A new feature of Sims 3 is Wishes. This is a bit like what you find in Sims 2, but instead when your sims have wishes, you choose to throw them away or promise the sim that you will help them reach their wishes. Accomlishing the wishes gives your sim lifetime happyness points, that you can use to buy achievement traits. There are more than twenty of these achievement traits, so surely some of those will be great for your sim.

The new expansion will allow you to rent an apartment instead of having to move into a house alone. This means it will be cheaper in the beginning for your sim, but each will there will be rent to pay. There are a lot of finished apartments available, from trailer parks to classy, modern apartments. Some come with some furniture for your sims, while you are totally free to change these and repaint the whole apartment.

You will now have neighbours that might play high music during the night, or maybe you are the party lion keeping your neighbours up. To help pay the rent you can also get a room mate.

If you want to make your own “Friends”-series in Sims 2, you should check out Apartment Life.

They also announced The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition, that will be released the same day. This will, in addition to the game itself, give you Sims 3 Merchandise and an additional ingame Sports Car. If you preorder the Collector’s Edition, you will also get a vintage sports car (in-game) and a poster (out of game I hope) for Sims 3. You will also get a Sims 3 USB Drive.

This is a large change from the previous game, and will enable you to co-play with other Sims-families in a completely new way. If you are playing more families yourself, or your real-life friends and family make sims-families in you neighbourhood, you can experience their home and sims in a new way, forming relationships and having fun. Check out the official page for the feature here.

A few new things are revealed about the game, like adults being middle aged with wrinkles. This means more progress for your Sims and they will start looking a bit older earlier than in Sims 2, where adults suddenly becomes old after looking like young adults for many decades.

The town will be more important than previously, and will play an important role for your sim. This probably means more taxitrips to different lots. It will also be easier to change the town from a macromanagement perspective, and you don’t have to build every lot from ground up to change something.

I’m sure this also is good news for all those who doesn’t have game store close to home. I just hope that EA will have servers that will be able to tackle the potential massive customerbase.

You can watch the trailer here:

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