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* [[Create A Style|Create-A-Style]]
 
* [[Create A Style|Create-A-Style]]
 
* Ability to adjust [[lifespan]]
 
* Ability to adjust [[lifespan]]
* Ability to turn off aging
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* Ability to turn off aging (was did it using cheat window in ''The Sims 2'')
 
* New skills ([[Guitar]], [[Painting]] and [[Writing]]
 
* New skills ([[Guitar]], [[Painting]] and [[Writing]]
 
* Skill challenges
 
* Skill challenges
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** Dynamic performance criteria (skills, co-workers, assignments)
 
** Dynamic performance criteria (skills, co-workers, assignments)
 
** Raises
 
** Raises
* Basement, basements tool.
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* Basement, basements tool. (was on under foundation deck in ''The Sims 2'')
   
 
===In expansion packs===
 
===In expansion packs===

Revision as of 01:49, 8 January 2010

The Sims 3 is based on The Sims original base game and The Sims 2 original base game, and therefore contains many of the same features.

Completely new features

These features in The Sims 3 base game have not existed in any game in The Sims series before:

  • Seamless neighborhood
    • Bicycles
    • New music
    • Time passes on all lots on the same time - in The Sims 2 it was frozen on the home lot as long as Sims visited community lots. To avoid exploitation of this, Sims could not learn skills, or sleep, in community lots. In The Sims 3, Sims can do almost everything regardless of where they are.
    • Ability to visit other homes
    • Story progression - non-active households evolve during gameplay (can turn on or off)
  • Create-A-Sim features:
  • Traits
  • Moodlets
  • Create-A-Style
  • Ability to adjust lifespan
  • Ability to turn off aging (was did it using cheat window in The Sims 2)
  • New skills (Guitar, Painting and Writing
  • Skill challenges
    • New Upgrades
    • Recipes
    • Sheet music
    • New literary genres
  • "Rabbit holes" - elementary, opaque civic buildings
  • Opportunities
  • Enhanced job features
    • Job performance options
    • Dynamic performance criteria (skills, co-workers, assignments)
    • Raises
  • Basement, basements tool. (was on under foundation deck in The Sims 2)

In expansion packs

The Sims 2 expansion features in The Sims 3

Many features introduced in The Sims 2 expansions appear in The Sims 3 base game, to some extent.

Lost features

These game features were found in The Sims 2 base game but not in The Sims 3.

Lost NPCs

NPCs that were in The Sims 2 base game, but not in The Sims 3.

Lost objects

These objects (with unique interactions) were found in The Sims 2 but not The Sims 3:

Changes in Animations

  • Giving birth
  • Birthday parties / aging up
  • Death
  • Marriage

See also