Hey guys, yesterday, I found the sims three site, which I'll link in a minute, and saw a peek at the newest generation of sims, according to the site, our naighborhoods will no longer be sectioned to different houses; It will be one, seamless, perfectly rendered map, which can be edited instantly instead of the loading screens between various different lots and sub-hoods, you can now edit objects' texture, mesh and maybe even function with a built in editor, so now you can make perfectly seamless sets of furniture, items, and decor, I suspect that function change must be unlocked much in the same manor as aspiration rewards: Bye a cheat. (Kidding)
Sims are now truly unique people, their features are now extremely variable, meaning you can determine their exact skintone from a option slide or other means, and probably edit eye color too.
Now you can walk straight out of your lot, and walk free all around the neighborhood, including the areas between houses. It may or may not have any of the creatures, (Ghosts, Aliens, Zombies, Robots, Vampires, Werewolves, Plantsims, Bigfoot, Genie.) But aliens, Ghosts and Ronots are very likely, as they are a recurring theme in the Sims series.
It has been implied that Instead of extremely segmented life sections, were the members of each are all the same height year, There may be a year system, so that you can choose a sim age, due to regular goofyness in the sims, I suspect the minimum and maximum age to be 0-150.
Weight can be slid up and down a scale from skinny to fat, and most likely can still be affected bye external influences, (Working out, overeating, etc.)
Items have been shown to be possible to place diagonally, a feat previously only possible bye hazourdous or rare occurences, such as flukes, cheats or custom content specificaly modeled to point in that direction.
Familys you choose not to play will still live, walk around, grow up and have children, but will most likely be almost invulnrable while in NPC-mode, unless the player specificaly causes their death, (Traping them and them starting a contained fire, placing them near broken electronics, unless the glitch with NPC's trying to fix broken tellys was removed in Sims 3)
Of cource the graphics will be getting an enormous overhaul, screenshots evidence this very well.
The game will be released 2009, month unspecified, Heres the link of the site and wiki article, Which are both full of pictures:
Site:
The Sims 3
Wikipedia:
The Sims 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia