Seamless Neighborhood

With The Sims 3's new open world you Sims can walk down the street to their friends place and hang out for a few hours. You can go down to the mall or the café without the nag of a loading screen. This will allow you as a player to completely get into the game and to feel as though it was more realistic. With this open neighborhood your Sim could do something to affect the whole town such as if your Sim was a bully, they could affect the moods of many Sims resulting in different behaviors of the characters in the game.