The demo of The Sims 3 started off as the game itself does, with the Create-a-Sim mode, which packs the basic framework of the character-creation system from The Sims 2 with more granular customization options. There are four discreet color regions for your sim's hair. There are three sliders dedicated to just the size and shape of your sim's nose. You can now choose to start your sim in one of five age brackets, creating a distinction between a young adult and a middle-aged one. If all that sounds like a bit much, there are plenty of presets that you can choose from during the process, which still work plenty fine. Spending only a few minutes with the Create-a-Sim tool, I was able to shape and clothe a decent, if admittedly idealized, approximation of mysimself.
More significant to the actual gameplay than the aesthetic changes are the way your sim's personality impacts the experience. During the Create-a-Sim process, you'll choose a number of personality traits, ranging from charismatic to hydrophobic. There are traits that contradict each other, traits that complement each other, and there seem to be a pretty equal number of both positive and negative personality traits to choose from. This, I think, really speaks to how the developers recognize that there is no right or wrong way to play The Sims, and it can be just as much fun to play a neurotic screw-up as it can to play as some Eagle Scout. In addition to having a significant impact on how your sim will react to other sims and behave in general, the traits you choose end up determining which of the lifetime wishes you can choose from for your sim, which will serve as the overarching purpose of your sim's simulated life. Your lifetime wishes, in turn, will inform the kinds of short-term activities your sim will benefit from engaging in. These personality traits aren't permanent, however, and it's possible to trigger a midlife crisis for your sim, allowing you to pick a fresh set of personality traits.
One of the big draws of The Sims for a lot of people is its unique capacities as a virtual dollhouse, and one of the ways The Sims 3 improves on this is with the new create-a-style system. This feature lets you to create sets of custom-colored patterns that you can drag and drop onto anything your sim owns--clothes, furniture, homes, cars, you name it--making it much easier to create a cohesive sense of style for your sim. These style sets can consist of up to four different patterns, and the patterns themselves can consist of multiple customizable colors. While you won't be able to create custom patterns--at least not out of the box--there's certainly no shortage of stock patterns. EA wasn't giving out any hard numbers, but the fact that we saw no less than four different types of zebra patterns ought to give you a good idea of the scope here.
The specter of death has always lingered over The Sims, though in The Sims 3 it won't be quite as permanent as it has in the past. Causes natural and unnatural alike can still claim your sim, though if your sim buys the farm in certain, specific ways, they'll return as a freaking ghost, whom you can continue to play as in some capacity. This wasn't something that was actually shown during the demo, but it's definitely one of the first things I plan on figuring out as soon as I get a copy of the game. Yeah, as though that's really any different from how I ever play The Sims.
Hope its good
Also, im fairly sure with "Free will" on, Sims would always look after themselves in that capacity in all the games, Leaving you do concentrate on life goals (if you wanted that is, i mean i still commanded my Sims to do all the basic stuff even with Free Will on, couldn't stand their way of thinking sometimes) if you're saying it's done better, then great.
Sim games come with so many (SO MANY) expansion packs these days, that it seems to me not including every single feature added in those from the getgo with The Sims 3 will be like a giant middle finger to the fanbase. They'll soon be selling back to you those features in yet another round of expansion packs, and people will mindlessly buy them because it's The Sims. Well, I already fell for that tactic with the original game. I bought every expansion pack up to Vacation, and then I stopped playing, at some point. Then I bought The Sims 2, and never bought a single expansion for that game. I actually didn't play much of it at all, to tell you the truth. I realized The Sims was a gigantic sink hole wasting your real life time. And yet, here I am, wasting more of my time commenting on it.
And I may yet buy The Sims 3, if something changes my mind in the mean time. I have less faith in it being that significantly different/better than the second game, but we shall see.