Category: The Sims 3 Pets

 

EA has just announced the Sims 3 Pets, and has also listed the 5th expansion for pre-order via the EA Store. The price is $39.99 and is available for pre-order as Digital Download and Physical copies.  Can’t wait? Pre-order it today! 😛

 

 

Official Photos for the Sims 3 Pets.

 

  

 

 

 

With The Sims 3 Pets now officially confirmed, it has been added to the list of features for this year’s E3 Expo.  You can check out a full list of Game here.

 

The Sims™ 3 Generations

Enjoy a whole spectrum of new life experiences in The Sims 3 Generations where players can live life to the fullest with their Sims. With new celebrations to dramatic life events, there are even more ways to be creative. Starting off with the precocious childhood years, players can have their Sims play dress-up with the new costume chests and then watch them re-enact their favorite stories in one of three themed tree houses. In the teenage years, players are introduced to the new punishment system in which teenage Sims can be grounded for pulling pranks and trying to sneak out. Those teenage Sims with the rebellious trait will find it harder to stay at home and will want to pull pranks on others while other Sims may go on to become prom king or queen. Adult Sims have the chance to attend or plan bachelor and bachelorette parties, throw lavish weddings, and go through a mid-life crisis where they may change their look or even change careers. The Sims 3 Generations players can capture and keep track of their Sims’ life moments with an in-game video camera. Via the new memories system, players will also have the option of uploading and sharing their Sims’ memories on www.TheSims3.com and Facebook. Whether the player prefers to design houses as a builder, create moments as a storyteller, be mischievous as an experimenter, or fulfill lifetime wishes as an achiever, they’ll be able to explore every phase of life with new gameplay features, moodlets, objects and more that are specific to each age.

• Platforms — PC, Mac
• Street Date — May 31, 2011
• ESRB Rating — “T” for Teen

The Sims 3 Pets

The Sims 3 Pets comes to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS and PC/Mac this fall. The Sims 3 Pets enables anyone to play as they want, whether it’s the builder who prefers to customize their Sim to match their pet, the achiever who tries to gain the most Lifetime Rewards, the experimenter who wants to wreak havoc in their Sims lives or the storyteller who captures and shares their stories with their friends. For the first time in franchise history, players will be able to fully control their pets and determine their personality traits. Unique to the console experience, players will use their pets to help their Sims uncover and solve mysteries around town. Exclusively for the Xbox 360, players with Kinect™ can issue voice commands to their pets and Sims. The Nintendo 3DS takes advantage of the hardware’s built-in pedometer that tracks players’ real life movements. On the PC/Mac version, players now have the opportunity to adopt horses where they’ll be able to use their horse as a form of transportation to get around town and also raise and train them to do activities like race and jump hurdles. In The Sims 3 Pets, players will be able to create, control and play with life with their pets.

• Platforms: Xbox360, PS3, Nintendo 3DS, PC/Mac
• Street Date: Fall 2011
• ESRB Rating: “RP” for Rating Pending

 

 

 

Gamestop has listed Sims 3 Pets for Pre-Order on their site.  Pre-orders are available for all platforms including PC.

 

 

The Sims 3 UK has released the official trailer for Sims 3 Pets! The Sims 3: Pets is coming to PC, Xbox360, PS3 and 3DS, this fall!

 

 

 

 

Below you will find the description and fact sheet provided via EA.

 

POSITIONING Life is better with pets!

EXTRA SHORT DESCRIPTION (~45 WORDS)Create perfect—or imperfect—pets for your Sims, from fierce guard dogs to destructive kittens to trusty horses as you determine their looks—and personality traits. Treat your Sims and their pets to an exclusive venue filled with unique objects found only in the Limited Edition. With a variety of new activities and social interactions, take control of your Sims’ pets to discover surprising new ways to play with life!

LONGER DESCRIPTION (~90 WORDS) Create perfect—or imperfect—pets for your Sims, from fierce guard dogs to destructive kittens to trusty horses and more as you determine not only how your Sims’ pets look but their personality traits as well. With a variety of new activities and social interactions, take control of these pets and experience the world from their perspective. Treat your Sims and their pets to an exclusive venue filled with unique objects found only in the Limited Edition. Give your Sims a new member of their household and discover all-new ways to play with life!

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FEATURES More pets mean more fun! Create a wide variety of unique dogs, cats, and—for the first time ever—horses! Think your Sim has what it takes to tame a wild horse? Be the Pet. Wield control of your Sim’s pet to chase, dig, tackle and more. Be the perfect companion or wreck havoc on your Sims!

