The Sims 3: Standard Edition (PC/MAC DVD-ROM)

The Sims 3 lets you immerse truly unique Sims in an open, living neighborhood just outside their door! The freedom of The Sims 3 will inspire you with endless possibilities and amuse you with unexpected moments of surprise and mischief.

Features:

• New Seamless, Open Neighborhood¿¿Explore the neighborhood freely. 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?!
• New Create A Sim¿¿Create any Sim you can imagine. New easy-to-use design tools allow for unlimited customization to make truly individual Sims. Determine your Sims¿¿ shape and size, from thin to full-figured to muscular¿¿and everything in between! Choose your Sims¿¿ facial features, their exact skin tone, hair, eye shape and color and select their clothing and accessories.
• New Realistic Personalities¿¿Every Sim is a unique person, with a distinct personality. Create realistic Sims 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 and how they interact with other Sims. Your Sims can now rise above their basic set of every day needs. They are complex individuals with unique personalities.
• New Unlimited Customization¿¿Everyone can customize everything! Build your dream house or design the ultimate home. Customize everything from floors to flowers, 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 populate your Sims¿¿ neighborhood with pre-designed buildings and furnishings. Which of your Sims will live in high-end mansions, cool bachelor pads, ultimate dream homes or low-cost cottage?

The Sims 3 requires at least the following:   FOR WINDOWS XP  * 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent  * 1 GB RAM  * A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0  * The latest version of DirectX 9.0c  * Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2  * At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games    FOR WINDOWS VISTA  * 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent  * 1.5 GB RAM  * A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0  * Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1  * At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games   For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:   * Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above  * 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent  * 0.5 GB additional RAM   FOR MAC OS X  * Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher  * Intel Core Duo Processor  * 2 GB RAM  * ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or  * Intel Integrated GMA X3100.  * At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games  * This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.   Windows Supported Video Cards  -----------------------------  NVIDIA GeForce series  FX 5900, FX 5950  6200, 6500, 6600, 6800  7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950  8400, 8500, 8600, 8800  9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800  G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150  GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295   ATI RadeonT series  9500, 9600, 9800  X300, X600, X700, X800, X850  X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950  2400, 2600, 2900  3450, 3650, 3850, 3870  4850, 4870   Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)  GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series   Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly.   MAC OS X Supported Video Cards  -----------------------------  NVIDIA GeForce series  7300, 7600  8600, 8800  9400M, 9600M GT  GT 120, GT 130   ATI Radeon+G22T series  X1600, X1900  2400, 2600  3870,  4850, 4870   Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) GMA 3-Series