The gameplay (when they can actually play) is fun, but the problem is that the game freezes or plays with a darker screen than it should and keeps stalling.

I went to change a wallpaper and the game froze

The game freezes, crashed your computer not to mention that can damage your system

The Bad:On my own computer (a Dell with reasonable specs, Windows XP, although it's 4 years old) the game froze after about 5 or 10 minutes each time

The graphics are not as crisp as in Sims 2.

My wife loves this game, but she doesn't feel it's much better than the sims2 because there are some things missing such as not being able to create a restaurant

Hope everyone gets to enjoy it as much as I do

But I tried the Sims3 on my outdated Computer and the game booted up slow but wants I was in the game it seem to run OK good enough to play, and the bulding part of the game was not really that bad and the graphic detail were OK but not as good as in the

Camera movement is not as smooth as in TS2

I recommend reading as many reviews (both positive and negative) as you can and deciding for yourself

I get that this is to make it friendly to the casual crowd, but the UI is not as good as in 2.-As cool as the always-running neighborhood is, it does open the possibility of something undesirable happening to one of your families while you are playing another

The last con is that sometimes the sims will not follow the action as fast as you would like them to like sometimes when you make your sim take a shower, he might stand there for about 30 game seconds before showering

I am one who's computer runs the game but not as good as it could

Fun game but not as good as before

I loved the Sims, as well as the Sims 2 and spent countless hours playing the game

:THE GOOD*Everything is customizable, from the highlights in your sim's hair to the pattern on your sim's couch.*The sims can now be as skinny or fat as you want

the quality of the sims are almost as bad as in sims 1

They allow you to do so much more and aren't as restrictive as in the previous version