For all its faults, The Sims 3 on 3DS is a serviceable way of getting your pretend life fix on the go. As a launch title, it’s frustrating that the game’s 3DS features aren’t better tuned. And the profuse number of bugs make it tough to take your Sim’s life seriously—after a while, you’ll likely just throw up your hands and resign to coming up with maniacal ways of ending his or her life. The game suffers most from trying to be a fully featured Sims game on a platform that just can’t sustain it, thus making even its high points little better than mediocre. It’s ironic that the series’ latest PC game, The Sims Medieval, with its streamlined Sim management features, might have been better suited for the platform.
With an expensive backlog of DLC that it struggles to run on modern hardware, The Sims 3 deserves revisiting.
They all deserve a remaster, alongside the Sims City games. Sims 3 in particular should be looked at more only cause of how hot it makes PC's.
A voice actor for The Sims spoke about his experiences doing voice work for the game's fictional Simlish language, and how there was no dictionary for them
The Sims franchise has been a part of my life ever since the first game came out. It was one of two games I camped outside of a store for, the other one being Black & White.
