Which leads us to The Sims 3’s abundant offering of 170 lots to choose from and fill (if you wish!). In The Sims 4, the lot placement is specifically allotted and you only have so many free spaces to choose from. You can also change the land surface to make it suitable for a lot to pop down onto it.

In The Sims 3, you can place all sorts of lot sizes across the world wherever they fit on a flat plot of free space. The Sims 3 has Create a Style but The Sims 4 has Create a Sim In The Sims 4, you’ll notice that time is reduced between all loads which may help for any impatient gamers out there. The Sims 4 overall runs faster and therefore has shorter loading screens anyway. When you’re first loading up The Sims 3, you’ve got a lot of time to wait. Whilst The Sims 3 has that seamless nature of travelling between places, it comes at a cost. You can even control your Sim when they’re not on a lot. Fancy popping next door without staring at a spinning Plumbob? Sure, The Sims 3 has you sorted.

The open world mechanic made the game much more seamless than its predecessors by allowing your Sims to move from lot to lot, community to neighbourhood, like it was all one, big connected world. EA excited players when it introduced the ability to avoid loading screens when travelling around in The Sims 3. We’ll start here because it is by far the most contentious point of The Sims 3 versus The Sims 4 debate.

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