Today i've visited a few official and leading inofficial websites to get the latest news about The Sims 3 (Release: February 20, 2009). There has been the rumor that we could not build our own houses in The Sims 3 due to the new open neighborhood. This point is not totally clear so i wanted to find more info about that. Another important question is about the customizable breast-size of female Sims. I often read about it the search requests - and i understand that need ;) Read here what i have found out about Sims 3 breast-sizes and more... Is there a building mode in Sims 3? Okay, i didn't see a screenshot of the Sims 3 house-building mode yet. To be honest, i don't know for sure if you can create your own houses. But i simply cannot imagine that Maxis would steal this most-beloved and important feature from the gamers. Creating a mansion stone by stone always has been one of the most important parts of the whole Sims-series. Luckily, in the latest "Making of..." video, a guy says something like: "...some players want to build houses, some want to do other things, The Sims 3 has it all..." Additional neighborhood tool! On the other hand there won't be another neighborhood than the standard one in the basic game. That's a sad fact. But Maxis want to release an additional tool to create own neighborhoods. In The Sims 2 you always had to go the long and rocky road to create a landscape with streets and lots by using SimCity 4. Since ages i'm waiting for more in-game neighborhood tools but they never appeared. So a stand-alone "Body Shop for neighborhoods" is better than nothing. The Create a Sim Menus! In the same "Making of..." video you can see a number of menus of the new "Create a Sim" editor. It really seems to work a million times better than the old Sims 2 Family Creator. I deeply hope that there will be all the import/export/actualize functions inside the game's CAS and we never need Body Shop anymore to create own outfits. I've made a few screenshots of the menus, look carefully, they tell us something about customizable breast-sizes: On the first page of CAS you give the Sims a name, gender, zodiac and age. The "Create a Sim" (CAS) Editor looks cool and contains some innovations. But what about the possible body shapes? Let's see: Only 2 rulers for the body shape of this guy. And only the belly seems to be affected. Maxis knows why they show us this most interesting menu only with a male sim :) But anyway, i don't think that the female version will have more rulers for the breast sizes. It will be pretty much the same thin/heavy/muscle ruler like in the male window. Hair can have up to 4 different color zones (Roots, Base, Tips, Highlights)... In the screenshot above you can see a detail preview screen at the down left corner of CAS. There's also a navigation button (zoom and turn). And well, this picture also shows clearly how flat standard Sims 3 women are :( This photo shows the "Facial Details" Designer. Closely looking at a Sims 3 face gives us an idea of the enlarged number of polygons. The mesh is much smoother than in Sims 2. "Shape Presets" only shows default thumbnails yet. Sims 3 women remain to be unnatural! Though these pictures are no absolute proof i do not think that we can change the breast-sizes of Sims 3 females. Every real woman has a different breast size and shape but not in the Sims 3. I also was looking very carefully to many in-game screenshots but each and every female character was appearing exactly the same to me - at that most attractive body zone. I don't understand Maxis' reasons which may be mostly political. But the game will be marked as "inappropriate for children" anyway, due to some "nudity" and "violence", so why don't they add a button and make numerous fans happy?