Complex and rewarding urban planning, Lots of wonderful details that make you feel connected to your city and its people, Cooperation deepens play on a regional level.
Almost anything and everything can, and does, break in some way, Modest plots of land limit creativity, Uncooperative players can mess up your plans.
Abstract: As I work on our final SimCity review (you’ll find it here on Friday), I’ve been documenting my observations and criticisms of the complex simulation and servers we’re required to connect to if we want to play it. My analys...
Abstract: I want to like SimCity. I want to like it so much. In fact, I do like it. So much that I'd love to tell you to run out right now and buy the game. There's just one thing holding me back. I can't play it. As I type this review out, I'm sitting on the ga...
Abstract: Compared to previous SimCity games, this new one rather controversially requires a permanent internet connection and the physical area you have to build your city is purposely small – cities have to interact with each other in order to get everything they...
Abstract: Readers beware: This review doesn’t have a happy ending. We acknowledge that the SimCity franchise is much-beloved by many gamers (including this reviewer), however the score and summary of the game has to be given to the game as it was experienced, n...
Abstract: NameCity planning simulator: SimCity (2013)Summary:A great game that's marred by its always-online DRM.Rating:3/5Games Info:Developer: Maxis; Publisher: EAClassification:Not ratedPlatform:PC, MacTest Platform:PCCity building simulator SimCity is one of th...
ConnectedIntelligent gameplay updatesRelaxing and compellingAmbitious online playVariety of buildings and upgradesDisconnectedTerrible server performanceA simulation that falls off the railsPoor regional informationThings just don't work as they shouldYou...
Abstract: Name: Genre: Platform: SimCity is great. SimCity is bad. SimCity is intelligent. SimCity is dumb. SimCity is social. SimCity is antisocial. SimCity is all of these things at once because SimCity is broken. I can't think of any game recently that's bee...
Beautiful graphics, the same brilliant gameplay that has always made Sim City fun, funny, multiplayer is fun with friends, hours and hours of fantastic gaming
Users forced online, no offline mode, DRM is fail incarnate, server load issues at launch, some AI engine problems (Maxis says it's working on them)
With this review, we had two choices. The first was to review it as is, and to mention the bugs and allow them to either affect the score, or to simply give the game no score at all. The second option was to wait for the issues to stabilise and the...
