i wouldn't know because i never played Sims 3 bu i really want to because it looks fun!! i played Sims 2 deluxe before its awesome i own Sims life stories but now i can't find it so i can't install it on my computer upstairs which is the one I'm using right now and I've played my Sims aquarium but it's boring all u do is take care of fish and if they die flush them down the toilet and buy new ones and I'm like a total Sims lover literally i even said to my mom "mom when i get rich you'll see me come home with 100's bags of Sims" and she laughed and she said look with that and laughed again and i said it can happen and I've always never forgotten that dream every since i first played Sims speaking of Sims its AWESOME how u can design ur own characters and families and make them fall in love and get a job and have kids do good in school if they're in a good mood of course lol that's why you should always feed them when they're hungry plus in Sims life stories u can bring the loved one back to life if u choose the right hand the grim raper has the Sim that died soul is in and if that person who died and the person who brought the Sims life back are lovers then when the lover is brought back to life will start making out cause they're both so happy they're love can be once whole again instead of move on but struggle just thinking about the person that died and i also played the regular Sims but the regular Sims sucks cause u can't design everything for your Sim like u can do in Sims life stories and Sims 2 deluxe and plus after they're fully in love with each other and u get them both to relax on the bed u can get them to have sex but it's funny for some reason honestly lol but the thing i mostly hate is when u get robbed and it was something very expensive and awesome that u bought and u did every single thing u did to get it but once i first learned the cheat that makes u richer and i always used to make them so rich that i could buy anything i wanted no matter what time and it'd be like living in a mansion and then every single day they'd all be home they would all have an awesome incredible day every day and they'd all be in such and incredible mood every single day and i just loved playing Sims every since i first played it.