Hello, First off I am one of the biggest Sims fans in the world, I for one cant Waite for the sims 3 to come out, I want to play it so bad. I have the sims 2 and all the expansion packs and stuff packs. Don't be fooled by all the differences of the sims 3, I belive its a lot more like the sims and the sims 2 then you think, Like you can play the sims 3 and have a Sim play the ''Home life'' and never leave the house if you want to. And you can go to shop in town then come right back home, Also I have read some ''Creators Camp'' facts and it says that your can set the aging time or turn it off completely, and form ''Eden Style''.

-All the Sims of the city evolve together, but if you want you can stop the aging or the story progression. In this way Sims that you don't control won't get married or evolve.

So if you want to stop the sims that your are not playing form doing important life moments you can. So that way you still have control over the whole neighborhood, I for one am glad of this, As I don't want the sims that I play to do important things unless I tell them to even if I am playing another family. I think the sims 2 is a great game, But unless you just want the sims 2 I would wait for The Sims 3 as it is still the basic concepts of the sims which is creating sims and living there lives and building houses and things of that nature.

The Sims 3 is just really the next logical step, Making sims smarter and more realistic and the neighborhood integrated as a whole. So I say unless you can/want to buy both I would just wait and get the sims 3.

The day it comes out would be ideal!!!! Hehehe.