Play the Sims 3

This WikiHow teaches how to play Sims 3, a role play gaming centered around the life of a fictional character living in a cyber world. You create the character and act out their story by participating in a series of events. Your life journey might include building a house, sustaining relationships, thriving at work, or finding your inner self by escaping in a world of endless possibilities.

Steps

  1. Create your Sim(s). This is done by customizing their:
    • Name.
    • Gender.
    • Appearance.
    • Personality traits.
    • Lifetime wish. Achieving it is the goal of the game.
  2. Buy a house. This is done by finding an empty lot on the map where you can build one from scratch or spend a little more for it furnished.
    • On the PC version you can hold down ctrl-shift-c and then type in kaching for 1,000 simoleons (Money) or motherlode for 50,000.
  3. Purchase items for your house. Pressing the chair and table button will prompt a menu of purchasable items..
  4. Get a job. This is done by clicking the skyscraper icon, and selecting your desired place of employment.
    • If you can't decide, look at their wishes and it will usually say what they prefer.
  5. Press the blue arrow. It’s next to your Sim’s avatar and will bring you back to the house where you can watch TV, cook a meal, take a shower, sleep, and accomplish other everyday tasks.
  6. Click on the head in the menu tab. Doing so will show the current levels of their mood, hunger, hygiene, and other personal traits.
    • Make sure the diamond is green to keep the sim happy and healthy.

Sims 3 Expansion Packs

  1. Enhance your experience by purchasing the following:
    • World Adventures: Your Sims can travel on vacations and explore adventures.
    • Ambitions: Sims have the opportunity to a wider range of careers, such as a tattoo artist or a firefighter.
    • Late Night: Clubbing and lounges are introduced in the game, as well as celebrities and vampires.
    • Generations: Along with the standard age groups (baby, child, teen, young adult, adult, and elderly), your Sims can now have themes and different abilities to each own.
    • Pets: Unlike Sims 2, Sims 3 now offers horses alongside dogs and cats. You can control the pets in this extension game. In the Sims 2, only AI players can control pets but in the sims 3 you have the ability to play as them.
    • Showtime: This extension allows Sims to become magicians, singers, DJs, and acrobats.
    • Supernatural: Sims have the opportunity to be or change into a zombie, an updated version of a vampire, fairy, witch, or werewolf. If a person has both Showtime and Supernatural installed, the option of a genie appears.
    • Seasons: This extension allows Sims to enjoy all four seasons throughout the game. Updated from Sims 2: Seasons, Sims can experience sunburns, holiday festivals, etc. In the Autumn, Sims can woohoo in the leaves and in igloos during the winter.
    • University Life: This extension lets Sims go to college and earn a degree. The campus is similar to what you will find in World Adventures, the world freezes the main games time while letting time go on in your world. The campus is like normal life only you have studying and classes to worry about.
    • Island Paradise: Island Paradise is similar to World Adventures. You travel around on boats, go diving, live on house boats, and run resorts.
    • Into the Future: Take your sims into the future to learn new skills!

Tips

  • You might also have to have a good relationship with your boss or coworkers. If you want to increase your relationship quality with your boss and coworkers, throw a party with them.
  • You might have to increase a certain skill in your Sims job. To find this out, click the career tab. It shows what level you need to be. If you want your work schedule, click on "Career".
  • Don't rely on moodlets to tell you when your Sims need something. It would be easier to check your Sim's needs frequently. You could do this before going to bed, before going to school or work, or before you visit a house or community lot.
  • Your Sim's traits open that Sim to a whole world of possibility and new actions. For example, Kleptomaniacs can steal things(only three a day) and while reading a newspaper, Frugal Sims can clip coupons to save money. You even get a positive moodlet for it.
  • Update the game regularly. Updating is free and you will be alerted once you start the game if an update is available. Updates can give you lots more things, such as downloadable content, and more ways to change your Sims. As of 2011, you can now add zodiac signs for your Sims and many more options.
  • Make sure to lock your front or back door in case of a robbery. Also be sure to turn off the ovens and fireplaces before going to bed.

Warnings

  • Don't leave your game running while you aren't playing without pausing the time. Even on free will, Sims have a tendency to not pay the bills when they come.
  • Don't try to kill your Sims! It is mean-spirited.
  • Try not to put poor character traits; if you do, AI sims (sims that you do not control) can give your sim(s) bad luck.

Things You'll Need

  • The Sims 3
  • A computer or laptop
*Xbox 360, PS3, Phone, Tablet or DS (optional)

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