RELEASE 2009 DEVELOPER Maxis PUBLISHER Electronic Arts LINK bit.ly/3vtE1b4
For some, The Sims series is a wonderful sandbox simulation in which wacky fake people survive a gauntlet of unlikely house fires or where approximations of school crushes become spouses. For me, it’s always been about the building. I’ve removed a few pool ladders in my day, but I’ve rarely given Live Mode the time of day since the original The Sims. It’s always been about the architecture – learning to create floating houses tethered by staircases or designing mansions and realising I don’t know what kinds of rooms mansions have. Piano rooms are a thing, right?
I happened to skip over The Sims 3 – I was leaving for university and was really quite enamoured with MMOs when it launched – and now that I’ve come back to it I’ve realised that I missed out on the best building game in the entire series. The Sims 3 is bliss for a builder like me.
