To everyone who has been waiting for me to blog – here it is! For the past few days I’ve been kind of engrossed in Sims 3. You know the kind of feeling, you just want to go home, to play the game you have been waiting all day to play. And since I’m relatively free when I’m home, and a great fan of the Sims series, I just had to play.

Prepare to be disappointed.

Let’s start with the good…

Sims 3 for iPhone review:

Crazy enough, since I had two kinds of Sims 3 to amuse me. I actually liked the iPhone version more. I was very impressed with EA’s selection of mobile games, ever since I bought the Monopoly World Edition and have been engrossed it in ever since. And since then, I’ve spent countless of hours stuck on Lemonade Tycoon, and attempted to try SimCity (thought this one was too complicated for an iPhone game).

Sims 3 starts out light years ahead of Sims 2 for the mobile which I’ve played on my brother’s Nokia. What on earth was that anyway? Here you really get a pared down version of Sims 3. Although it was not as great as you would expect for a PC version, but its nice to play on the train / bus.

Why? You get nice graphics you can turn / twist / zoom. The graphics really play a massive role in determining how nice this all turns out. And there is a range of turns your sims can do now to other sims. Instead of just a watered down version of the Sims 3, there is a now a goal system where you can complete different tasks in order to continue with the game. I heard you can even WooHoo.

Cost: 7.99EUR – Probably the most I’ve ever spent on an iPhone App

Sims 3 for Mac review:

I don’t really get this. There were nice things and bad things, but overall my reaction is more to a bad than a good.

Why? Firstly, Sims 3 is like just a step better than Sims 2 in terms of loading and land exploration. You can now see the entire town, including your neighbours and community lots. Except that you cannot go in! However, since it dispenses with the irritating loading screens you still get with the Sims 3 for iPhone, the whole game is more streamline in general. Each Sim also has personality traits now, which is very nice because you can leave them alone and they will grow up and deal with it, including the entire neighborhood. I tried to neglect a few Sims in order to kill them, but that didn’t work out. I’m a closet sadist I think.

However, its an entirely let down by the amount of items available. There’s a nice car here and there, but otherwise, you get less than half of the items available in Sims 2, and there is a store where you can buy items which if you buy sets and all, eventually turn out to be really expensive! Furthermore I felt it lacked alot of fun depth toys – like magic kits, pets, and so on.

Cost: 49.95USD for a downloadable version on GameTreeOnline.com

Seriously… I’m not very happy with this release of Sims 3. I like certain things, and it coming closer to realism. But it seems to be a atheistic upgrade from Sims 2, minus all the nice fun stuff which made Sims great. Its definitely not the upgrade from Sims to Sims 2, thats for sure. Still, I’m going to continue playing and if there are super cool things happening, I’ll definitely update it. In the meantime, I say, buy it only if you are a great fan, if not stick to Sims 2.