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  • Constructible Worlds - Creative and customizable world that offers unique gameplay benefits, all with a fun tactile interface
  • Sims Matter - The Sims in your city speak to you directly and it's up to you to respond to their needs. Will you listen and be the toast of the town? Or abuse your power for fame and fortune?
  • Specialize in What You Love - Mold your city as a casino resort, manufacturing hub, educational enclave, and more, and then watch as a unique look and feel spread throughout your city
  • Multiplayer - Build a region with friends for the first time! Collaborate or compete in regional and global challenges and make decisions that impact the greater SimCity World
  • GlassBox Engine - SimCity introduces GlassBox, the revolutionary simulation technology that gives you the power to impact individual Sims lives, manage city level simulation, and balance multiple city simulations at once
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The defining city simulation is back! Create the city you desire and make the choices that shape your city and power the Sims within it. Every decision, big or small, has real consequences. Invest in heavy industry and your economy will soar - but at the expense of your Sims' health as pollution spreads. Implement green technology and improve your Sims’ lives while risking higher taxes and unemployment. Team up with your friends to solve global challenges: launch a space shuttle, reduce carbon emissions, or build magnificent wonders. Compete on global and regional leaderboards to be the richest, the dirtiest, the happiest or the best place to visit!

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SimCity is a city-building and management simulation game for the PC gaming platform that serves as a 2013 reboot of the iconic video game series. As with all games in the franchise, SimCity provides total control of how cities develop, but also adds new features such as: crisp 3D graphics, direct contact with citizens, dynamic real-time in-game units that replace animations representing player actions and levels of citizen happiness, franchise first multiplayer support, and in-game weather and pollution representation.

SimCity returns, with relevant city planning choices such as whether to go green.
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Power to Change a World Together

The defining city simulation is back. Create the city you desire and make the choices that shape your city and power the citizens within it. Every decision, big or small, has real consequences. Invest in heavy industry and your economy will soar - but at the expense of your Sims' health as pollution spreads. Implement green technology and improve your Sims' lives while risking higher taxes and unemployment. Team up with your friends to solve global challenges: launch a space shuttle, reduce carbon emissions, or build magnificent wonders. Compete on global and regional leaderboards to be the richest, the dirtiest, the happiest or the best place to visit.

Key Game Features

  • Constructible Worlds - Creative and customizable world that offers unique gameplay benefits, all with a fun tactile interface.
  • Sims Matter - The Sims in your city speak to you directly and it's up to you to respond to their needs. Will you listen and be the toast of the town? Or abuse your power for fame and fortune?
  • Specialize in What You Love - Mold your city as a casino resort, manufacturing hub, educational enclave, and more, and then watch as a unique look and feel spread throughout your city.
  • Multiplayer - Build a region with friends for the first time. Collaborate or compete in regional and global challenges and make decisions that impact the greater SimCity World. 2-16 player support online.
  • GlassBox Engine - SimCity introduces GlassBox, the revolutionary simulation technology that gives you the power to impact individual Sims lives, manage city level simulation, and balance multiple city simulations at once.

System Requirements

  • OS - Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
  • Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core 4000+ or better / Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2.0 GHz or better
  • RAM - 1.5 GB (XP) / 2 GB (Vista / Windows 7) / 2 GB (built-in graphical chipset)
  • Graphics Card - ATI X1800 or better, nVidia 7800 or better, Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better (*minimum of 256 MB of onboard RAM and shader 3.0 or better support)
  • DVD-ROM - 8x or better
  • Internet connection

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3.3 out of 5 stars
3.3 out of 5
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Customers have expressed negative opinions about the bugs, size and quality of the video game. They mention that the game is online only, the city sizes are ridiculously small and the quality is horrible. They also dislike the cities, connectivity, and performance. Opinions are mixed on playability.

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772 customers mention387 positive385 negative

Customers are mixed about the playability. Some mention that they love the visuals of the game, saying it's pretty neat and amazing. They also say the gameplay is fun, with a few bugs here and there. However, others say that the game is a nightmare, has a lot of problems, and is largely unplayable in most forms.

