Categorie: De Sims 3 Consoles en Handhelds

De Sims 3 voor Nintendo 3DS wordt niet zo goed ontvangen, ook GamePro geeft het spel slechts een 1,5 van de 5. Misschien is het toch niet zo slim van EA geweest om dit spel juist als launch titel uit te brengen.

It’s not at all surprising to play a franchise launch game that lacks polish and precision, but The Sims 3 comes off as careless — especially for a series with such strong cultural and consumer cachet. Even the much cheaper iPhone version offers a richer portable take on the series, and that came out in 2009! Whether EA overshot the capabilities of the 3DS or simply didn’t try to optimize The Sims 3 for the platform, this markedly poor experience is a shadow of what we’ve come to expect from the series and a bleak way to celebrate the purchase of Nintendo’s new hardware.

| GamePro: The Sims 3 for Nintendo 3DS review |

I’ve said a lot of negative things so far about this game. I’m still not done. If you still plan on getting this game or have an interest in it, let me warn you that everything you do in the game is done on the touch screen. The buttons are used for almost nothing for the game. You instead have to rely on your stylus to select items/furniture/Sims/the menu/etc. from an upwards-looking down perspective. The top screen is there only for eye candy to see what you’re Sim is doing. The problem with this design is that the touch screen isn’t all that big. On this one screen are your menus, your stats, time…everything is there. It feels cramped. Combine this with the fact that the menu system is annoying to use (and oddly designed), it’s hard to not get frustrating.

| IGN: Play with (A Limited) Life |

De menu’s zijn logisch ingedeeld en een korte tutorial wijst je op de functie van elke knop. Dat is dus het probleem niet. We vonden het echter lastig dat sommige knoppen nogal klein waren. Als we dan met enig precisiewerk het juiste menu openkregen, stootten we af en toe op wat lelijke pixels. Op het bovenste – grotere – scherm niets daarvan, maar onderaan deden die problemen zich wel voor. Ook kregen we de indruk dat men misschien té veel van de oorspronkelijke Sims in deze miniatuurversie probeerde te stoppen.

| Game: De Sims 3 voor Nintendo 3DS review |

The karma points system from the console game has made it onto the 3DS, although the number of rewards and punishments available to spend on your Sim is massively reduced to a grand total of three karmic events: Earthquake, Electrocution, and Butterflies. It’s implemented with the platform in mind – for instance to reward your Sim with a gust of butterflies you blow into the microphone – but because the punish/reward system isn’t a featured attraction like it is on consoles the result feels more like an attempt to pack in the relevant features in the most minimalist way possible.

| VideoGamer: The Sims 3 Review for 3DS |