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November 4, 2009 6:00 AM

GameSpot has posted a new preview of The Sims 3: World Adventures. The article examines the Create-a-World editing tool intended to allow industrious gamers the chance to build an entire neighborhood from scratch. Scheduled for released on November 16, World Adventures will give players the chance to take their sims to a variety of exotic locales around the world where they can engage in a number of life changing adventures.

Create-a-World is intended for serious Sims enthusiasts willing to devote enough time to build entire neighborhoods from scratch. The tool is actually the same one that the development team uses to create the playfields for The Sims 3 and its expansions. Because it's the same tool that the developers use, it can create areas similar to those that appear in the base game and expansions, in four different size levels. (The Sims 3's default neighborhood of Sunset Valley is the largest of the four world sizes.)

Like with the build mode of The Sims 3, you can manipulate terrain by raising it to create mountains or lowering it to create valleys and then "paint" the terrain using either the textures or terrain types available in the editing tools. Or, if you're ambitious enough, you can use image-editing tools, such as Photoshop to create your own JPEG and PNG textures to map onto your custom neighborhoods. Once built, these areas can be exported from the tool and then either imported into your own game install (you can have as many custom neighborhoods in your game as your computer's hard drive space allows) or uploaded to the Exchange community site to share with other users. It's not yet clear what the average file size of a custom neighborhood will be, but EA community representatives assured GameSpot regardless of how big they are, custom neighborhoods will be subject to the same sort of community-plus-EA-oversight content moderation process used for other custom content.

Visit the page below to read the full preview.

The Sims 3 World Adventures: Create-a-World Preview
Electronic Arts
The Sims 3: World Adventures




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