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Hey there everyone! Yesterday, I went and picked up The Sims 3 from EB Games at Box Hill! Now, everyone who hangs out with me (aka Pyro, Timbo, Drifty, Smiley and JAL) knows i was UBER excited about this game and was excited on Thursday 4th July.

Okay, so i went to pick it up and when i was passing one of the stops at the bus terminal, Timbo was there! I walked up and squealed for joy as I had the game. Timbo covered his ears and i showed him the cover, and then left for home!

Once i got in I installed the game on my PC and it took about half an hour, which isn’t too bad. Once installed i updated Direct X etc. But, once in the game troubles started to arrise.

The create a sim feature was pretty good as you can change the colour and/or colour of the clothes which is new. Hair colour is better than ever as you can choose the base colour, root colour, highlight colour and tip colour. This gives sims a more unique look. But, the graphics were just as good as sims 2, the predecessor of the game.

Once family was created, i moved them into a nice one story home. But, this was where problems arose. The graphics are not half as good as sims 2, and the people look more like they did in sims 1. This was a major disappointment. The game ran slowly and lagged a fair bit.

I thought it was the PC at first. So last night I installed it on (please forgive me hat and other haterss) the MacBook, as it is formatted for both. The same thing (even worse) happened on the mac. The buildings were white, and in create a sim the sim was jet black.

I finally hopped on the internet this morning and searched for about half and hour-forty five mins and found a question on Yahoo! Answers. Some one asked about that problem, and others have had the same problem, even with brand new PCs and MACS.

So, later today i am returning it and getting a full refund. Sorry Timbo, but you can’t play it over here now  :(

My advice, stick with sims 2