The Sims 3 Collector's Edition | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $69.99
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 324
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: artificial_life_simulation_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Collector's
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 2.5
MPN: 014633190748
Model: 014633190748
UPC: 014633190748
EAN: 0014633190748
ASIN: B001EM1DK4
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | New Seamless, Open Neighborhood—Explore the neighborhood freely. | | • | New Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine. | | • | New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality. | | • | New Unlimited Customization—Everyone can customize everything! | | • | The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. |
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Product Description
Enjoy the freedom of creating unique Sims and immersing them in a living, open neighborhood where they can pursue short- and long-term wishes to reap rewards. Customize your Sims' appearances and choose individual personality traits to make them truly distinct. With unlimited design options, you can build everything from the ultimate dream home to a quaint beach cottage. The Sims 3 Collector's Edition will amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief; get you all these exclusive extras:
Amazon.com Product Description
The freedom of The Sims 3 Collector's Edition will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Customize their appearances and personalities. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true.  | 
New seamless neighborhoods.
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New create a Sim and personalities.
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Extreme home customization.
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Enjoy classics Sims activities.
View larger. | Key Game Features: - New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
- Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Who knows what might happen?
- Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
- New Create a Sim Functionality
- Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
- Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
- New Personality Traits
- Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
- Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
- New Unlimited Customization
- Everyone can customize everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
- Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
- New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
- Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
- Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
- Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.
- Get Connected and Share Your Creations with The Sims 3 Online Community
- Get free bonus content—download Sims, outfits, furnishings, houses and more.
- Create and Share Sims, houses, movies and more with anyone.
- Join The Sims 3 community to share ideas with fans of The Sims from around the world.
The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition includes Exclusive bonus content: - The Sims 3 game
- Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
- Exclusive European Sports Car Download
- New The Sims 3 theme music
- Prima Tips & Hints Guide
- $10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store
System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | | OS: | Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) | Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher | | Processor: | Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalent | Intel Core Duo Processor | | RAM: | Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB | 2GB | | Disc Drive: | 8x DVD ROM or faster | 8x DVD ROM or faster | | Hard Drive: | Vista & XP - 8 GB or more | At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. | | Video Card: | 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. | ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. | | Other: | Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower. | * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. |
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 MUST HAVE for any sims enthusiast! November 1, 2009
Elizabeth A. Beeso
Have been playing the sims starting with sim tower and moving through the sims collection, sims 2 (which I loved when it came out brought a whole new dimension) and now the sims 3 is even more amazing. Neighborhood play being able to leave your house and go about the town is great! If you enjoyed a sims game before, you are very likely to love this game. The new design elements are very nice. Only issue at this time there is no option for building your own neighborhood from scratch and I do miss that. I believe that you could take the entire town apart and start from scratch that way but I haven't tried actually doing that (yet).
It's a lot of fun. The new features are all terrific. Only tech issue that I've had is that if you remain idle too long, the screen gets dark and you cannot undo that without signing out of the game and then signing back on. So if you are up answering the door and get to chatting or have to run outside a minute, you either need to play with an unattractive dim screen or restart. The good thing is that if you save and exit, you do get to come back with the screen looking normal and your progress all saved.
I liked getting the bonus storage device with the collector's edition. It's practical and I get a lot of comments on it! It's a little bit extra but I think it's worth it. The alternate town you can download for free is pretty decent too. So at this point you choose between two neighborhoods of play.
There is an online exchange for customized items that players have created and also an online store. I bought some things with my free points (which is nice) but have not put any money into buying from the store. What's nice about it (opposed to item/expansion like homestuff for sims 2) is that you can buy items individually and don't get stuck with a ton of stuff you don't like.
 The Sims 3:A Pleasantly Disguised Ripoff October 27, 2009
Danielle N. Hoover (Louisiana)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first got wind of The Sims 3 coming out, I was ecstatic to say the least. I have been building my Sims collection since Urbz, Pets, Bustin Out, etc. on Playstation, and have since collected every single Sims pc game/stuff pack/item from the official store, and even fan gear. It was the personality traits that really did it for me, plus the lack of loading times within the hood and neighborhood story progression.