"...I want to begin with the game itself. The graphics are fantastic. It looks great on my asus laptop running an hd display...." Read more

"...The game still has a lot of problems but as a long time fan of the Simcity franchise I find myself playing it every now and then and I've logged a..." Read more

"...The skyscrapers look pretty. Not amazing, but pretty. The streets look nice as well however, sometimes there is a glitch when you place roads, it..." Read more

"...The first three days after release, the game was a nightmare as they didn't have enough servers to handle all of the requests, and thousands of..." Read more

605 customers mention24 positive581 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the connectivity of the video game. They mention that the servers appear to be down, have problems, and are spotty at first. Some say that the game's servers can't keep up and are unable to offer stable servers.

"...substantial considering the product, is that you have to be connected to the internet constantly, which in the first few days of the games release,..." Read more

"...You must have a constant internet connection to play...." Read more

"...The road placement tool is a little awkward- Server illness sometimes happens (it throws you off) but honestly, since I've had SimCity..." Read more

"...No multicore support? Uh...okay......I'll update the review if things get better. :-/" Read more

435 customers mention79 positive356 negative

Customers are disappointed with the quality of the video game. They mention that it's buggy, underwhelming, and a massive disappointment. They also say that the interface is terrible and the content is not really valuable. They say the game is not even a little complex.

"...So to sum up, the always on internet deal is a bit tedious and can be frustrating if it takes an extended period of time, but this is where PC games..." Read more

"...The buildings look terrible with these settings...." Read more

"...The skyscrapers look pretty. Not amazing, but pretty...." Read more

"...The UI design is pretty, but a bit obtuse. I'm constantly hitting wrong buttons trying to find the one category that has what I'm looking for...." Read more

391 customers mention52 positive339 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the performance of the video game software. They mention that it has glitches and issues with the mechanism not functioning correctly. Some customers also report that the servers did not work for the first 9 hours. The program has crashed on start up, and the always online benefits work extremely poorly.

"...The one effect I wanted to get rid of (fog) is not an option to shut off, but it is an option in SimCity 4...." Read more

"...Now that the game isn't a mess of connection and crash problems that should have been solved in the alpha build I'm going to re-write this..." Read more

"...been able to resolve the lack of server issues, they still have not completely re-enabled all the features of the game...." Read more

"...I noticed the game doesn't have the Undo option which was a bit weird...." Read more

214 customers mention5 positive209 negative

Customers find the city sizes ridiculously small, the map zones are way too small, and the city size restrictions are hard to get past. They also say the allotted space is quite small and the cities feel cramped.

"...I do agree that the individual maps are a bit smaller than in previous installations of this franchise, but I don't see it as a bad thing...." Read more

"...The maps are TINY compared to SimCities of the past, especially SimCity 4. There just isn't room to put all the cool stuff...." Read more

"...Maps aren't very big- Highway placing (parkways) taken away...in other words, we have no control and/or placement of limited access highways...." Read more

"...And the city size restrictions are hard to get past. The area you have to build in is actually quite small...." Read more

134 customers mention22 positive112 negative

Customers find the cities in the game to be poorly processed, inconsistent, and hard to save. They also mention that the game loses all their saved cities and can no longer connect.

"...The thing that becomes problematic is that this game has a very poor routing AI and utilities are treated like cars...." Read more

"...excuses for why you need it but you need to know this: your cities are not saved locally. They save to EA's servers...." Read more

"...On top of that... All of my progress appears to be gone. So basically I just wasted a whole bunch of time and money for nothing......" Read more

"...All progress was lost, so had to start over. Was able to play for about 30 minutes this time before server dropped me again...." Read more

131 customers mention7 positive124 negative

Customers find the offline mode of the video game software to be annoying and terrible. They also say that the game requires them to be always online, which places them at a disadvantage.

"...So to sum up, the always on internet deal is a bit tedious and can be frustrating if it takes an extended period of time, but this is where PC games..." Read more

"...You cannot play without an internet connection- that means no playing on long plane rides or anywhere else you aren't plugged in- usually the best..." Read more

"...is no terraforming, no subways, and no multicore support and no offline play...." Read more

"...Some criticisms I completely find valid:1. Only allowing online play...." Read more

102 customers mention5 positive97 negative

Customers find the game has many bugs and glitches. They say it's a sub-power simulation wrapped in a bug. They also mention that there are bugs on a six-lane road, traffic bugs, and sewage not going to waste. They feel the bugs drag their cities down and the memory of $60.

