A friend of mine got for her birthday this week a pre-order thing for the upcoming Sims 3 game. And as you can imagine I am more than a little jealous. Unfortunately my computer is made of suck, and even if it weren’t a zombie that only half-worked it is still nowhere near powerful enough to play Sims 3. In fact, it can barely cope with Sims 2 and any expansion pack higher than University is out of the question. I have my eye on my perfect computer, but unfortunately I am a wee bit short on funds at the moment. I am hoping to make a spare bit of cash by designing websites, but it looks like I am about three months away from that awesome desktop with Sims 3.

For a good chunk of this weekend, a friend and I have been watching videos made with Sims 3, as posted on their official website and their youtube account, and ooh-ing and aah-ing over new features and the way things look. We commented on the resemblances between Susan Boyle and Barack Obama’s Sims and the real thing in the Good Luck, Susan Boyle video. And we laughed ourselves silly at a parody of the new Star Trek trailer made entirely with Sims 3. The image accompanying this entry is from a screengrab of that trailer. My favourite bit? Red Shirts will die…

So: are you looking forward to Sims 3? If so, what things are making you so excited? I am looking forward to (amongst other things) being able to customise personalities more, a grid that is four times smaller, being able to select lifetime wishes (and having a larger range of wishes to choose from) and, of course, the open neighbourhood system.