The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.
New Seamless, Open Neighbourhood—Explore the neighborhood freely.
Your Sims can roam throughout their neighbourhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?!
New Create A Sim—Create any Sim you can imagine.
New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between! Choose your Sims’ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair, eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories.
New Realistic Personalities—Every Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality.
Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They are complex individuals with unique personalities.
New Unlimited Customization—Everyone can customize everything!
Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to flowers, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns giving you endless personalization options. Or you can populate your Sims’ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottage?
Quick New Features
• New Seamless Neighbourhood. (Instead of playing just one house at a time, you play the whole neighbourhood)
• More fitness levels. (Your Sims can now become ultra-fit, or ultra-fat, or somewhere in between.)
• New Personality Traits system.
• Unlimited Customization. (You can choose the colours and patterns of objects, plants, clothes, and more. You can even make the objects match your Sims' clothes.)
• Picnics.
• New Workplaces. (Your Sims go to work at different buildings in the neighbourhood depending on their career. You don't play with them inside the workplace however.)
• The ability to place objects at angles.
• Better lighting.
• Likes and Disklikes. (Some Sims might like TV, some Sims might not.)
• Celebrities. (Possibility only. The possible Celebrity feature is shown in the trailer.)
• Playing music in the park for money.
• Bin Raking / Tramps. (Certain Sims are able to rake in the bins for food.)
Features Carried on from The Sims 2 Expansion Packs Include:
• Seasons & Weather (With the all new weather, wind, too.)
• Gardening and Fishing
• Inventory
• Cars
• Jewellery
• Country Collection. (From the screenshot, you will be able to spot a lot of the objects included in the Country collection from the Seasons Expansion Pack.)

Create Completely Unique Sims
Create Sims who look like you or anyone you know. The all-new Create A Sim is easy to use and more powerful than ever, letting you completely personalize your Sim’s appearance and personality.
Fine-tune every feature on your Sims face, customize their hair style, select the exact shade of their skin tone, and determine much more to make realistic Sims. Outfit your Sims with infinite fashion, make-up, and accessory styles. It’s never been easier to make Sims that are thin, full-figured, muscular, and everything in between!
Designate your Sims’ personality based on an innovative trait system. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to make a variety of interesting characters, who live in the neighbourhood. Will you create an idealistic, creative dreamer who relishes taking risks thanks to his daredevil streak? Will you make an insensitive, drop-dead gorgeous socialite who neglects her romantic side and whose deepest secret is that she is actually a certified genius? It’s entirely up to you.
Traits Include: Adverserial Artistic Athletic Brave Charismatic Childish Clumsy Commitment Issues Conversationalist Creative Cursed Daredevil Dreamer Easily Bored EVIL Excitable Family-Oriented Flirty Fortunate Friendly Frugal Genius Gloomy Good Sense of Humour Good Green-Thumb Grumpy Handy Hot-Headed Hydrophobic Idealistic Inappropriate Insensitive Kleptomaniac Light Sleeper Loner Lucky Mooch Natural Cook Neat Nice Nosy Outdoorsperson Over-Emotional Paranoid Partier Perfectionist Pizza Lover Playful Romantic Rude Schmoozer Shy Slob Socialite Tramp Unforgiving Unlucky Vegetarian Whiney Workaholic Worrywart

Create A Home
Design and build homes with complete freedom to customize everything and make your very own neighborhoods. Infinite possibilities to design the interior furnishings of your Sims. Select any color or pattern you can imagine to furniture. Match all your furnishings with the same pattern & color, or mix patterns & colors of the furnishings to create your very own look. The possibilities are endless for creating your Sims home of their dreams.