"...releases of CXL just added some buildings but again, the same bugs carried over...." Read more

"...There are also bugs where on a six lane road (three lanes each way) a single car stuck on lane 1 will block lanes 1-3 causing a traffic jam...." Read more

"...For a game so heavily centered around roadwork, the road system is flawed...." Read more

"...I've also been running into quite a few bugs/glitches...." Read more

Paid $60+ for a game you can't play. But thank you EA for fixing it.
3 Stars
Paid $60+ for a game you can't play. But thank you EA for fixing it.
Game looks awesome from the intro, but that's all you get. Plus you have to play online, you can't play just off your computer like everyone has been requesting EA to do for some time. Been waiting 2 years and can't even play. I even upgraded my computer just for this game. You would think by all the pre-orders they would have been smart enough to have servers that could handle the traffic.UPDATE: At least EA said sorry and offered a free game to those who had trouble with Sim City. So I'm changing my rating from 1 to 3 stars. Its a good game, but still a bummer you have to be online to play it. Its also a little confusing. I'm having a hard time getting my city over 100k people.
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B. Love
5.0 out of 5 stars So many good things, so few bad things. My take...
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2013
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
Hello Everyone. I wanted to give my two cents on this great game.

The new Simcity has one drawback and so many benefits in my opinion.

The first and only drawback, which is not substantial considering the product, is that you have to be connected to the internet constantly, which in the first few days of the games release, was a tedious task. I, however, cannot complain as it took me about 5 minutes of trying to connect before I was successful on the North America server. After this first few minutes, it has not been a problem. Sure every once in a while it has trouble connecting but overall not really a problem.

Now onto the positive. I want to begin with the game itself. The graphics are fantastic. It looks great on my asus laptop running an hd display. Everything is clear and easy to navigate and I can classify my display via the options menu to my widescreen. Additionally, the ability to upgrade or add-on to buildings in something missing from a lot of games. Sure you can upgrade some of your soldiers or whatever in games like Rise of Nations/Rise of Legends, but nothing modifies the building itself. Now you can add wings to your hospital, add carparks for your police and fire stations, and increase the power output of your power plants.

I do agree that the individual maps are a bit smaller than in previous installations of this franchise, but I don't see it as a bad thing. Yes, you can only expand so far before you need to start on a new city, but that is the majority of the fun here. I can focus one city on commercial, one on industrial, etc. and then link the cities and have them provide for each other.

I think it is hilarious that they added the heroes and villains pack to this game with such an increase in comic book hero popularity over the past few years. It makes the game fun and adds challenges to the game. I have yet to build my Dr. Vu tower but it's coming...

Additionally, I have never really played a game that I can install on more than one machine, and pick up where I left off on any of the machines, whenever I want. Sure, you could install previous installations on more than one machine and then transfer your existing game from laptop to pc, etc and pick up where you were, but now I can finish the game on my laptop when I am on my lunch break at work, and continue on my PC when I get home. There is no transferring, no delays, just start up the game and go. Its terrific. And I can play on as many machines as I want there is NO LIMIT.

Now on to how long you can play the game. If you can absorb how advanced the next installment of this franchise will be, then why focus all of your attention on how long EA keeps the servers on for this particular game? It took them more than a decade to release a follow up to Simcity 4 and all of the downloads/updates, etc. are still listed on the EA site for download (last I checked as I still play Simcity 4). If you consider that time frame, 10 years, into this game, the add-ons, expansions, etc that are going to come out for this game are well going to extend the server life for this title. You can expect the servers for this to be online for at least 15 years (that's my estimation). Given the different options available in this game, I can easily see myself playing this game for that long (maybe not for hours on end such as I am now but I will still boot up the laptop or pc for some city building every now and then).

So to sum up, the always on internet deal is a bit tedious and can be frustrating if it takes an extended period of time, but this is where PC games are going. Piracy is at an all time high do to the rising prices of internet and the global recession going on, so its to be expected that securities be put in place. I'm sure someone will come up with a crack or something in the future, or EA may just break down and give the option to play offline with certain stipulations, such as logging in to verify you are who you are and to make sure that only one machine is logged in at a time and then you can log off but that is something we will just have to wait and see.

