It's been a long time since we got any information about Sims 3. So i decided to take a look at what we have and digg a bit deeper. Looking at those screenshots we were able to get some further details about upcoming part 3 of the best-selling series.

 

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There's a nice article on gamesindustry.biz about the development process of Sims 3. It describes some of the prototypes the team used to design the game. It turns out that they actually had the game running in 2D engine before even 3D engine was implemented. Another interesting information is that simulation will run on two different levels. High level will simulate how people meet other people, get married, get rich and eventually die.