A Tedious Blackmark On A Once Great Franchise
User Rating: 1 | SimCity Societies PC
If you are an avid SimCity fan, then you won't even recognize this title once you get into the game. Not that it's innovative or anything; In fact, I have yet to find anything that I would consider an original element. Individually plopping buildings into place has the feel of trying to make your settlement look pretty in Ages of Empires. All of the buildings have different effects that alter the look of your city, but these different building types are really nothing more that positive or negative effects that the government and reward buildings had in the previous titles. i suspect that the difference between this game and the last game is the product of the game developer's incompetence. They could not figure out how to meet the challenge of creating a beautiful, 3D rendered, city that utilized the traditional zone system. And so this is what we got. Garbage.
Whoever thought that abandoning the zoning principle that made Simcity so great was an absolute imbecile.
The effect of this new game is more like playing SimCity 3000 with all the cheat codes on, where you have unlimited money (I believe the code for this was to open the text window and type"callcousinvinny" ,or something like that). Anyway, if anyone has ever done that, they know the type of pointless, and unfulfilling, experience that this offered. This game's experience is much the same. There really is no challenge, and the massive and dynamic feel of SimCity 4 is completely lost.
The game looks pretty, but that was to be expected. In fact, about the only thing that the new SimCity title offered, was an upgrade in graphics from the old games. If this interests you, download the screenshots and put them on your screen saver. Don't buy this game.
