The Sims 3 (console)

The Sims 3 is a multi-platform game, developed by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DS consoles.

For the first time ever, players can take on up to three friends in the Life Moments Game on the Nintendo Wii, upload and download content on Xbox Live and Playstation Store, including furnishings, houses, and player creations or experience a full life simulation on a handheld with Nintendo DS.

Description
"Create Sims with unique personalities, fulfill their desires, and control their lives within a living neighbourhood that you can customise. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim get lucky with the power of “love connector”, bless them with the power of “age defier” or 'instant beauty' or curse them with an 'instant enemy'. Use these powers wisely, because they may have unexpected results! As you guide your Sims through life, you can complete challenges to unlock additional items, new buildings and landmarks."

Unlock the "Karma System"

 * Wind Pick-up


 * To do the "Wind Pick-up", find a multi batch of "Blue" or "Grey" gems laying on a lot. Make sure there is 8 or 7...6 or 5 may work. Pick them up and put them into your inventory. You need a bad relation with a Sim to test it on. Open up the "Karma Box" (the Karma box shows what Karma Abilities you have unlocked) Then click on it, choose the Bad-Relationed Sim


 * Thunder Burst (Several ways this can be done)


 * To do the "Thunder Burst" (Can cause death), go get a job at "Buisness". When you reach level 8, it shall soon say, "A customer paid you an extra tip! But thier not Simoleons, they are some kind of mysterious gem! They have been placed in your inventory. (Then your Sim will have a "Moment")...Open up the Karma Box, click on "Thunder Burst". If you choose a "Good-Relationed Sim, it will boost thier motives, if you choose "The Neatral-Relationed Sim, it will make a Bad Relation, I you choose an Alreadt Bad-Relationed Sim, they will die"...


 * Ice Blast


 * To do an "Ice Blast", go to a Community lot, and look for snowflakes, they are USUALY near trees or herbs. When you find one, stand under it, then it drops into your hair, then somethings says, "A rare item has been found, it's now placed in your inventory". Open up "Karma Box", and choose whatever Sim. It will not effect relationships.


 * Need more? Goto simsconsole.com/sims3Karma

Trailer
The trailer for the Sims 3 console was released on June 14th, 2010. It shows many of the original features of the Sims, such as cycling around town and changing Sims' appearance. It also shows the newly-added features, such as 'Karma Powers', such as when a female Sim is exposed outside a restaurant, leaving her totally nude with only the blur to cover her, presumably after doing something bad. It also shows that, unlike previous games, players are allowed to build more than one floor onto buildings. Another feature seems to be the ability to have children in the game, unlike its predecessors: (The Sims 2, The Sims 2: Pets, and The Sims 2 Castaway). Also on the Sims 3 for Wii, Sims can have WooHoo, and players can remove the blur, and it also shows features from The Sims 3 PC Expansion pack Ambitions, although we don't know if they will be in the game. The 2nd E3 trailer features the Kris Allen song, "Live Like We're Dying" and shows the possibility of the aging system as the trailer shows Sims life memories of when they were younger as well as one point of the trailer showing the 6 life stages from The Sims 3 as well as an elderly man with the Grim Reaper. The aging system was later confirmed by Sam Player in an interview with Gamespot.

Images
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Videos
Video:Die Sims 3 Nintendo DS - gamescom Hands On

Video:The Sims 3 Wii Trailer

Video:The Sims 3 Nintendo DS Trailer

Video:The Sims 3 on Console trailer

Video:The Sims 3 Console Commercial

Video:The Sims are Alive!: The Sims 3 Console TV Spot

Music

 * 3OH!3 - Double Vision
 * Flo Rida and Jovi - Fresh I Stay
 * School of Seven Bells - Dust Devil
 * Saturday Night - Jessica Mauboy

Reception
Reviews have been generally positive with Gameblog.fr giving 3 stars saying that it will "satisfy fans of the series". Gamespot gave a 7/10 praising the new features given to the console version but critisised the performance and load times. However, Game Informer scored the game with 9/10 on the 360 and PS3, praising The Sims Studio for the console controls and the all new features, commenting that "The console edition of Sims 3 plays just like its PC predecessor". Currently, the PS3 version of the game is scored at 77/100 at Metacritic, while the Xbox 360 version is scored at 76/100. .

Trivia
The idea of karma is taken from the Hindu religion. However, the Western interpretation of the term more accurately describes the Karma system in the game.