My Single Mom Life

This is definitely on our family Christmas list for this year!
The new Sims 3 for the Xbox360!

Hopefully Buy.com will still have it on sale for the awesome price of just $57.99 with free shipping, which most other e-tailers are not offering on this item.

For the longest time, the Sims has been a strictly pc game, and even though there have been a few versions for consoles, honestly, they sucked.
This version, the Sims 3, looks A-ma-zing!
It looks just like the pc version, and from what I am reading in the reviews, it plays just like the pc version.

The only "negative" things that I've read are that the ability to "slide" the sliders in the "Create-a-Sim" section are not there.
That means that you cannot slide to make noses, ears, and mouths, bigger or smaller, you have to choose from what is already there as far as the sizes of noses, ears, and mouths go, and that there's no direct control over your sims, meaning that you don't play in first person, that it's exactly like the pc version, you see the Sims and tell them what to do.
Apparently, some people wanted the Sims 3 for the console to be more like most console games, like first person shooters or something.
Personally, I like seeing my Sims and telling them what to do, and then watch them do it.
Like this image below, I love being able to tell my Sim to play a game of chess with Death in a game of win or die if the Grim Reaper comes a calling for your soul.
It would be very fun to watch your Sim play against Death, and if you win, tell and see your Sim to do a happy dance, and then watch as Death gets mad that he doesn't get to swallow your soul! hahaha!!

There is something new in the console version that is NOT in any of the pc versions, it's called "Karma Powers".
From the game features information:
Unlock All-New Karma Powers - Wield the ultimate control over your Sims giving them wealth, beauty, and love, or take it all away with the click of a button.
This feature sounds like so much fun!
Some of the other key game features:
Build and Customize - Build the ultimate home for your Sims, improve your town with building upgrades, and more.
I absolutely LOVE building houses! I can spend hours and hours of my game-play time, just building and decorating my house. I once spent about 6 hours of game-play time over the course of five straight days, doing nothing but building and decorating their home.
I bought a huge empty lot, (gave myself tons of Simoleons using the cheat code of course) and then spent all of that time building the most beautiful home that I could possibly imagine. It was truly incredible.
Then the game crashed.
*sigh*
Control your Sims' Destinies - Choose whether or not to fulfill your Sims' destinies by making their wishes come true, or letting their dreams die. Will your Sims be emperors of evil, world leaders, or expert thieves? It's up to you.
I love that in the Sims 3 we were given far more choices for what our Sims' would be, what their careers would be, and then make them do things to achieve those career goals.
Build and Share Online* - Connect to share your creations and download content from other players around the world, without ever leaving your game.
Some of the coolest clothes and furniture that I've downloaded for my Sims' were all things that I've gotten from other users who created stuff. I simply do not know how to create clothes or furniture, houses I can do, but I have no idea how to make the clothes and furniture, you have to be like good at some program, and I don't have the patience to learn a new program even though I would LOVE to design my own clothes and stuff.

Both Sebastian and I love playing the Sims' and Mark does too, but he doesn't like the controls of the pc, he prefers the video game console controls, so if we do get this for Christmas, then I know that Mark will play it too.
Yeah, we are so definitely going to get this, I just need to do way more work and as fast as I can to ear my Christmas spending money!

Hooba Noobie!*