Het is de laatste weken een hype aan het worden om online magazines te maken rondom De Sims 3. Zo een magazine is Simtography magazine, Simtography is een site die zich voornamelijk bezig houd met Machinima en ook het Sims International Film Festival (SIFF) organiseert.
Shutterbugs is een onderdeel van Simtography en deze groep Simmers houden zich meer bezig met screens maken van het spel en in het zomer magazine staan handige tips om mooie screens te maken en te bewerken.
The big twist is the addition of karma points and powers. As you play, you earn karma points depending on how you play your character’s life. When enough karma points are gained, karma powers are earned and can drastically change the flow of the game. You can reward your character by granting him or her instant beauty or you can punish your character by bombarding his or her dwelling with a rain of fire. Other karma powers include cosmic curse, get lucky, poltergeist, and epic fail — you can pretty much guess what those do. Karma powers add another fun layer or manipulating life in The Sims 3.
For a franchise that gained its popularity on PCs and hasn’t done as well on consoles, it’s surprising that this version of The Sims 3 has the chance to trump its predecessor. At the very least, it should be on par with the PC game, but I can see many preferring it.
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Now, arguably, this console version isn’t really for already-established PC fans of The Sims 3 (making my griping about the delineation from the standard aesthetic completely moot), but with such a delightfully new evil feature to try out, the market will still be there for those who don’t mind buying the same game twice. And while I’ve been reassured (read: yelled at by Internet commenters) many times that Sims 3 will run “just fine” on a console, that doesn’t change the fact that one of the most appealing features of Sims 3, the ability to mod the game and add tons of purchased and downloaded custom items, will pale in comparison. Don’t know about you folks, but there’s no way I can cram the same amount of content on my PC into a console experience. And there’s no way I’ll be able to put naked people on my Wii, XBOX 360, PS3, or Nintendo DS.
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One problem people will have with this expansion is the limited number of professions. They are a fantastic addition to the experience if you want a Sim who’s a stylist, but players who prefer other careers are forced to miss out. We guess it’s too hard to give the journalist profession exciting gameplay? Then again, if you pursue every profession until you master it, there’s quite a bit of gameplay here. It’s just that not all of it will appeal to everybody. The stylist profession will probably be divisive in that regard, especially when dealing with picky makeover clients.
All told, Ambitions makes a lot of sense as an expansion, and it does a ton of things right. It’s certainly one of the meatier expansions in the franchise’s history in terms of sheer gameplay benefits, but it may segment its audience a bit too much, as not every profession will be enjoyable for every player.
De site waar ik zelf begonnen ben met het brengen van nieuws rondom De Sims sluit jammergenoeg haar deuren.
We kondigen dan ook hierbij aan dat Simparool zal gaan sluiten. Vanaf 1 juli 2010 zal de website niet meer bijgewerkt worden met het laatste Sims nieuws. Verder zullen we de website en, in het bijzonder, het forum online laten en actief blijven onderhouden, omdat we onze eigen community niet in de steek willen laten.
De 4e opdracht in de ‘Sunset Valley zoekt getalenteerde architecten’ uitdaging van Nina en Bakie staat online en dit keer moeten de overgebleven deelnemers 6 strandhuisjes bouwen.
Iedereen die nog mee mag doen heeft nog 2 weken de tijd om te bouwen; volgende week (2 juli) wordt een inlevertopic geopend en de week erop (9 juli) is alweer de deadline.
Een groep Spaanse jongeren wil hier gaan verblijven, maar wel zo dat ze het gevoel hebben dat ze aan de Spaanse kust zijn.
De opdracht is, maak 5 kleine strandhuisjes op één kavel + 1 strandhuisje voor de begeleiding van de jongeren. Ze hebben hun verlanglijstje al gegeven.
Ambitions adds other features, including subtle but helpful UI improvements, entertaining and lucrative new Inventing and Sculpting skills, a real-estate market to invest in, tattooing, plus all the extra clothes, hairstyles, traits and miscellaneous objects we’ve come to expect in a Sims expansion. They’re all uncomplicated additions, but Ambitions really gets what The Sims players love about the game, and does a superb job of giving them more of it.
