The game is lame,
it dosen't have 1/2 the depth of the sims 2 (even before all it's expansions), I don't mind the graphics, but they do look... different, I haven't had any problems with Crashing, or it running/loading slow. but it's just dosen't have that "coolness" factor... things happen to fast, if I cook a meal for a household, I'm done and washing the plates before the rest of the family has even started (so dinner conversations are rare and hard to co-ordinate, I seem to be able to learn skills with too little effort, and in just one session I have almost maxxed out my skills. No weather, No pets, No Rejuve Elixir (yes you can turn off aging.. but what I want the world to age around my sim, and be kinda immortal, can't do that here, NO Hobbies (like building robots in Sims 2). When you reach your lifetime aspiration that's it.. can't get a new one. And a silly thing that really bothers me, I can't turn off the carpool, so if I don't specifically click my vehicle and "go to work" I end up in the car pool, if you do drive to work the %^&*ING carpool shows up anyway and sits infront of the empty house honking away for an hour... stupid... the ONLY redeeming feature is the Universal neighborhood (no more loading between commercial lots and such)... to bad once you get to a commercial lot there is no INSIDE, not much to do... stupid stupid...

I AM SO GLAD I PIRATED THIS GAME, didn't pay a cent for it... no one should for this crap.

I do have legit copys of Sims 2 and expansion packs... they are well worth it... and I've gone back to them.

DON'T buy this, wait and see if EA will "make it better"

Me and my sister were so excited about finally etting the Sims 3. Well my sister was, it's her game.My mom was seriously pissed off that it cost so much money, but we had faith that it was worth the full sixty dollars. SO we came home to install it on my brand new Windows Vista, and it took like a whole freakin' hour! AS we continued to explore the games we were seriously dissapionted.
It freezes, all the time. Your in the middle of doing something, but then it freezes and either the computer restarts it'ss elf or your screwed. SO many complications, and for what? You can't do fucking anything! All you can really do is wow create cool facial features, patterns, and colors.But what the fuck is with the hair? There is like five hairstyles, and they all suck! I mean the only thing that you can actually enjoy doing is creating Sims, but when that's over you can't do anything!
You can't go anywhere! You can't even create a decent community lot anymore! There are NO nightclubs whatsoever. WHat do you mean party? There are NO parties! The only community lots you can make are pools, lakjes, and fucking lame ass parks! And there are no Sims, anywhere!!! I mena they want to meet new people, but their is no new people, unless, they are already premade Sims, in the neghborhood.There are no places for the Sims, to hang out and party. ANd this curfew thing, is driving a wall up my ass!
Creating community lots is the WORST! You can't create anything! WHat happened to the vampires? What happened to nightclubs? You can't even go inside the fucking venues, and control you SIms. You have to IMAGINE. You have to imagine.
SIms 2 was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better! It was actually fun. WOw you couldn't create custom content in the actual game, but you could download things for free, and get cool meshes, and do cheets, and have FUN.You could go downtown get bitten by a vampire lady, make love at community lots, bend the rules, be wild. That was personality, those were real traits. But now you are limited, to a fucking list of traits, that don't mean shit.
FUck this game is awful, just don't buy it! If you don't own SIms, get SIms 2 Double Deluxe, it's only $19.99. Cheap, but way better than $59.99 of bullshit. I mean the complaining NEVER ends.

Bought the game, spent $55.00.
Game will not install, contacted EA and all they keep telling me if to do
the things they suggest. well i have done them over and over and keep getting the CRC error box.
The store where I bought it will not exchange it anymore (6 times)
My computer meets all the system requirements.
There are MANY people with the same problem. How can we all have the same problem, when we all have
different computers.
EA is giving us the runaround

I went and bought The Sims 3 and it sucks. Wow you can make really cool people, but that's it...what about different lots where you can build your own houses? All this game is...is boring. I am a huge Sims fan, but Sims 2 was way better than this crap. All the game does is load really f***ing slow, or freeze. There are soo many problems with this game that you can't even save anything...the game will freeze and delete everything you just did, so you have to do it all over again.
I just bought the game 2 days ago, and I have had to rebuild and re-do everything over 6 times...it's ridiculous. It's not my computer, because I deleted everything and had my computer checked for viruses before hand just so it wouldn't mess up...but it did. If you like the Sims, stick to the old versions...Because this one is f***ing lame and boring and there is not one thing fun about it. Thank you for your time!!!