Written by Paperpin
Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:42
As we all know, GamesCom is taking place in Cologne, Germany, and yesterday, EA showed The Sims 3 Pets (both for PC/Mac and console). A lot of information and pictures have been published during the last 24 hours, and probably even more will be released until Sunday. We have decided to create this articles in order to sum up the most interesting details and will keep updating if and when necessary.
Update 1: GamesCom video by SimFans added! Update 2: New details about collections! Update 3: New details about the console version! Update 4: New details from Twitter! Update 5: new links, pictures (Appaloosa Plans and buy mode) and some video added! Update 6: new info and videos! Update 7: new console information! Update 8: new details about horses and unicorns! Update 9: puppies and CAP! Update 10: new pictures from SimFans! Update 11: new CAP video from SimFans! Update 12: new video interview and pictures! Update 13: new links added to interview, preview and pictures! Update 14: Full SimFans preview (German only)
Enjoy!
Full preview by SimFans
SimFans published their full preview of The Sims 3 Pets after GamesCom. You can find the article here (German only).
More pictures, previews and interviews
New info
Name generator (we think similar to The Sims Medieval one) - sure it works for pets creation, not sure about rename sim and so.
SimFans interview to Graham Nardone and Aaron Conners
EA France interview to producers
New CAP video by SimFans: cats and dogs
New pictures by SimFans
SimFans has published a new gallery of pictures about "minor" pets. You can find it here!
Puppies and CAP
It is NOT true that Pets will only have one baby.
Puppies and kittens have stumpy legs… They do need some help from Sims getting up and down stairs. Horses don’t use the stairs at all – they’re much better off staying outside and in their new barns
Pets can have different tails.
You an adjust neck with slider. Has many different sliders for ears, back, and belly. Voice level can be adjusted to be quieter or louder.
Horses and unicorns
Horses can Train themselves, but it’s much better when a Sim is helping train them!
You can build a barn in any shape or size you please – in most situations though, each horse will need their own box stall to live in.
Horses can have braided tails.
Unicorns can teleport around the world, not just run/walk like a horse.
Unicorns can breed but not with normal horses. Must be another unicorn.
Unicorns can light fires – horn turns orange.
New console details
There is a whole new, unique neighborhood in The Sims 3 Pets on consoles and it's called Sugarmaple Coasts. It has supernatural elements, graveyards and a lot of mystery in it.
Apparently pets will be able to stick around for a few more days after they have died, as pet ghosts! And just so you know, pets in the consoles games can only die of old age. If Sims use the karma power called Divine Intervention they can bring back a beloved pet who has recently died. But you have only got a few days to bring them back.Some other karma powers that have been mentioned, some of these are positive, some are negative, are Cast Curse, Feral Possession and Meteor Strike.
In the version for Xbox you can use Kinect, so you can give commands with your voice, to control the Sims and pets, and basically use the basic UI navigation with your voice.
New details from Twitter
There is a Advanced Mode for the Create a Pet mode
You can play with a laser pointer for playing with cats
The unicorns are bright and shining.
You can add unicorns on your households.
Sims up to teenagers can riding with horses
The pets only die by old age.
Pets dont have lifetime wishes
No new careers for Sims.
You can buy pets in several ways. But not at the pet shop which is included in the deluxe version. It’s just for buying accessories.
There is wildlife like raccoons and deers in the game, but you can’t add them to your households.
Cats do not learn tricks, but dogs do. Cats can learn to hunt.
Pets have a different route of transport and do not go into a Sim’s vehicle.
Traits for pets can be encouraged and discouraged
New lifetime wishes for sims concerning pets, not for pets themselves. They do have memories though
You can change sims into pets and vice versa with karma powers
Pets can trap ghosts and catch spirits
Even ghosts can play with pets
Now showing tricks such as play deadIf pets die there are pets ghosts, and you can take them back to life with karma powers
Pets function like normal sims. So they’re fully controllable
Console Gameplay
PS3
(dovete inserire come data di nascita 1-1-1990 e il video dovrebbe funzionare)
Nintendo 3DS
Collections
SimFans announced that Pets will bring back collections. With the game or its pre-release patch, you will be able to create your own buymode collections, choosing an icon and a name for each folder!
Appaloosa Plains
As announced yesterday, the new neighborhood introduced with The Sims 3 Pets will be called Appaloosa Plains and it's a country/ranch-styled place surrounded by mountains and a river. It's quite different from what we are used to, and we're curious to see it ourselves! Due to this new style, every community lot was created from scratch (as it happened for Riverview): school, hospital, theater, city hall etc., as well as the new pet-related venues. SimFans has published a great gallery of pictures (about 20) of some of the new town's features, pet tombstones included. You can find them here. Also SimsExchange.de has published some new screenshots of Appaloosa Plains, they are 23 and you can watch them here >>.
Good news about Pets has been announced by SimTimes: the household limit has been increased to 10 member per unit, with a maximum of 8 Sims and 6 pets. This means that as long as you don't exceed this limit, you can create the household you like (4 Sims + 6 pets, 8 Sims + 2 pets, 5 Sims + 5 pets and so on). Of course, this applies only to playable pets (cats, dogs, horses): you can have as many non-controllable pets (rodents, turtles, etc) as you can handle! In this regard, here's a couple of turtle screenshots:
Pictures:SimsFans (bottom page, you also watch a gnomes' screenshoot) - SimsFans 2 As we told on a previus article, there will be a new food truck, this time is an icecream truck. It looks similar to the Late Night's food truck, but we need to "grab" the picture to SimFans... watch the icecream on the Sim hand!! It's freezer bunny!!
As for now, it's all folks! We'll update with any new details asap!
Last Updated on Thursday, 25 August 2011 14:32
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