Gone is the fun intricacy of classic SimCity titles.

User Rating: 2 | SimCity Societies PC
By q3c | Review Date:
I have been waiting for a new installment in the SimCity series for a while now, and seeing this title as a successor to the wonderful legacy is just sad.

It seems that the team responsible for expansions to "The Sims" and "The Sims 2" series had a huge influence on this project. Gone is the fun intricacy of classic SimCity titles. It got replaced by a simplistic "influence" system that is just no fun to play.

The game mechanics were dumbed-down and rewritten - I can't even see any echoes of the good old SimCity playstyle.

No serious SimCity player would consider this game to be a part of the series.

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