
If there's one great story in The Sims 3, it's of how the biggest game in the world continues to act like it, expanding in some respects, shrinking in others, but always evolving. And it's about EA learning more and more how to act like the world's biggest developer, the production values, build quality and feature set here being almost overwhelming. There's much to say about its online support, which like Spore's is welcomed into every corner and ranges from machinima to content sharing and blogs. And also the massively enriched character generator, and how it creates a world of different shapes and sizes, if not so much personalities. But with so much movement in a game that means so much to so many, the talking points seem endless. No wonder the Sims have so much to say

With an expensive backlog of DLC that it struggles to run on modern hardware, The Sims 3 deserves revisiting.
They all deserve a remaster, alongside the Sims City games. Sims 3 in particular should be looked at more only cause of how hot it makes PC's.

A voice actor for The Sims spoke about his experiences doing voice work for the game's fictional Simlish language, and how there was no dictionary for them

The Sims franchise has been a part of my life ever since the first game came out. It was one of two games I camped outside of a store for, the other one being Black & White.