The Sims 3: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Poster: Pullout map poster identifying all shops, parks, services, and hidden collectable locations.
Personalities: Learn the in's and out's of Sim personalities with detailed trait breakdowns and mood templates.
Design: Our new design section will supply tips and tricks from the pro's to build the most elaborate homes and yards.
Customization: Learn how to update your décor with tutorials to help you customize your own chairs, walls, and floors.
Wishes: Detailed walkthroughs and tutorials will help you learn how to achieve your short term and long term wishes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prima Games; Pap/Pstr edition (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761561374
• ISBN-13: 978-0761561378
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,250 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great addition to help you achieve the best Sims 3 experience, June 3, 2009

By	A. Chandler "ArtistAlana" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I am greatly enjoying Sims 3 and began playing with this guide to see if it created a better experience for my own Sims interaction. I have to agree that it does...anytime you remove some of the "work" in gameplay you get more...well...GAMEPLAY! :-)

First, it comes with a pullout map/poster that helps you quickly find your way and identify all main areas of the Sim world at a glance including shops, parks, streets, etc.

It helps you and your Sims save some cash by providing appraisals of all household items so you know what's worth buying at a glance and goes further by giving you tips on helping your Sims overtake their career ladders and advance upward for more $.

Also helping your Sims advance in their lives are tips for you to help guide them to achieving their life's dreams and daily wishes.

You'll get tips from the experts on how to fully customize each and every aspect of the Sim's homes from object to elaborate homes and yards.

Sims 3 dips far greater into being able to discern personality traits and how those affect the world of each Sim in the game. This guide will further provide clarity on those personality traits, how to better discern and utilize them and the Sim's mood templates.

The guide became, for me, almost a whole new game in itself...exploring it in order to become the "Master of your Sim's Domains".

Conclusion: If you want to have the best Sims 3 experience yet with ease of game play, less work, and exploring things you hadn't yet thought of...it's a great purchase!

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sims 3 Prima Guide, June 2, 2009

By	Jeff Carter (Perry, Ga United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This guide is very informative on the sims 3.It list cheats,shows every object,shows every community lot location and what interactions are on it example movie theater,stadium etc,careers,building,relationships etc.It also has a map that comes with the whole neighborhood and it shows were all the collectibes are as well as the names and locations of every location in Sunset.

They did make a mistake with the swimming pools thou.The only interaction they have listed for pools is swim.You can also chat in pools,splash and play a game with another sim by going under water and seeing who can stay under the longest till they have to come up for a breath.

I recommend this guide.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really disappointed, June 22, 2009

By	Heather S. Paul "Haylia" (VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a review for:The Sims 3: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

I've used the Prima guides for many games and more specifically the other Sims games and this is the first time I've really felt compelled to write a review. I am very disappointed with this book. There are some interesting facts/tricks you can glean from reading it however not enough to warrant the following complaints. It's like they got a different version of the game when they wrote it- there are many, many inaccuracies and outright mistakes in it. Examples include "cheat" codes that do not work, job titles that are listed which do not exist/correspond with the ones actually in the game, same with social interactions and building items. There are just too many errors to list. Not only is it badly researched and full of mistakes its also extremely difficult to use. There is no index and the table of contents is vague at best. If you want to look something up you have to resort to thumbing through the book and reading through a lot of pages until you find the tidbit you are looking for. A lot of the book is padding and fluff as well... do you really need 10 pages of chart listing all the buy objects and another 10 full of build objects when you can reference them much more easily by looking at them in the game? I really do feel cheated by the gross inaccuracies, padded content, and disorganized format of this "guide" and I'd advise anyone who wants to buy to reconsider.