How much different is Sims 3 from the Sims 2?

I just got and installed the Sims 3! I love both of them, I really haven't gotten to play the game but so far so good. The controls are different, instead of being able to drag your cursor where you want the camera to move to you have to click and drag, which frustrates me and will take time getting used too. The way things are organized are also different. But i really do think it is better.

There aren't any expansion packs so far, but there is the create a style which is amazing! You can match your shoes to your dress.And you can change the colors of about everything (i.e. bike, car, laptop, curtains on bed, clothes hair, makeup, walls, furniture, cabinets chairs dessers and more). I am sure that they will have more expansion packs because you aren't able to go to collage.

The clothes are good but the adult hair is laking styles, but when you buy the game you get a ten dollar cash card and then you can go on the sims 3 website and get some cooler hair. What I also like is you can add highlights and tip and root colors.

Right now the Sims 3 is $49.99 (including the cash card), this is what I have and reccomend, with the collectors eddition it is $59.99 and you get a car, USB stick and one other thing, but if you are going to get a game guide I highly reccomend that you get the regular Sims 3.

The game guide I reccomend is the collectors eddition, it is $20.00. This is not for the Collectors edditon game, you can have either.You get a map of Sunset valley, mouse pad, and a detailed description of the game. It is sold at Best buy, the link is below

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Hello. I bought the sims 3 yesterday, and before that, I have been playing the sims2. The main difference between the 2 is that in the sims 3, the people look more realistic, and you can customize the color/pattern for everything. The cheats on the sims 2 still work for the sims 3 (I was so surprised). In the sims 3, the sims can actually leave their homes to travel in the outside world. I was rather disappointed, ot to sound picky or anyting. I paid 45 dollars (it was a discounted rate) for a game that was so similar to the sims 2 (which I got for free). The places,stores,theatres in the sims 3 aren't really 'accessible' and there are a couple of bugs. If you ever downloaded sims 2 custom content, there is little difference of the items from sims 2 to sims 3. The sims 3 clothing has gotten a bit better, but sims 2 custom content is still better (in my opinion). Do not buy the game just yet. They need to fix some bugs and discount the rate... Oh, and I heard they were gonna do expansion packs as well.

Sims 3 and Sims two appeared to me to be the same as each other, but i risked it and got the new one. In just one week of playing I have yet to even break the surface on whats new and yet I've found enough to write a book on.

From what is new that I have noticed, here are my favorite additions/ improvements-

1) You get to pick the sims' traits rather than giving them tallies for clean, nice and such. Now you get to choose if they are good or evil. Athletic, coach potato, flirty, snob, lucky, handy, bookworm, artistic, insane and so many more that all affect how your sims act. An example is my sim is lucky, so on Tuesday and Saturday he has a Lucky Day. This makes hims happier and there is more of a chance something good will happen to him. There is so many combinations that it squashes the Sims 2 five traits.

2) WAY LESS LOADING!!! The Sims 2 on a brand new computer managed to take 5 minutes to load to a new place and made it more of a pain to go to the city. Now the game loads in half the time and it takes 30 seconds or less to load a home and it doesn't use a loading screen!

3) You pick the color of....everything and anything!!! It doesn't give you that many outfits, but you soon learn that you get to pick the design and the color or every detail of that outfit. This takes out the entire use of recoloring and having a million custom content outfits cramming the closet. But its not just clothes! Furniture and walls and tiles! everything! Even their skin tone is customizable. My favorite thing to customize is the hair. You pick the color, the tips the highlights and the roots so now you can actually make them look the way you want. I spent 2 hours just making my first sim just exploring what I could do.

If you like the Sims 2, its very similar in the base of the game. You make a sim, they go to work, have a family, the kids look like the parents, they have wants, a life want, yadda yadda, but once you get playing, its like a whole new game. For once if they do add more expansion packs to the sims 3, ill be perfectly happy with just the main one. I'm overly excited by the new things and the improvements to the game and recommend it to any Sim fan or computer game fan.

Well, It's quite different from Sims 2. You grow up with your whole town like you would in your actual community, Instead of just with your own family. Which is nice. I love the Sims 3, but I won't ever forget the Sims 2 which I have just about everyone. No, You don't need to buy any other games for Sims 3. Right now it's just Sims 3. I don't know if they are going to come out with Expansion packs or not. As of now, No other games are needed but the Sims 3 itself. Yes, they have pretty good clothes and furniture. You can customize any piece of clothing or furniture. Which is called Create-A-Style. The game it's self is about $50. The Collectors Edition is $70 So, If you don't need a USB port thingy, Don't get the collectors edition. Hope I helped! Have Fun!

