Sims 3 to be announced soon?

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 18th February 2008
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The Sims 3 is set to be announced very soon if rumours are to be believed.

The Sims 3 is set to be announced very soon if rumours are to be believed.

Electronic Arts is rumoured to be working on The Sims 3, if comments by Sims Studio creative director Rod Humble are to be believed.

Speaking on the QuarterToThree forums (found via RockPaperShotgun), Rod said that "For Sims 3 there will be new information soon."

Just last week EA also hinted at a pair of new MySims games for the Wii and DS this year, as well as SimCity Creator and SimAnimals. The Sims 2 Freetime expansion is also incoming this year, so that's a whole lot of Sim for gamers to cope with.

Spore is going to be out this year as well, so check out our in-depth preview to see whats in store for that title.

Despite the continued over-exploitation of The Sims, Humble has said that there will be fewer Sims products going on sales this year than in last year, presumably as the title is now noticeably aging and EA is readying for pastures new.

Have you ever played The Sims, or do you think that such games are only for little kids? Let us know in the forums.
Quote badders 18th February 2008, 10:25
No No No!

MORE stuff that my mother-in-law simply has to have.

She's a Sims 2 freak, and will play it for days on end.

I'm just not going to tell her about this.
Quote rjkoneill 18th February 2008, 11:01
EA had better order some more 'laptop friendly' stickers
im sure we will see it outsell all the other games for the pc [you know... the good ones]
Quote rjkoneill 18th February 2008, 11:02
personally i may wait until 'sims in space' or 'sims on drugs' comes out
Quote Veles 18th February 2008, 11:19
I really like the sims actually, I thought it was good fun, but it old pretty quickly :(
Quote cyrilthefish 18th February 2008, 12:04
Quote:
Originally Posted by badders
No No No!

MORE stuff that my mother-in-law simply has to have.

She's a Sims 2 freak, and will play it for days on end.

I'm just not going to tell her about this.
My thoughts exactly

My parents PC can barely cope with sims2, i'm going to have to upgrade their PC when this comes out
Quote mmorgue 18th February 2008, 12:41
Sims 3 loads up... Screen displays a single message: "Sims 3: Turn around a look out the window of your bedroom. See the world outside. Go play what normal people call 'real life' ! "

/rolling eyes
Quote Almightyrastus 18th February 2008, 12:54
The Sims was good fun until having to micro manage every single thing got very old.

'you need the loo? well just go there instead of hopping around making a mess and waiting for me to tell you'

So much for AI...........
Quote Bauul 18th February 2008, 13:40
Quote:
Originally Posted by Almightyrastus
So much for AI...........

Lol. The Sims 3 with new improved AI! Load the game, let the Sims decide everything! Wait for 5 days... you win!!!
Quote CardJoe 18th February 2008, 13:43
What got me was the ludicrous time scale. Two seconds equalled one minute - so walking down the driveway to the car that will take you to work would take twenty minutes if you had a long garden path. The game would have been easy if not for that damn scale.
Quote Lowsidex2 18th February 2008, 14:45
More pseudo news from bit-tech. A news report that there might be a new report that there might be a new game in a few years. Not sure who's worse, Bit-tech for frequently reporting rumors and not facts or the companies using it to raise their shares 25cents before quietly canceling said plans a few months later. If there is actually going to be a press release, why not just wait till then to report it? If I want rumors, I'll go the the checkout line of my grocery store.
Quote naokaji 18th February 2008, 14:47
EA is evil i tell you:D well, i said so in another thread before Sims 3 was announced... boring run of the mill sequels with tons of expansions and zero game play innovation. i bet Sims 3 will prove my point perfectly once its out.
Quote ou7blaze 18th February 2008, 16:21
As much as I loved Sims1, Sims2 was good but got boring fast, Sims3? unless there is a radical change in gameplay or content, not banking on it being fun. :/
Quote chrisb2e9 18th February 2008, 19:16
what I hated about sims 2 was the engine that they used in it. I could play doom 3 on ultra but sims 2 ran poorly. if there is a sims 3 i hope they do a decent job on it.
Quote supermonkey 19th February 2008, 01:40
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Originally Posted by CardJoe
What got me was the ludicrous time scale. Two seconds equalled one minute - so walking down the driveway to the car that will take you to work would take twenty minutes if you had a long garden path. The game would have been easy if not for that damn scale.
I enjoyed Sims 2. I played it for a while until I moved on to other things, but as much as I did enjoy it I have to agree that the time scale was the most bothersome thing about the game. Considering how long you have to work at tasks to earn points later in the game, it could take you months of constant, repetitive game play to advance your Sim. I suppose that is the whole point from a business perspective, but if it takes you 2 hours to empty your bladder then perhaps it's time for 'The Sims: Retirement Home' expansion.

-monkey
Quote Aankhen 19th February 2008, 08:06
I <3 both the original Sims game and Sims 2 (plus all the expansion packs, of course). Also, regarding the time scale, I agree that it was somewhat irritating, but it didn't really make it difficult. You just had to get your priorities straight. :)
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