Today i’ve visited a few official and leading inofficial websites to get the latest news about The Sims 3 (Release: February 20, 2009).

There has been the rumor that we could not build our own houses in The Sims 3 due to the new open neighborhood. This point is not totally clear so i wanted to find more info about that.

Another important question is about the customizable breast-size of female Sims. I often read about it the search requests - and i understand that need ;)

Read here what i have found out about Sims 3 breast-sizes and more…

Is there a building mode in Sims 3?

Okay, i didn’t see a screenshot of the Sims 3 house-building mode yet. To be honest, i don’t know for sure if you can create your own houses.

But i simply cannot imagine that Maxis would steal this most-beloved and important feature from the gamers. Creating a mansion stone by stone always has been one of the most important parts of the whole Sims-series.

Luckily, in the latest “Making of…” video, a guy says something like: “…some players want to build houses, some want to do other things, The Sims 3 has it all…”

Additional neighborhood tool!

On the other hand there won’t be another neighborhood than the standard one in the basic game. That’s a sad fact.

But Maxis want to release an additional tool to create own neighborhoods.

In The Sims 2 you always had to go the long and rocky road to create a landscape with streets and lots by using SimCity 4. Since ages i’m waiting for more in-game neighborhood tools but they never appeared.

So a stand-alone “Body Shop for neighborhoods” is better than nothing.

The Create a Sim Menus!

In the same “Making of…” video you can see a number of menus of the new “Create a Sim” editor. It really seems to work a million times better than the old Sims 2 Family Creator.

I deeply hope that there will be all the import/export/actualize functions inside the game’s CAS and we never need Body Shop anymore to create own outfits.

I’ve made a few screenshots of the menus, look carefully, they tell us something about customizable breast-sizes:

The “Create a Sim” (CAS) Editor looks cool and contains some innovations. But what about the possible body shapes? Let’s see:

Maxis knows why they show us this most interesting menu only with a male sim :)

But anyway, i don’t think that the female version will have more rulers for the breast sizes. It will be pretty much the same thin/heavy/muscle ruler like in the male window.

In the screenshot above you can see a detail preview screen at the down left corner of CAS. There’s also a navigation button (zoom and turn). And well, this picture also shows clearly how flat standard Sims 3 women are :(

Closely looking at a Sims 3 face gives us an idea of the enlarged number of polygons. The mesh is much smoother than in Sims 2.

Sims 3 women remain to be unnatural!

Though these pictures are no absolute proof i do not think that we can change the breast-sizes of Sims 3 females. Every real woman has a different breast size and shape but not in the Sims 3.

I also was looking very carefully to many in-game screenshots but each and every female character was appearing exactly the same to me - at that most attractive body zone.

I don’t understand Maxis’ reasons which may be mostly political. But the game will be marked as “inappropriate for children” anyway, due to some “nudity” and “violence”, so why don’t they add a button and make numerous fans happy?

A new motivation for modders!

We can discuss this topic until the Sims 3 come out on February 20 but i already know:

If we want our Sims 3 to look sexy, maybe super hot or at least really unique (and not in the one-way Maxis wants them) we have to figure out the file-structures again and start modding The Sims 3.

I guess this will happen anyway, though it will be a very long way to go again.

Thanks for reading. If you know something more about the building mode and breast sizing, please write a comment ;)

More Links:

“About The Sims 3 - making of” video clip by Maxis