Many of players in community have asked of what will change with the new version of The Sims.
My opinion, based on the demos we saw at TS3 Fan Day Event, is that the biggest change is that you can see the whole active neighborghood
around you when you are playing one house. There will no longer be load screen when sim goes to downtown or to any other
house in the neighborghood. When you no longer have separate houses you have better view over your neighborghood. You can see people
going to work, jogging, talking and generally do whatever they do in their everyday life. Developers have apparently tried to minimize the waiting time in game.
(Ideal for me, I hate sitting and waiting for my sims to complete a task.) Other major change is that you can place furniture more flexible. You no longer are tied to
in-game grid nor you have to use hacks to rotate items. For example, you can center 3-seat sofa in front of 2-tile tv or place your furniture in any
angle you wish. The objects like paintings and other furniture in the game will also adjust with diagonal walls. Sims' neighborghood also includes now special decorative buildings which have special
function similar to regular objects. For example, you can apply for a job in a research center by clicking the building. There will be functions that
help a sim get a promotion or solve other problems that occur in everyday life. Because of the new game play - you can zoom seamlessly from town overview to a single household -
there has to be new ways to manage the bigger world. One of the ways to make the game run smoother is new speeding system. The game speeds up
until sim has finished their current task.
Neighbourghood has map tags which will be easy way to find things.
Sims have longer age span. The base game will have young adult (ages 18-30) as default and there
will be new age group between adults and elders.
There will be new build tools. And you can change the angle of the roofs. Cars will be included in base game. The parking area can be on any free area in a lot. Different kind of shady people will come out at nighttime and evening. Sims have traits instead of aspirations, the amount of traits will increase when sims age depending on how well they grow up. The possibility
to choose your sim's traits will also depend on how well they have succeeded in their life. Babies, toddlers and elders have now more functions and things to do. There will be sims from previous games.Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4