Since Sim 3 released, I've built over 5 houses and created at least 30 sims in Sunset Valley. I have traditionally enjoyed playing the Sims more, developing their lives, careers, love lifes etc more than building their dream houses, but this time it has been a lot of fun building, with the new level of customization allow in the sims 3 game engine.
Sims 3 was released on tuesday and I had some problem with my DVDrom and couldn't install it until yesterday. Took me a while to get used to the new game and their customization features and then it was fun and fun.