Newcomers and veterans alike should have no problem jumping in and enjoying the thrill of building a home, a family, and eventually a career in the world.Īnyone familiar with The Sims has a general idea of what to expect from a game in the series. The menus are easy to navigate and actions are as easy as selecting a sim and choosing an option from the HUD. Using the right analog stick to navigate the “cursor”, which is actually a holographic marker used for selection, and the left for zooming and panning, players will find that the PS3 version of The Sims 3 is almost as enjoyable as its PC counterpart. To anyone’s surprise, The Sims 3 operates in a brilliant fashion on the PlayStation 3 with the DualShock 3.
Using the plug and play capabilities of the PS3, developers could easily implement keyboard-and-mouse compatibility similar to Unreal Tournament 3 from 2007 for those who lack the means to run a game on their PC and rely on their consoles, but EA decided to give this option a shrug. This is because the game is played from an aerial, isometric perspective (albeit more zoomed than an RTS). First and foremost, like the real-time strategy genre, The Sims games are best experienced on a PC along with a traditional keyboard-and-mouse combination setup for input.