The Sims 3 Collector's Edition

Create realistic Sims with distinctive personalities. Or you can populate your Sims’ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. They are complex individuals with unique personalities. Customize everything from floors to flowers, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Choose your Sims’ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottages? Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. The combination of traits you choose—brave, artistic, loner, perfectionist, klepto, romantic, clumsy, paranoid, and much, much more—help shape the behavior of your Sims and how they interact with other Sims. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns giving you endless personalization options. Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?! Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between!

View larger. Extreme home customization. View larger. New create a Sim and personalities. The freedom of The Sims 3 Collector's Edition will inspire you with endless creative possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief. New seamless neighborhoods. ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100. Supported video cards include: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, FX 5950, 6200, 6500, 6600, 6800, 7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8400, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800, GTX 260, GTX 280 (GeForce FX unsupported under Vista); ATI Radeon 9500, 9600, 9800, X300, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3450, 3650, 3850, 3870, 4850, 4870; Intel Extreme Graphics GMA X3x00 series. Will your Sims be thieves, rock stars, world leaders? The choice is yours.

The Sims 3 Collector’s Edition includes Exclusive bonus content:

• The Sims 3 game
• Exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive and Carabiner
• Exclusive European Sports Car Download
• New The Sims 3 theme music
• Prima Tips & Hints Guide
• $10 in SimPoints to shop at The Sims 3 Store

System Requirements: Minimum Specifications:OS: Windows Vista (SP1)/Windows XP (SP2) Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher Processor: Vista - 2.4 GHz P4 or equivalent/XP - 2.0 GHz P4 or equivalentIntel Core Duo Processor RAM: Vista - 1.5 GB/XP - 1GB2GB Disc Drive: 8x DVD ROM or faster8x DVD ROM or faster Hard Drive: Vista & XP - 8 GB or moreAt least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games. View larger. Enjoy classics Sims activities. With all-new quick challenges and rewarding game play, The Sims 3 gives you the freedom to choose whether (or not) to fulfill your Sims' destinies and make their wishes come true. View larger. Key Game Features:

• New Seamless, Living Neighborhood
• • Explore the ever-changing neighborhood—and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, go on a date at the bistro, visit neighbors’ homes, converse with less-than-savory characters in the graveyard and more. Build their homes - design everything from exquisitely furnished dream homes to quaint cottages. Create millions of unique Sims and control their lives. Other: Laptop versions of chipsets above may work, but may run comparatively slower.* This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards. Video Card: 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0. Customize their appearances and personalities. Who knows what might happen?
  • Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
• New Create a Sim Functionality
• • Create any Sim you can imagine with easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customization of facial features, hair color, eye color, and more.
  • Fine tune your Sims’ body shape from thin to curvy to muscular.
• New Personality Traits
• • Create over a million different personalities with traits such as evil, insane, kleptomaniac, romantic, and more.
  • Influence the behaviors of your Sims with the traits you’ve chosen. Then, send your Sims out to explore their ever-changing neighborhood and to meet other Sims in the town center. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
• New Unlimited Customization
• • Everyone can customize everything—design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims’ personalities.
  • Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades.
• New Gameplay That’s Rewarding and Quick
• • Face short and long-term challenges and reap the rewards.
  • Your Sims can pursue random opportunities to get fast cash, get ahead, get even, and more.
  • Choose whether, or not, to fulfill your Sims’ destinies by making their wishes come true.