1. New - Explore a Seamless, Living Neighborhood
   Your Sims can roam throughout their neighborhood, visit neighbors’ homes, and explore the surroundings. They can stroll downtown to hang out with friends, meet someone new at the park, or run into colleagues on the street. If your Sims are in the right place at the right time, who knows what might happen?
2. New Create a Sim:  New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims characters. Determine your Sims’ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular—and everything in between! Choose your Sims’ facial features, their skin tone, hair color and style, eye shape and color, and select their clothing and accessories.
3. New Personality Traits System: Create realistic Sims characters with distinctive personalities. Select from dozens of personality traits and combine them in fun ways. 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 character and how they interact with other Sims characters. They are complex individuals with unique personalities who can now rise above their basic set of everyday needs.
4. New Customize Everything
   Build your dream house and design the ultimate Sims 3 home. Customize everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wallpaper to window shades. It’s fun and easy to change colors and patterns, giving you endless personalization options. Or you can choose to easily populate your Sims 3 neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes, or cozy cottages ?
5. New Gameplay
   The Sims 3 features new gameplay that’s rewarding and quick to play. There’s more to your Sims’ lives in The Sims 3. Enjoy the challenge of short-term and long-term goals and then reap the rewards!

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Here’s the latest news while we patiently wait for the party to start:

Lots of questions answered in this Q&A session(Gamershell)

Electronic Arts released a Q&A for The Sims 3, the next installment in The Sims series in the works at Electronic Arts Redwood Shores and scheduled for February 20, 2009. The Sims 3 allows you to immerse your unique Sims in an open living neighborhood right outside their door. The initial feature-set unveiled includes the new seamless, open neighborhood, new Create A Sim, new realistic personalities and new unlimited customization…

The Sims 3 Character Screenshots (Cinemablend)

Well, there’s no reason to beat around the bush. The main reason why the character screenshots are completely underwhelming is because it’s only one character and two screenshots of said character. Now look here, there’s no reason to get upset. I tried to warn you. Nevertheless, you can at least see that the details in the character designs and textures have come a long way. Sort of. Polygons are no longer visible in the 3D models, but the lighting leaves the eye wanting…

New Create A Sim—Create Any Sim You Can Imagine (computergames.ro)

In addition to the open, living neighborhood, the all-new Create-a-Sim interface will feature easy-to-use design tools that allow you to make truly detailed Sims that are more realistic than ever. Create-a-Sim gives you the incredible freedom to customize just about any Sim you can imagine. From thin to full-figured to muscular—everything in between and even the extreme! In addition to determining your Sims character body shape and size, you will also be able to fine-tune every feature on their faces, customize their hair style and select their skin tone, all from a vast selection of options. With so many choices to choose from, it is fun to create a more realistic Sims 3 character that looks like you, someone you want to look like, or even a famous personality…

Massive Sims 3 Q&A Tells All (kotaku)

Do you have questions about The Sims 3? Well EA has just unleashed a massive amount of answers in the form a a 30-question Sims 3 FAQ document that covers everything from the new Sims 3 character personality system to what kind of parties your sims can participate in. Of course the big question on all major fans of the series is whether or not The Sims 2 expansion they spent hundreds of dollars on would be hitting the trash bin. You might be needing a bigger bin…