn't bother. Despite the size of the game, there is no attempt to use either a disk heap, or a secondary virtual memory segment to store cached assets, and until recently it didn't even support over 2GB of game memory space.


Tech support is nearly non-existant, but fortunately the game has finally stopped being update to support expansion packs, which would commonly break the game completely for older expansion packs, so there are fewer issues.

To put it simply, the game itself I give a wonderfully positive rating as a near perfect game for it's category. It is everything a Sims game should be. However, the backend is flawed at best, and often downright broken, while tech support is downright non-existant. Frankly, I think EA could care less about technical support or keeping their older games functioning on newer technology, and I think recent reports of having the worst customer support in the video game industry are not only accurate, but an understatement.

Still, if you can put up with these faults, The Sims 3 is certainly worth your time and frustrations.

Sims 3, for all it's faults and troubles is probably the best Sims game to date. The open world provides a sense of immersion not achieved by earlier games. This is a feature that was missing in previous games. There are a wide variety of expansion packs to provide additional functionality for just about anyone. You can pretty much play the game however you want, you can make your sim an upstanding citizen, a socialite, an excentric recluse, a crook or anything inbetween. You can have your sims befriend everyone and be known for being nice, use them to express your darkest desires to ruin all your neighbor's lives, or even ruin their own lives if you so chose. That is not to say the game doesn't have it's problems. It is probably the buggiest game ever released by EA, and that includes Sim Copter and Streats of Sim City. It is using an archaic branch of Mono which makes the Mono releases chosen by Unity3D look new, and has a severely garbage collector that leaves unnecessary cruft everywhere and instead vacates other objects from memory as soon as you leave the lot they are on. It seems either the core programmers didn't know how to mark something as a cached asset, or just didn't bother. Despite the size of the game, there is no attempt to use either a disk heap, or a secondary virtual memory segment to store cached assets, and until recently it didn't even support over 2GB of game memory space. Tech support is nearly non-existant, but fortunately the game has finally stopped being update to support expansion packs, which would commonly break the game completely for older expansion packs, so there are fewer issues. To put it simply, the game itself I give a wonderfully positive rating as a near perfect game for it's category. It is everything a Sims game should be. However, the backend is flawed at best, and often downright broken, while tech support is downright non-existant. Frankly, I think EA could care less about technical support or keeping their older games functioning on newer technology, and I think recent reports of having the worst customer support in the video game industry are not only accurate, but an understatement. Still, if you can put up with these faults, The Sims 3 is certainly worth your time and frustrations.