I'm sure this review will get backlash, but I wanted to give a positive review of a game that is really terrific, but isn't making the best impression in its first few days of release. Thanks for reading!
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1.0 out of 5 stars The new SImCity is an EPIC FAIL
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013
Platform For Display: PCVerified Purchase
Easily the worst way to spend $60 since your "Jello of the Month" membership. Wow... So as you no doubt know by now this new release of SimCity has the following major differences from previous versions:

1) You must have a constant internet connection to play. You cannot play without an internet connection- that means no playing on long plane rides or anywhere else you aren't plugged in- usually the best times TO play SimCities of the past.

2) The maps are TINY compared to SimCities of the past, especially SimCity 4. There just isn't room to put all the cool stuff.

3) Although there are grids, roads don't stick to them by default. While some may feel the grid was limiting it had the benefit of keeping straight lines straight, and streets parallel. The SC4 version was far superior to this free form roads in the new version. You can easily put down an expensive mistake that ruins the layout of the city.

4) No "Undo" option. With the chance of city crippling mistakes a bad mouse-click away a basic "Undo last change" or "Go back 1 day" feature was a no brainer. Unfortunately it doesn't exist in this game. You double click instead of single click and you could be dropping a power-plant in the middle of a residential neighborhood. No way to revert to an earlier saved version (because you can't save the city yourself) and now you either have to destroy an expensive power-plant or re-design the city around it to make it work. This doesn't happen in "real" cities so simulation fail.

5) Buildings become "married" to roads. I tried to delete a road to give more room for my Casino to expand and I was warned (thankfully) that bull-dozing that road would also bull-doze the casino itself.

6) Requires far more graphic processing for more basic graphics than SimCity 4. On my current laptop (HP Envy Windows 7, Core i5) I can run SimCity 4 in high/top graphic mode. In the new SimCity almost all graphics were set to "Low" and shadows off completely. The buildings look terrible with these settings. I manually upped the quality and while it did have an affect on framerate it would have been unplayable with the default graphics. The one effect I wanted to get rid of (fog) is not an option to shut off, but it is an option in SimCity 4. Why waste graphics processing power on fog to purposely obstruct the city view is beyond me. SimCity of prior versions worked well with their angle-view, making everything in this SimCity a fully 3D rendered object was a mistake from the start IMO.

7) No more real "zones" like you are used to. In SimCity 4 their zoning was good, you could see how much space a zone takes up, the way it would be pointed, and it would auto-create basic streets within the zone if you wanted. This version does away with all that in favor of just drawing lines along roads to designate R, C, or I. No idea how far back the development will go, very annoying.

8) Abandoned buildings don't ever get fixed up. For some dumb reason you need to be on a constant look-out for abandoned property and bull-doze them or nothing will ever come back again. In real cities private development does buy and demolish abandoned building to put up new ones if demand is high.

9) You try to play and there is no space available- they put you IN LINE to wait to play. They tell you the game will start in "30 minutes." REALLY? I have to wait 30 minutes to play the game I just paid $60 for? I might not want to play in 30 minutes- I want to play the game when I turn it on, that is the point of buying a game!

OK, there are some positives but they are drowned out by the fact you can't play when their servers are down which means sometime in the next few years when they abandon this flop you're out your $60 with an unworkable product.

Pros-

1) Nice not to have to worry about water pipes- That was annoying in SC4. In this SimCity Water and Electric is automatically a part of the roads you put down- so if a zone connects to a road, it has water (assuming you pump some)

2) Free to "Zone" areas. In a real city it doesn't really cost money to just declare some land Residential or Industrial so glad to see this. (Although you now only start with $50,000, down from $500,000 (on easy) in SC4.

3) It seems easier to get a basic city going. A small city compared to earlier versions but if you get the basics (power, water, and keep pollution away from the residents) you will have a profitable city. As long as the city is profitable you can build just about anything given enough time. The real challenge is in correctly planning such a small city.

So overall I say avoid this title like the plague. No doubt it was Maxis/EA management that destroyed this game- they are the ones who required this "always on" internet connection, in hind site this was just a money grab to pull some money out of the SimCity name, they knew there would be thousands of people like me willing to jump into anything with the SimCity name we would throw away $60 no matter what they delivered- and they took full advantage of that.

If you're reading this don't make my mistake. Go back to SimCity 4, I re-installed my old copy- it works just fine on Windows 7 64 bit you just have to install it in the c:\program files\ directory NOT the c:\program files(x86)\ that is the default.
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