I'd originally planned to pre-order it here from Amazon, but decided to hold out, and eventually I decided to wait until the patches were released as I'd come across many forum threads with consumers complaining about bugs in the game. Finally I bought it as soon as the last patch 1.4 was released. Right away I was put off by the sims ugly faces and I was disappointed that all the sims turned out looking the same and there were no height customizations. I searched around to see what others thought and I was shocked to see how many people were raving about the sliders as if they'd just simply forgotten that Sims 2 had sliders as well! The lack of long loading times cannot be aprecciated when every building is a rabbit-hole besides boring places like a park and a pool with no diving board. Regardless of all of this, I continued to try to enjoy my game I'd paid such a high cost for. Every time I played it felt forced. Two months went by and my game began to crash to the desktop every 5 to 10 minutes. I went through 3 brand new pcs until I realized this was not a computer/spec issue and could only be fixed by EA.
I have uninstalled The Sims 3 and am in the process of reinstalling all of my Sims 2 games. The Sims 3 is not what I expected and is no great leap. EA has had penty of time to see what the simming community at large wants and I feel they failed us avid simmers.
Do I recommend this game? No. Not unless your money grows on trees and you are easily amused.
 Great October 9, 2009
Stich262 (Texas)
This game is fun, and the package was great, came in its original package with the USB as well.
Another good Sims release... September 30, 2009
Patriot Reader (Idaho)
Sims 3 , with its improved graphics and AI, marks the continual march towards advancement with this series.
Unhappy September 18, 2009
Jennifer
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have been a Sims since the very beginning. I have bought every expansion pack for both Sims 1 and 2 because I loved the game so much. When Sims 2 came out I stopped playing Sims 1 because it was such a huge improvement! Now, even with Sims 3 being out, I still love to play Sims 2. I won't be buying any Sims 3 expansion packs unless they make huge improvements and carry on the tradition of Sims 2. Sims 3 is more like a different game instead of an improvement. A lot of things that I loved about Sims 2 are gone. First, Sims having memories is gone. They now have "moodlets" but they eventually disappear. There is no record of their lives! Two, the aspect of having the ability to roam everywhere in the neighborhood is great. However, we can no longer see inside community lots (except for the park). The sims disappear when they go inside a building. What fun is that? Yes you can watch your sims go to work, but isn't fun just watching the building. Also, the genes are horrible. All of my sims' children look pretty much just like one parent. It is just about impossible to make a decent looking sim. All of them end up looking weird. Most of the clothing and hairstyles in the base game are ugly. At least in the Sims 2 base game there were decent looking clothing and hairstyles. Now you have to buy better looking hairstyles and items at the Sims 3 website. In my opinion, it is not worth paying extra money for them. It is way too greedy. There are more things that I don't like, such as the new control panel and graphics, but there are really too many to list.
I admit that there are minor improvements. You can now choose what your sims do at work. For example, you can have them work hard, slack off, socialize or suck up to their boss. There are also little missions you can do to get your sims a promotion or raise. Also, some career fields have a higher level to get to than before. Those features are neat. Another minor improvement is adult sims can now just be boyfriends and girlfriends. Your sims can dig in other people's trash cans and find neat stuff. If your sim is a reporter, they can find juicy stuff to write about, or if they are in the law enforcement field, they can write up reports about other sims. There are now more things you can do with ghosts, but the ghosts are even weird looking than living sims. You can bring back sims if you have their gravestone (once the game eventually gives you the option, but they will only be a controllable ghost. There is an improvement on fishing and depending on where your sims fish, they will find all different kinds of fish. Sims can even fish in the ocean, but they can no longer swim in it. They also can't search for stuff in the sand or sun bathe. I know those features were not available with the Sims 2 base game, but neither was the ability to fish so why remove some abilities and keep others. Does it require too much graphics since it is now an "open" neighborhood? Is that why we can no longer see inside community lots? If so, then the "open" neighborhood aspect isn't worth it.
Story progression would be neat if it wasn't so flawed. The patches have improved it, but not by much. I sometimes turn that feature on just to see what happens. In two of my sims' families their babies and toddlers died! What is that all about! In Sims 2 I hated to let my sims die. I created huge families and sims ended up having living great-great grandparents. I was glad to have the option to bring them back after they died. Now I really don't care if my sims die, except I don't want sim babies and toddlers die. That is just wrong.
Sims 3 is not worth paying $50, $40 or even $30 for. I bought my game used for $25 and am glad that is all I paid. (It is not a bootleg copy either). My sister, who is in middle school, really likes Sims 3 so maybe it is more for that age group than for adults. Do not remove Sims 2 from your computer because you will regret it. I'm glad I didn't.
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