The Sims 3

The Sims 3 is on the horizon!

It is coming in 2009, and it has some definite features that I am way excited about - namely - the fact that you are playing in a whole neighborhood rather than one household at a time, so your Sims can stroll out of the house, down the street, to the park, or into a coffee shop without loading new lots constantly.

Also, I am excited about how we will be able to create our Sims personalities. In Sims 2, you were given 25 "points" that you could use to create your Sims personality, distributing them among 5 personality "bars" (sloppy-neat, shy-outgoing, lazy-active, serious-fun, and grouchy-nice) - with each bar having the possibility of 10 points max. The way you distributed your points gave your sim a personality.

The creators of Sims 3 noticed that in the real world, when people classify themselves, they do so by character traits - so when creating your sims personalities, you will have a list of 80 some odd character traits (lazy, clumsy, genius, family oriented, etc.) and you will pick 5 to describe your sim. This should really make sims customizable!

I am pretty excited. This is my favorite article so far.

There is also lots of information at Snooty Sims.