As a huge fan of the Sims series I was really excited about this game, and after playing about 3-4 hours with it I think I can write a few words about what I've seen so far.

Music:
The previous Sims games always had good music, and so does the new one, there's no problem with it. I could even recognize the Sims 2 theme hidden in it's music.

Graphics:
I didn't noticed big changes in the graphics (compared to The Sims 2 of course), OK it is better but still enough, The Sims never needed big graphical effects, bloom and all that stuff. And still it is a good game without them. Actually the system requirements are a bit high for my PC, it seems my processor isn't good enough with it's 2.0 GHz Dual Core performance. Especially when I'm zooming out to see the rest of the town.

Game-play:
It's just awesome that you can fully customize your Sims at the CAS (create a sim) screen, like the shape of the nose, lips, even the material of the clothes.
And finally about the controls. The basic control hasn't changed, you can simply use your mouse to do almost everything without the help of your keyboard. However, I think the controlling of the Sims is a bit complicated. For example I can choose what should my Sims do while he is in school (chat with friends, learn harder, etc.). Ok, it's not a bad idea, but I think it was better in the former Sims games when I didn't have to control the game so deeply.

But overall I think I got what I expected.

My score: 7/10