The Sims™ 3 Collector's Edition

The Sims™ 3 Collector’s Edition includes The Sims 3 and bonus content – exclusive 2 GB Plumbob USB drive, European Sports Car Download & more!

• NEW! SEAMLESS, LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD
  • Explore the ever-changing neighbourhood — and take your Sims to meet friends in the park, discuss fine art at the gallery, visit neighbours' homes, converse with less-than-savoury characters in the graveyard and more! Who knows what might happen?
  • Admire the natural beauty of the beach, the mountains, and more.
• NEW! CREATE A SIM
  • Create any Sim you can imagine with new easy-to-use design tools that allow for unlimited customisation of facial features, hair colour, eye colour, and more.
  • Fine tune your Sims' body shape from thin to full-figured to muscular.
• NEW! PERSONALITY TRAITS
  • Select up to five individual personality traits such as brave, artistic, kleptomaniac, clumsy, paranoid, and romantic, to create an endless number of truly diverse Sims.
  • Influence the behaviours of your Sims with the traits you've chosen. Will you create a neurotic romantic with a heart of gold, or a geeky super-genius with an evil streak?
• NEW! UNLIMITED CUSTOMISATION
  • Everyone can customise everything — design and build your dream house and decorate it to fit your Sims' personalities.
  • Customise everything from floors to décor, shirts to sofas, wall-paper to window shades.
• NEW! GAMEPLAY THAT'S REWARDING AND QUICK
  • Enjoy the challenge of fulfilling your Sims short- and long-term goals 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. Your Sims can skyrocket from Latrine Cleaner to Astronaut, from Rabid Fan to Sports Legend, or even from Roadie to Rock Star!
• NEW! COMMUNITY TO SHARE & CONNECT
  • Download free & exclusive new content to enhance your game including new Sims, houses, furniture and more.
  • Make your own movies & show them to the world.
  • Share your own Sims, houses & more with anyone.

Key Online Elements Include:

• The Sims 3 Store: Included with purchase of the game is £6 worth of SimPoints, which players receive when they first register their game online at TheSims3.com. They can use their SimPoints towards downloading exclusive in-game items from The Sims 3 Store to customise their game. For additional items, players can purchase bundles of 500, 1000 and 2000 SimPoints in $USD, EUR, GBP and other major international currencies using a variety of payment methods including international and national credit cards, PayPal, and EA cash cards (in North America only). Whether it’s the must-have new outfit or the latest style of plaid furniture, players have the opportunity to further customize and populate their Sims world with additional items.

• Game Launcher: The Game Launcher is the key entry point for players into TheSims3.com community. This hub page connects players to both the Store and the Exchange, and provides them with news and information about game updates. Players can keep track of their downloads, uploads, installs, game updates and their media portfolio that includes the videos and photos they can capture while playing the game. The Game Launcher also alerts players to new content in the store, localized game and store promotions along with relevant updates to the Store and cool new content from the community.

• TheSims3.com Site: With the launch of the game on June 2, the marketing website at TheSims3.com will be replaced with the full community and product site for the game. The site will not only connect players, encourage new ways to be creative in the game, and offer personally relevant information for each user, it also will serve as the hub site where players can share their content with other members, and embed them on social networking sites and blogs.

• Key Site Features:

o The Exchange: Building off of The Sims 2 Exchange’s success of more than 100M downloads, The Sims 3 Exchange highlights featured items, most popular downloads, powerful search and browse capabilities, along with giving players the ability to see what other players are recommending.

o Create a Movie and Create a Story: New easily accessible tools inspire creativity and allow players to create movies and stories and then show them off or share them with friends. Players can show off their Movies with the Create a Movie Tool by embedding them on external sites or with an email link back to their Movie on TheSims3.com.

o My Page and My Studio: The Sims 3 product site will allow players to maintain their profile pages on their My Page section as well as offering them the new My Studio section to manage all their creations – Movies, Stories, Exchange objects. My Page is also a blog space where players can post news, customize it with a personal avatar, track favorites and more. Users can make friends with other The Sims 3 players and share their content across a number of social network sites.