

But I would advise those people to stick with it, because the Sims 3 has plenty of rewarding gameplay under its hood. In fact, I would venture say that big fans of the console iterations may even be turned off by the completely open world at first. If you are used to jumping directly into the creation mode, getting a job, and spending your entire sim life at your house, the switch to the completely open world is jarring at first. The game basically throws you into the open world, with only a few pop-up tutorials letting you know how to move around your house and change modes to get you started.

If you really liked The Sims 2 (or any of its expansions) on consoles and like your simulation-style games extremely linear, then The Sims 3 will bewilder you at first. However, with the Sims 3 on consoles, console owners will finally be able to experience The Sims in its true form. While the console offerings were always fun on a base level, they never had the scope of the PC version and players never got to experience the true freedom that came from the open world gameplay that was the PC's hallmark. However, console versions have always been completely different, following a single sim through a linear progression of goal-oriented events. The PC versions have always featured open-world, infinitely expandable, and customizable utopias where you could pluck in Sims and have fun in the game's sandbox-style world.

Throughout the series' history, The Sims has had two very different (and not necessarily equal) versions: console and PC.
