EA Reveals Promised The Sims 3 Details News

As promised in a recent website splash page, EA has today revealed the first details on the 2009 scheduled The Sims 3.

Due for release on PC, The Sims 3 is being prepped as the flagship title for Electronic Arts' recently rearranged The Sims label, and will feature extensive customisation options for a player's Sims. Body shape, facial features, skin tone, and a new proprietary 'Realistic Personality System' (allowing for players to mix up to five personality traits in each Sim) are just some of the new abilities open for fans of the life-sim title.

Set in a new open-world neighbourhood filled with amenities and buildings, The Sims 3 is due to include new storytelling techniques thanks to player's Sims meeting up with new acquaintances and social interactions.

"In The Sims 3, Sims can go beyond the boundaries of their home lot, and immerse themselves in an open, living neighbourhood, interacting with other Sims using our new deeper personality system," said Rod Humble, Head of The Sims Studio. "It is this type of open-ended gameplay that inspires endless creative possibilities. In addition the new goals and rewards systems will give players of all kinds from core gamers to storytellers the ability to enjoy long-term gameplay."

"The new engine and technologies in The Sims 3 are designed to unleash the player's imagination with realistic looking Sims who have distinct personalities and a seamless living neighborhood for them to discover," added Ben Bell, Executive Producer on The Sims 3. "Players are going to be thrilled by the level of realism in The Sims 3!"