The Sims 3: no mo wee watching

Macworld show us a sneek peek of The Sims 3 for Mac:

It actually looks like EA have done some pretty cool things to expand the world while at the same time focusing the game. Instead of making sure your Sim doesn’t wet itself and go to work, you focus more on dreams and aspirations of your digital self, roaming neighborhoods and actually enjoying yourself.

Could go all a bit Barbie, we’ll have to wait and see. I hope you can still make swimming pools, let your Sims go for a swim, remove the ladders and watch them drown. Or remove all the doors from a house and watch your Sim starve. Once your Sim is dead, sell the gravestone for hard cash! Hardcore! Yes, I did remove legs from spiders as a child. And dogs. And people.

I think it’s safe to say that The Sims 3 will fairly popular. Oh, and the game is being Ciderized. No love for Aspyr then.

About Alex McLarty

Alex McLarty was the Editor of The Mac Gamer from it's launch until June 2011. His favourite videogames are Fallout, Deus Ex and most of Valve's catalogue. He has a cat named Cash.

3 Responses

  1. THOR says:

    I enjoyed making my sims as unhappy, ill, and despondent as I could and then try to bring them back from the brink. I enjoyed the challenge.

    Occasionally though, I just took out the doors and set fire to the place. :^D

  2. Dojan5 says:

    I’m so happy about this fact. Aspyr blows. No offence, but they cant make a decent port. It lags, and no anti aliasing and whatnot!?
    Thanks for not porting and ruining The Sims 3 Aspyr!

  3. Alex McLarty says:

    Dojan – what games are you talking about?

    Also, you might be attributing the blame to the wrong dev: sometimes GPU drivers and the OpenGL framework can be to blame.