http://images.ausgamers.com/games/screenshots//The Sims 3/TN_screenshot_0.jpg EA have revealed the first official details about The Sims 3 in a new press release:

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 press release has a breakdown on the major new features. There are a bunch of new screenshots as well.

Needs more gun.

someone made a game for Sim Cities years ago that took your city layout and turned it into a map that you could actually drive around.

it'd be nice to see S3 with this same function, with maybe just a few dozen scripted sequences thrown in just to give a GTA feel =)

build the city, then see the game play out with the specs of the city you've created.


gawd... I wouldn't sleep for a month.

I am wondering if the "neighborhood" stuff will have Internet elements, maybe even like spore where it just automatically draws characters/sims/content from other people's games

...3D tamagotchi.

i always wanted to be cool - thankyou simlife

This game is like an electronic form of crack.

They should let people import their creatures from Spore as pets.

At least then that heap of s*** game would have had a point.

(Spore sucks balls in case you hadn't got my meaning.)

Yeah I was waiting for an official Ausgamers review but that sounds just as definitive.

it'll probably be the ausgamers game of the year.

This would be fun!

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it'll probably be the ausgamers game of the year.

haha!