Why do people always take something PROVEN to be successful and abandon all sense and go in the opposite direction?

User Rating: 3 | SimCity Societies PC
By fsleeper | Review Date:
We all loved SimCity as it started small, but great at the time, and over time they stuck with what was good and added more details, more control, higher quality, more zoom out and in, etc. You had more and more you could do with buildings and roads and streets, etc - that looked ever more beautiful and realistic. Now - this abomination hits the streets! We waited YEARS (literally anxiously) and what do we get for our long, faithful waiting? The SIMS style buildings, forced zoom to such a close up view, cartoonish coloring and ridiculous activity (SIMS 2 style), no infrustrucure evolution (small roads to freeways, etc, power grids, sewage, overall traffic pattern concerns, etc) and all the rest we LOVED to deal with ripped away from us.

Add to that, the performance for this lack-of-graphic / power disaster is pathetic. I have what is considered by todays standards a God-Box and the game crawls relative to all the glory of Crisis and others that are FAR more graphics intensive. I have no idea what the CPU is being spent on but is not on the overwhelming complexity of the game for sure. In one sitting, day 1, I build the end-all / beat all Capitalist city (which looked horrible as far as buildings and roads, etc goes from years-ago comparison to Sim-City). Next day I thought I would try again and recieved the last of the achievable "awards" and completed the end-all / beat-all industrial city.

How aggrivating. I guess it's a good game for an 11yo, which is why I at least rated it as high as I did. SOMEONE could enjoy it. As for me - I'm trying everything I can to get my money back. DON'T BUY IT or you WILL be let down in a hurry.

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