From an Interview with Belgiums PC Gameplay, an interview with Lindsay Pearson.
Which Sims 2 elements will find their way to Sims 3?
Some elements were selected from the start because they fit into the core experience of The Sims 3. Fishing for example is one of the expansionfeatures that made it to an important skill in Sims 3.
There’s also a Creativity skill, only this time it’s based on the guitar instead of the piano.
The Sims is concidered an interactive soap. How will you lift this to a higher level in The Sims 3?
The seamless Nhood is a huge step forward. The player will be able to go into the Nhood and adjust all inhabitants. For example, if you want to model your Nhood to The Sopranos or Desperate Housewives, then you can adjust all inhabitants til they are just like those people. And then the game takes over and you become part of that world. So it’s actually much more then a TV-series since things happen out of your control.
Will The Sims 3 contain multiple Nhoods?
No, there’s only 1 Nhood, but then it’s extremely large – More then 90 houses, each inhabited by a Simfamily. But you can save the Nhood into different slots so that you can create multiple storylines.
Probably later, we will make tools available so you can create your own Nhood, but at release, your stuck with just one Nhood.
Are there certain scenerios you can choose?
Well, you can choose from very diverse families which will all create a seperate storyline. If you want to play with a family that has 2 children at the start, it will be an entirely different experience then if you choose a single adolescent who’s at the start of his career.
Can you tell some more about the Customization options?
With an integrated editor, you can adjust every object, from walls to furniture to fashion and hairstyles. You can create colors and patterns and then use it on all objects. If you want a sofa with zebra motif with purple stripes, then that’s perfectly possible. Then you can also use that pattern on your bed or reading lamp.
Also in CAS, you have more control about the looks, clothes, hair, etc. and you can share these creations easily with other players. If you can design cars? Well you can change the colorpattern but if you want to add silly things on your car, get Spore.
Do you use Sims 2 technology?
No, we created a completely new engine with new animation and rendering technology because that was the only way to realize the lively Nhood and extensive designtools. The engine for Sims 2 was good for what it was meant for, but to implement the Sims 3 features, it was insufficient.
The biggest work was done in the last year. About system requirements, we can’t give those yet ofcourse but we do want to make the game available for a very wide audience.
The visual leap between Sims 2 and Sims 3 seems smaller then between Sims 1 and 2. Does this have anything to do with the – probably demanding – Nhood element?
Partly yes. However the screenshots give a somewhat distorted image, because when you see the Sims 3 live at work, you immediately notice the high detail in the world and its characters. But yes, the Nhood element with its hundreds of inhabitants who all live out a life simultaneously, forced us to make a trade-off between speed and graphical detail. Because of this, we can’t make the huge leap forward as with the Sims 2. However a leap from 2D to 3D is always hard to surpass.
A Belgian games magazine, PC Gameplay, has published an article about The Sims 3 in dutch. While no new screenshots are available, it does bring about some new details about The Sims 3.
“The visual leap between Sims 2 and Sims 3 seems smaller then between Sims 1 and 2. Does this have anything to do with the – probably demanding – Nhood element?
Partly yes. However the screenshots give a somewhat distorted image, because when you see the Sims 3 live at work, you immediately notice the high detail in the world and its characters. But yes, the Nhood element with its hundreds of inhabitants who all live out a life simultaneously, forced us to make a trade-off between speed and graphical detail. Because of this, we can’t make the huge leap forward as with the Sims 2. However a leap from 2D to 3D is always hard to surpass.”
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Thanks to Snooty Sims for this information.
Coming in 2009!
What if you had to live your whole life in one location … and then one day, suddenly, you could step outside and go anywhere in the whole neighbourhood?
The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to create unique Sims and immerse them in your own living neighbourhood of endless possibility!
New Seamless, Living Neighbourhood—Your Sims explore the living neighbourhood freely.
New Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine.
New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is now a truly unique person, with a distinct personality.
New Unlimited Customisation—Everyone can customise everything.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS – News) announced today the first details on one of interactive entertainment’s most anticipated games, The Sims™ 3. Featuring a brand new engine that has been in development for nearly three years, The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood right outside their door. The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create A Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization. The Sims 3 will launch globally in 2009.
The Sims franchise has long been recognized for its appeal to a universal audience, both male and female, and at any age. Its broad appeal and loyal The Sims community has vaulted the franchise to an impressive 98 million games sold around the world and translated into 22 different languages. Celebrated for its creativity, humor, and community, The Sims franchise has become a global and cultural phenomenon since its inception in 2000.
Now, The Sims 3 is being designed to be the next-generation flagship game from The Sims Label.
“In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighborhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system,” said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. “It is this type of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy long-term gameplay.”
New Seamless, Open Neighborhood—Explore the Neighborhood Freely.
See the sights with your Sims! The new seamless neighborhood architecture allows your Sims to roam freely around the neighborhood and visit their loved one and friends—or foes. Discovering other Sims homes and families, traveling around to new locations like City Hall or the local park will create a whole new way of life for your Sims. Storytelling options will multiply as your Sims stroll downtown to meet new acquaintances, head across town for lunch, spy on their neighbors and bump into the boss when they least expect it.
New Create A Sim—Create Any Sim You Can Imagine.
In addition to the open, living neighborhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever. Create-a-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customize just about any Sim you can imagine. From thin to full-figured to muscular—everything in between and even the extreme! In addition to determining your Sims body shape and size, you will also be able to fine-tune every feature on their faces, customize their hair style and select their skin tone, all from a vast selection of options. With so many choices to choose from, it is fun to create more realistic characters that look like you, someone you want to look like, or even a famous personality.
New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim Is A Unique Person, With A Distinct Personality
With the innovative and proprietary Realistic Personality System in The Sims 3, you can attribute each character with five distinct personality traits, helping shape your Sims behavior and how they interact with others and their surroundings. This new system will empower you to create extremely complex and diverse in-game personalities. Will you create the nosy, inappropriate, kleptomaniac grandmother who loves to meddle in other people’s business? Or the commitment-phobic, hot-headed punk rocker whose rude nature and childish disposition keeps him from scoring a date? In The Sims 3, Sims will go beyond the basic set of day-to-day needs to be distinct individuals with multifaceted personalities, who can focus both on short-term opportunities and long-term goals. With a wide selection of personality traits to mix and match, more than 700 million combinations of Sims await. You never know who’ll meet in The Sims 3!
New Unlimited Customization—Everyone Can Customize Everything!
New and accessible creativity tools in The Sims 3 make it simple for anyone to customize anything, anywhere! From floors to flowers, fashions to sofas, wallpaper to window shades and more, The Sims 3 gives you all the flexibility and options you need to be the architect of your dream house or explore your interior design skills to outfit your ultimate home. Your Sims can make home an ultra-deluxe mansion, a cool bachelor pad, family’s dream home or charming cottage. The choice is yours in The Sims 3.
”The new engine and technologies in The Sims 3 are designed to unleash the player’s imagination with realistic looking Sims who have distinct personalities and a seamless living neighborhood for them to discover,” added Ben Bell, Executive Producer on The Sims 3. “Players are going to be thrilled by the level of realism in The Sims 3!”
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