The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief! Create over a million unique Sims and control their lives. Customise everything from their appearances, to their personalities and even the home of their dreams. Then, send your Sims out to explore new locations around town and to meet other Sims in the neighbourhood.  Go online for exclusive extra game content and robust online features including £6 worth of free SimPoints and a bonus downloadable town. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not!) to fulfil your Sims’ destinies and make their wishes come true.

The Sims 3

Release Dates:
2nd June 2009
4th June 2009
4th June 2009
4th June 2009
5th June 2009
Developers: EA Black Box
Visceral Games
The Sims Division
Publisher: EA Play
Platforms: Windows
Mac OS X
Other Platforms: Wii, 3DS, DSPS3 & Xbox 360
Version: 1.25
1.25 (Mac)
Series: The Sims
Mode: Single Player
Ratings:
PEGI ESRB
PEGI 12 Teen
Expansions: World Adventures
Ambitions

Late Night

Generations
Pets
Showtime
Stuff Packs: Design & Hi-Tech
Fast Lane Stuff
Outdoor Living Stuff

Master Suite Stuff
Console: The Sims 3 on PS3
The Sims 3 on Xbox 360

The Sims 3 on Wii
Handheld: The Sims 3 on Nintendo 3DS
The Sims 3 on Nintendo DS

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  • Seamless, Open Neighborhood!
    A brand new engine allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood, that is alive and constantly evolving, where they can roam and explore all new surroundings
  • Create-A-Sim
    The new feature is easy-to-use and more powerful than ever, letting you fine-tune every aspect of your Sims face and determine much more to make lifelike Sims
  • Unique Personalities
    You have the option to select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to create an endless number of truly diverse individuals
  • Unlimited Customization
    You can customize everything; The Sims 3 allows for infinite possibilities to design the interior and exterior of your Sims surroundings
  • Quick and Rewarding Gameplay
    Based on personality traits, skills and career choices, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges, things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether to fulfill their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards or not!

Windows XP Windows Vista Mac OS X
  • 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
  • The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
  • Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
  • At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
  • 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
  • 1.5 GB RAM
  • 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
  • Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
  • At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:

  • Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
  • 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
  • 0.5 GB additional RAM
  • Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
  • Intel Core Duo Processor
  • 2 GB RAM
  • ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.
  • At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games
  • This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.

Windows Supported Video Cards

NVIDIA GeForce series ATI Radeon™ series Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
FX 5900, FX 59506200, 6500, 6600, 68007200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 79508400, 8500, 8600, 88009300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295 9500, 9600, 9800X300, X600, X700, X800, X850X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X19502400, 2600, 29003450, 3650, 3850, 38704850, 4870 GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-SeriesLaptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly.Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants may default to settings that are higher than what would be optimal for them. Graphics settings can be lowered to improve performance.The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.

MAC OS X Supported Video Cards

NVIDIA GeForce series ATI Radeon™ series Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
7300, 76008600, 88009400M, 9600M GTGT 120, GT 130 X1600, X19002400, 260038704850, 4870 GMA 3-Series

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