♦ Pets have their own traits! From intelligent, brave, and friendly to hydrophobic, skittish, and clueless to gentle, fast, and agile, determine the personality of your Sims’ pets.

♦ Pets can learn skills. Cats and dogs can learn to hunt, dogs can learn to locate collectibles and fetch your Sims a date, and horses can learn racing and jumping.

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♦ Sims can take their pets outside! Take Spike to the park, bring Whiskers to the library, or ride Star to the new Equestrian Center.

♦ Exclusive Limited Edition content! Only in The Sims 3 Pets Limited Edition will you find a pet store filled with one-of-a-kind objects.

 

GET THE EXCLUSIVE PET STORE VENUE

Give your Sims and their pets an exclusive pet store venue or create your own custom pet store by placing a pet store register on a community lot and building as you like.  With the Limited Edition you can:

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Change the look and feel of your Sims’ town with an exclusive venue!

Give your Sims a new place to meet up with other Sims and their pets!

Get unique objects only available in the pet store!

 

 

 

German website SimFans.de has provided us with 6 Renders for Sims 3 Pets.

 

 

 

GirlGamersUK has posted an article describing Sims 3 Pets and the features it includes for all platforms.

 

PC Features Include:

– More pets mean more fun! Create a wide variety of unique dogs, cats, and—for the first time ever—horses! Think your Sim has what it takes to tame a wild horse?
– Be the Pet. Wield control of your Sim’s pet to chase, dig, tackle and more. Be the perfect companion or wreck havoc on your Sims!
– Pets have their own traits! From intelligent, brave, and friendly to hydrophobic, skittish, and clueless to gentle, fast, and agile, determine the personality of your Sims’ pets.
– Pets can learn skills. Cats and dogs can learn to hunt, dogs can learn to locate collectibles and fetch your Sims a date, and horses can learn racing and jumping.
– Sims can take their pets outside! Take Spike to the park, bring Whiskers to the library, or ride Star to the new Equestrian Center.

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An Interview with Ben Bell on Pets/Unleashed dated June 3rd, was released and quickly taken down from the German Gaming website Computer Bild Spiele. Seeing as it was dated 4 days prior to 2011’s E3 event on June 7th, we should expect to see some more information surfacing soon.

Thanks to Infinite Sims for the Cache’d image of the German interview, & Sims Slovenia for the translation.

 

The new expansion pack brings certain four legged creatures into The Sims 3 world. The expansion pack producer explains, what we can do with dogs, cats and other animals. In The Sims world, everything is possible. Why didn’t the beloved animals get their needed attention is unknown. But The Sims 3 Pets will correct this mistake and place the player in a role of the furry creature. Every pet owner will tell you, that living with cat or a dog is nice, but Ben Bell now explains more about controlling your cats and dogs.

COMPUTER BILD SPIELE (CBS): How did you get the idea for the new Sims exp. pack? What role do the players have in this? Do you perform tests or have test audiences, or do you come up with ideas internally?

Ben Bell (BB): We always do what our fans want and we try to enable them to experience new things in our game. The idea for The Sims 3 Pets was simple. We love pets in the Sims Studio and we often talk about our pets, so it makes sense that we will enable our Sims to play with the four legged creatures, just like us.

CBS: Tell us more about the game. What can the fans expect?

BB: For the first time in the history of The Sims series, player can take control over your pet and live his story. We always want to know, what Fido or Fluffy think, when we come home late from work or when we take them on a walk around the park. The game enables us to do that and the pets also have traits, so that players can create their own, perfect pet – just like their Sims.

CBS: Will the game enable controls with speech or movement?

BB: Xbox 360 will enable players with Kinect to use voice control. Imagine, how it would be, when your Sim-dog would sit down, when you would say “Sit”! Voice control works with normal Sims as well. We’re really excited about this feature, because it is really fun!

CBS: What pets will the players be able to play with and what kind of control can we expect to have over them? Can players create their own pet-families?

BB: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DS offer players dogs and cats, that they can create however they want and they can choose from various breeds. PC/Mac version contains dogs, cats and also horses. Horses are new in the game, and we are really excited about it. For many years, players wanted to have horses in the game. Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC players can create their own pet-family, but they always need a human Sim to watch over them. 3DS owners can create their pet-families without any human Sim.

CBS: will the game work with or without the base game?

BB: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo 3DS games are standalone games and do not need The Sims 3 to work. PC/Mac version, however, need The Sims 3 to work.