Well that is good to hear Xaosll. While I probably fit under the "Armchair uban planner" type, as long as the gameplay is fun I'll be okay with it. I guess I'll just have to wait and see :)I was in the beta. Or rather what should have been titled a "pre-release demo."
Its good, and its fun. But it wont please a hardcore Simcity 4 fan. Theres definitely room and potential, especially given time and modding. But the base game appeals more to a The Sims gamer who wants a bit more depth. Armchair urban planners might be a tad disappointed.
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Surly you can't deny that SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4 approved on SimCity and SimCity 2000 tremendously. Also, the game isn't being made by EA, it's being made by Maxis. EA is publishing, just like for SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4.Toxic-SeahorseWell I'm not totally hating on Simcity 4. Simcity 4 is decently fun. But I don't think Simcity 4 improved upon the older Simcity's tremendously at all. I think it's graphics improved tremendously, yes, but it's gameplay stayed about the same, and then actually regressed in other areas (such as regions as I mentioned previously). Having to save my city, exit out to a region, load up another smaller city, work on it, save that city, load back out to a region, load back into my other main city, work on it some more etc...... ad nauseam, is not really fun for me. Don't get me wrong, Simcity 4 is fun, but I don't think it's as big of an improvement upon the other Simcities, if you've played them before? Simcity 4 also suffered a lot from sims not actually utilizing the public transportation like the should, and the routes were pretty funky. Not really gamebreaking, but definitely annoying. So was Simcity 4 an improvement? I'd say yes, but not by leaps and bounds by any means.
Yes that's what I'm wondering. It seems like to they'd have to keep the city sizes relatively small in comparison to Simcity 4 or even Simcity 2000 in order to get that advanced simulation, as well as to compensate for the new graphics. I'm not sure though, I'm just guessing there. Hopefully the gameplay makes up for it.You think the advanced simulation could run in Mega-City One?
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