Before I go into detail, I'll tell you now: wait until it becomes a little less expensive (Now it's $50 regular $70 collector's ed.)

It's really not too different from the Sims 2. As I read before, it reminds me of the Sims 1. I feel the same way. There are things, like moodlets, free roam, and aging about the game that are different and cool, but other than that, it is the same, if not LESS than the Sims 2.

For example, in the Sims 2 (If you have Nightlife EP) you actually get into your car and back out of the driveway. In the Sims 3, your car magically appears on the street from your parking spot before you magically disappear into it. There is never any contact between Sim and Car. Maybe this will change in latter games.

Also, if your a user of the cheat boolProp TestingCheatsEnabled true, there is a similar cheat in the Sims 3: testingCheatsenabled true that allows you to change your relationships, add someone to your family (permanently might I add), change your relationship with someone (with out having to change there relationship with you), and alter there traits. That's about all I've seen that you can do with this cheat... so far.

One MAJOR improvement to the Sims 3 is the Create A Style tool. It allows you to literally customize anything you want. You could make your clothes, shoes, mail box, windows, doors, toilets, fridge, and wallpaper all the same animal print if you wanted to.

One more thing. There have been a few, well more than a few, issues with the fast forwarding not working at all. It seems there's a glitch that most people have. So if you do end up getting it before there's a patch, you'll be very frustrated.

***All in all, wait until the price goes down and they come out with a patch/update before you purchase the Sims 3. It's worth the wait...

Hope this helps!!

I was having a problem trying to decide whether or not to buy the Sims 3. (Because of the price) in the end i bought it, and i don't think it was really worth my $50! I like the Sims 2 animation a lot better. With the sims 3 they said it would look more realistic and so on, and to me it doesn't. Although I really do like how in Sims 3 you can customize EVERYTHING. Including their clothes, hair, and furniture.

Oh, it also seems to take longer to do things in the Sims 3, but that just might be my opinion. And the hairstyles aren't that great.

The animations are so much better. You can actually have children that grow up and stuff and make familys in the sims 2 and 3. Its so much more fun that the sims. Once I've played the sims 2 and 3, its made the sims very boring.

I love Sims 2, but I have the game and all it's expansion packs on my PC. I recently bought a macbook, so the great advantage for me was having sims 3 on mac. So this made up my mind, not being so impressed with the differences between the two. This being said, I LOVE the game being based in the whole neighbourhood (which I thought I wouldn't) it's great fun! I also like the moodlets and opportunities (ditto) and the create custom colours (ditto) for some reason. The motives dominate less of the game, which I find better as you can work on wishes and friends instead of constantly feeding your sim mac and cheese after mac and cheese.

There are disadvantages: the sims aren't as lifelike (which some people like and others don't) and have constantly fat freakin' faces which REALLY irritates me. There are, like, no attractive sims. Also, there are hardly any furniture/ hair/ clothes because EA wants you to buy it all in their store and presumably because of the added customization available with the custom styling. The time is REALLY slow if you have one sim that works and sleeps, even with the new x4 speed I get verrry bored while my sim is at work.

To answer your specific questions, you may have to (well, i say HAVE to because I am neurotic like that) buy expansion packs in the future but not as of yet but I suspect they will bring them out.

The cost? I'm not sure where you're from but I'm in the UK and it costs me around £30. Here is the USA amazon link if you want to know about elsewhere: http://www.amazon.com/Sims-3-Pc/dp/B00166N6SA

So yeah, there you go... have fun if you do buy it...

I own all sims 1 and sims 2 games. But! the sims 3 is a must buy. It really goes deep in the playing. after a while i felt like a sim. I am a little dissoppointed with the way their is not as much furniture or clothes as the sims 2 but you can download all that you want off the site. The sims 3 is the best game i have played in a long time. It is a little bit harder to play than the sims 2 and 1. The controlls are diffrent and that trough me off a little. But if you like the sims 2 you will love the sims 3. you do not have to buy any game but the sims 3 to play it. The game is about 50 dollars but its worth every simlon. There are not much clothes or furniture but what is there is better than the sims 2.

I got sims 3 yesterday and I love it. It is very different from sims 2. Most of the things that bugged me and i bet a lot of other people have been changed. No more loading screens every two minutes! EA will be making more games for it but there is none yet. It costs around 50 dollars. The clothes are good and the furniture is ok. The flooring and wall coverings are bad though.