Dec 2008

The freedom of 'The Sims 3' will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. The game allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighbourhood where they can roam and explore all new surroundings, customize your Sims appearance and personality and enjoy quick and rewarding gameplay.

The neighbourhood is alive and constantly evolving so what happens to a Sim on one side of the neighbourhood could impact your Sims on the other side of town! If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?

- Seamless, Open Neighbourhood! A brand new engine allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighbourhood, that is alive and constantly evolving, where they can roam and explore all new surroundings

- Create-A-Sim: The new feature is easy-to-use and more powerful than ever, letting you fine-tune every aspect of your Sims face and determine much more to make lifelike Sims

- Unique Personalities: You have the option to select from dozens of personality traits and combine up to five traits to create an endless number of truly diverse individuals

- Unlimited Customization: You can customize everything; 'The Sims 3' allows for infinite possibilities to design the interior and exterior of your Sims surroundings

- Quick and Rewarding Gameplay: Based on personality traits, skills and career choices, your Sims have short and long term Wishes that provide constant fun challenges, things to do and achieve. You have the ultimate freedom to choose whether to fulfil their destiny, giving them lifetime happiness and rewards or not!

FOR WINDOWS XP
- Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
- 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 1 GB RAM
- At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
- 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
- Windows Vista (Service Pack 1)
- 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
- 1.5 GB RAM
- At least 6.5 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content
- 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets, the game requires at least:
- Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA X3000 or above.
- 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
- 0.5 GB additional RAM

SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS
NVIDIA GeForce series:
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800,
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280

ATI Radeon series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870,
4850, 4870

Intel® Extreme Graphics
GMA X3x00 series