Bear's Blog New Zealand (Beta)

Another great franchise ruined by EA.

After C&C, it's SimCity's turn.

When I heard that Maxis got nothing to do with SimCity Society, the newest game of once a greatest franchise, I immediately know that this won't be something good.

When I heard that they abandoned basic elements of SimCity such as zoning and power networking, I start to think if they should name this game something else.

So I downloaded the game through BT to have a try.

And I'm glad I didn't put my NZ$90 to buy one. I'm utterly disgusted,  the game is just a load of craps.

All you need is just randomly put your buildings around the map. The "social energies" thing, once promoted by EA as a new twist of SimCity and encourage people to try, well I cannot see anything important on that - you got 50 creativity, so what? Don't know. The Sims in your city still move around like normal even if you created a hell.

The buildings are totally out of scale - it is a fairy tale world, not a real world. The high graphic details looks pretty, but that's about it. In other way, my 8800gts struggled to run the game on high quality and lags on medium quality when the city gets larger.

The whole game got no purpose. It's a just themepark building game for kindergareners. In fact, for me,  I don't think it is even a game - it's a WYSIWYG editor with loads of bizzare ideas.

For all SimCity Fans, dont' be fooled by the title, this game is NOT SimCity. Don't waste your money on it, stick with SimCity 4 or hope that Maxis will put their feet on SimCity 5 (if there will be one) after Spore.