The problem I've come to have with the Sims series is that there's no story. And I don't really buy into the "it's a sandbox game - you make your own story!" BS ... no you don't. At the end of the day, when you've maxed out your sims' career and taken them to the mall to buy fancy clothes and all that, you're still left with a really shallow experience. You've basically spent hours of your life increasing numbers on a spreadsheet.

I love the architecture simulation aspect of the series, and making characters is unquestionably fun. I just wish there was an actual game to play once I'm done building my house and moving my sims in.

Narrative-wise, I don't think its fair to expect some cinematic plot line. The Sims has always been a soap opera, and that follows the peculiar narrative logic of the serial. So, you move from the happy home plot to the wandering eye plot, to the career-first plot to the, maybe I will try gay plot and so on. It never ends until you get bored.

That said, I don't think you guys are too far from many of the hard core Sims fans. One of the biggest upgrades in this version is providing a lot more power and versatility in the building tools. Now you can turn things at an angle and pattern and color stuff pretty much any way.

Of course, once you build that badass Clown Cottage you've always dreamt of, isn't the next step to woo the goth down the street so you can start a little evil clown family?

And the story continues.

@CaptainHomeless:

Oh there's a story and it involves people that sometimes deficate and urinate in the living room. Your best bet? Install a carpet next to a fireplace and let nature take its course

@Bullet_Witch:


See i'm not the only one that has "experimented" on my sims.

To the above: grow a fucking imagination.

To the reviewer: you are for shit.

This game TS3, for those who've actually played it unlike yourself, is a lame, ill-executed, crap excuse for a franchise extension. The whole point you've wildly missed in your utter phobia about anything but shoot/blow/destroy type games (talk about boring) is that TS2 sim design was such that a player actually gave a shit about what happened to their creations, unlike the grindy, dance like a mouth-breathing moron, 'I have no history thus you won't care at all about me enough to buy expansion packs' sim design inflicted by TS3.

SIMS GAMES AREN'T ABOUT COLLECTING SHIT, ROD HUMBLE. They're about creation of sims, their families & life strategies, time management, working for or against sims you make or draw into other sim families.

TS3 sims go into a workplace/mausoleum/restaurant & I get to READ about it. Cheat much?

Humble and Co. have made a game about collecting crap, yet you switch to another lot to play & the previous family's inventories full of collected crap ARE DELETED BY DESIGN. Wtf?!

The fucker shipped broken too, just like all the pre-release pirates said it was. You shitty non-reviewing reviewer, you. A major ingame utility (story progression toggle) WAS SHIPPED BROKEN. You lame-ass excuse for a 'journo', get bent.

This game is so full of fail I would run out of characters from ripped-off consumer profanity alone. Buy the game & then buy the rest of the content from that shitty store that not only sells broken crap but is shared instantaneouly on 3rd party sites - fixed, no less, & for free.

Try playing the fucking thing as it was 'meant to be played', or better - get someone who knows what they're dealing with to play it, & then tell people what they're buying: a bullshit effort done by people who had no business making a life simulator for people who've done nothing but buy all the previous, & superior, forms of the game FOR YEARS on end.

You lazy fuck.