Friday, June 28, 2013

Short Review: Sim City Societies

Title - Sim City Societies
Genre - Strategy
Platform - PC
Rating - F
Comments - I just noticed how few bad reviews I have given, and let me explain that the reason for that is the fact I usually do my research before I start to waste my time on any particular game. Despite reading many reviews on this one, I went ahead and got it anyway. I have always been a fan of the Maxis games, and Sim City specially has always been one of my favorite games as I have stated before. I have owned every single Sim City ever released. This version however, has been severely modified to suit a different audience. Developpers claimed that they attempted to keep old fans happy and get a new crowd to play it, well they FAILED. As an old fan of the series, I must say this game has nothing to do with the original versions, and insted of improving on something that had already been working for over a decade, they changed the game to suit different players, retarded ones or infants. The game is extremely simple and the new building system is extremely slow and unrewarding. The beauty of the old games, was the freedom to not only have fun building a city the way you wanted to look, but the fact that it was a science to keep the city running smoothly. I loved how they allowed me to decide on what buildings would be on my city through an indirect method of giving incentives to cater to certain types. On this game instead of allowing an indirect control over the buildings, you simply place them yourself, which takes away all the fun of creating a balance. The graphics on this new game are only marginally better. Overall this game was a waste of time,and a big disappointment on a series that was built by Will Wright, and completely destroyed by EA.

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