Comparison between The Sims 2 and The Sims 3: Difference between revisions
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These game features were found in The Sims 2 base game but not in The Sims 3. |
These game features were found in The Sims 2 base game but not in The Sims 3. |
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* [[Cleaning]] skill |
* [[Cleaning]] skill - much because of the neat and slob sim traits |
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* [[Creativity]] skill - replaced by [[Guitar skill]], [[Painting]] and [[Writing]] |
* [[Creativity]] skill - replaced by [[Guitar skill]], [[Painting]] and [[Writing]] |
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* [[Aspiration]] - replaced by [[lifetime happiness]] |
* [[Aspiration]] - replaced by [[lifetime happiness]] |
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Revision as of 12:48, 17 July 2009
The Sims 3 is based on The Sims original game and The Sims 2 original game, and contains most features of these.
Completely new features
These features have not existed in any Sims game before:
- Seamless neighborhood
- Bicycles
- Time passes on all lots on the same time - in The Sims 2 it was frozen on the home lot as long as Sims visited community lots. To avoid exploitation of this, Sims could not learn skills, or sleep, in community lots. In The Sims 3, Sims can do almost everything regardless of where they are.
- Ability to visit other homes
- Story progression - non-active households evolve during gameplay
- Create-A-Sim features:
- Continuous body shapes (muscularity/obesity) and skin colors
- Footwear
- Traits
- Moodlets
- Ability to adjust lifespan or turn off aging
- New skills (Guitar, Painting, Writing) and challenges
- "Rabbit holes" - elementary, opaque civic buildings
- Opportunities
- Enhanced job features
- Job performance options
- Raises
The Sims 2 expansion features in The Sims 3
Many features introduced in The Sims 2 expansions appear in The Sims 3 base game, to some extent.
- Young adults (University) - a regular life stage
- Mobile phones (University) - free for each Sim
- Guitar (University) - a portable acoustic guitar
- Treadmill (University)
- Private cars (Nightlife)
- Personal inventory (Nightlife) - now limited to vehicles and portable objects
- Fish tanks (Pets) - can be used for caught fish
- Gardening (Seasons) - expanded
- Fishing (Seasons) - expanded
- Storing and eating leftovers (Seasons)
- Jewelry (Bon Voyage) - though many kinds of jewelry (such as face piercings) are left out
- Walking between lots (Bon Voyage)
- Activity table (Free Time) - though Toddlers cannot gain skills anymore
- Bug catching (Free Time)
- Ceilings (Apartment Life)
- Toothbrushing (Apartment Life)
- Playground structures (Apartment Life)
Lost features
These game features were found in The Sims 2 base game but not in The Sims 3.
- Cleaning skill - much because of the neat and slob sim traits
- Creativity skill - replaced by Guitar skill, Painting and Writing
- Aspiration - replaced by lifetime happiness
- Slacker career
- Fears
- Underwear styles - though underwear can be used as the pajamas style
- Private school
- Visible retail stores - replaced by "rabbit holes"
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Interests
- Memories
- Aliens, alien abduction, alien pregnancy
- Environment and comfort needs (replaced by moodlets)
- The ability to create new neighborhoods
- Illness
- Inheritance
- Photo album
- The need to buy clothes-your sims already have everything.
Lost NPCs
Lost objects
These objects (with unique interactions) were found in The Sims 2 but not The Sims 3:
- Aspiration rewards - replaced by lifetime happiness rewards
- Career reward objects (sandbag, hydroponic garden, obstacle course etc)
- Piano - replaced by Guitar
- Springboard - though pools remain
- Hot tub
- Retail objects - cash register, shelves etc
- Farstar e3 Telescope - the simple telescope remains
- Specialised weight machines - the game now has only one combined weight machine.
- Magazines - though specialized books exist
- Wedding arch