The Sims 3 Box Set: 7 Guides in 1

 (35 customer reviews)

I was expecting to have nice guides, and these are a great disappointment. I had an idea that these would not be exactly like the "real" guides, but I had no idea they would look and feel so cheap. For the price and content, I am giving these 2 stars. I hope you have good eyes, because the print is extremely small. The pages are gray, and the print is only a shade or two darker, adding to the difficulty to read them. Don't expect to see any good pictures, they too are small and just slightly different shades of gray.

Having purchased Prima's Strategy Guides since the early 1990's, including all the Sims Guides, I pre-ordered this set looking forward to checking out all the options, modules, and activities. I was surprised to see that in this "set" Prima abandoned their usual format. These books are not only the usual paperback, but actual paperbacks, as in the dime store novel size, with pages of newsprint. The print and photos are so small that you need a magnifying device to see and read "the fine print". As with other normal-sized strategy guides there are photos of scenes, events, and places, not to mention the individual "stuff", but printed on newsprint in variuos black and gray tones, they appear a little more than smudges, and very difficult at best to visualize what is being illustrated.

I may be generous giving this two stars, because the material is there (I Think), however the product overall appeared to be Prima cheaply "pirating" their own regular guides, quoting the...Read more

I, like the others, was expecting something similar to the usual Prima Guides. Was I ever wrong.

And while they are clearly shoved full of information, I need a magnifying glass to read any of the text. It really doesn't even deserve the 1 star I am giving it.

To say I am disappointed is an understatement.