the end of a series, RIP simcity
played simcity1 for pcs and snes (great)
got addicted and lost tons of hours (in great fun) with simcity 2000
punched the air with happiness while playing sc3000 and watched the evolution
absolutelly loved simcity 4 and rush hour, played for more than 3 years (and still playing)
now...sharing my first day of experience in scs
got my hands on societies at launch...excited....installed......BANG game over my friend
at first i tough wow....this game looks nice, a beauty!
skipped the tutorial...
started my first town....what the heck!? where are the regions??? ok...i can take it...back to sc3000 style.
as always, went to built a energy source, ok cool...lots of power plants as usual..wait...where are the energy lines?? ok...i didnt liked them anyway
went looking for water plants...where are they??? what??? no water?? ook...weird...back to simcity1
right....time to build a basic transport for the city....transport menu...roads...dirt road....train??? no train??? back to sc#....ops...train was in all simcitys.....damn...i loved them....annoying...no highways, no one way roads, no nothing...only stupid roads with the size of a 4x4 building and terribly awfull to manipulate
started to get pissed, build the road...and a subway (that connects itself...)
time to add some buildings.....no zonning...i can live with that....poping builds here and there...managing the senseless right-bottom screen "numbers" and jobs...good, not that bad
time to take care of education, crime and others...
no map for them, almost no data, just regular buildings, no area of effect........god it pissed me off
went to the statistics....almost nothing...no taxes, almost no data (again) NOTHING compared to SC4 (or simcity 1)
anyway...started time to flow...ok....flowing....god...im getting money...and lots of it! wait.....i have no budget...how is this possible?? the buildings doesnt have a monthly cost....EASY AS PIE almost a god mode at regular game
time passed....cash coming (simoleons...at least the name of the money is still there)...the city...well...static...nothing grows, nothing get trashed, just as i built it.......where's the fun?? in simcity4 i think, ill not even talk about airports, trash management, ports, city laws....its not worth it
conclusions: (or 10 reasons to not buy it)
1-EA ruined the game that was so great with maxis by making a crappy company manage it (the same that made the not less crapy Caesar 4)
2-It shouldnt be called Simcity, maybe "HEY, MAKE A CITY MODEL" or "simsandbox"
3- any 5 year old that knows how to click a mouse can play it and become bored after 30 minutes just like anyone else
4-Easy...too easy
5-Shallow
6-bad gameplay
7-Disappointing
8-bugged (my game crashed 5 times EVEN after downloading th patch (btw released before the game...weird)
9-slow
10-limited
sorry for typing/english mistakes, not in a bad mood after playin it
Leandro Chiarello
going back to simcity 4, civilization 4 and football manager 2008, really good games