

If you decide to make two Sims as a couple you can even see what their kids would look like. There are hundreds of different eye, nose, chin, ear, skin color combos available for your Sims, and you can pretty much sculpt a likeness of anyone in the world. If you play EA's sports titles, which have long allowed for customizable players, you'll recognize some of the facial construction features in Sims 3. The same control of the minutiae is available when you're molding your Sim's face. If the 50 or so hairstyles in the game aren't enough for you, you can download more. I gave my Sim an Adam Lambert–style haircut and a smoking jacket. You get a palette of hair-color options, and you can actually use the Create-A-Style tool to mix a color of your own and use that as a hair color. The thing I first noticed was the new slider for your Sim's body type, which can be varying degrees of thin, muscular, or fat. If you don't want to spend hours (my first Sim took me 10 minutes to create, but you easily could take far longer), you can choose Random or Pre-Made Sims. The game begins with Create-A-Sim, where you can control every aspect of your Sim's appearance. The PC game mechanics have been changed to make it easier to customize your environments and surroundings, giving users millions of ways to create the world of their choice. The Sims themselves aren't the only thing overhauled in this release, either. The new Sims have personalities, goals, and unique body types and hairstyles. No longer are the Sims ($49.99 for PC and Mac $9.99 iPhone or iPod touch) just digital action figures in a big dollhouse. In The Sims 3, the Sims series has finally grown up.

You have to pay for cool downloadable items once your initial free online points run out.Items from the previous expansion packs not included in this version.

