City buliding game?

stiv121 · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:41

Used to love sim city 3000 as a kid and i've played a little sim city 4 but now I'm looking at a more modern one with more things to do and such

Any recomendations?

No1newts · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:54

I find the city builders these days are too complicated for me

marc1024 · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:55

Last city builder i played was sim city 3000. Enjoyed that very much, I have tried the latest ones but as no1newts said i find the latest ones to complex.

gropingmantis · 27 Dec 2011 at 18:59

2000 was the best.

blasphemyweb · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:01

Try the Anno games. Apart from them nothing comes close to Sim City 4.

Destination · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:01

Isn't anno 2070 along these lines?

andy_mk3 · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:01

I've got Cities XL which seems pretty good, it's fairly complicated, but it's alright once you work out what everything does

stiv121 · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:06

Anno is a bit too expencive at the moment, are the Civ games any good ? Sid Meier's Civilization® V is only £6.75 at the moment on gamersgate but I don't know if the key could be used on steam?

Smokey Deza · 27 Dec 2011 at 19:59

andy_mk3 said:
I've got Cities XL which seems pretty good, it's fairly complicated, but it's alright once you work out what everything does

It is good, closest you can get to SimCity but it still doesn't have multicore support so I'm guessing the stuttering still exists when your city gets bigger...?

stiv121 · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:12

Civ looks good so I'll give that a try £19.19 for the GOTY civ and Deus Ex =D I'm a happy chappy

andy_mk3 · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:14

Smokey Deza said:
It is good, closest you can get to SimCity but it still doesn't have multicore support so I'm guessing the stuttering still exists when your city gets bigger...?

I've only ever played it on my laptop (i5, HD 5650 1GB) and it seems to run ok on high settings. It's quite enjoyable though

pingwing · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:16

Pharaoh from 15 years ago?

I still play it quite a bit...

phil-k · 27 Dec 2011 at 20:36

Cities XL 2012 is cheap on Steam for a limited time

Guest2 · 28 Dec 2011 at 15:25

Anno games, Age of empires, Settlers 2

Amraam · 28 Dec 2011 at 17:14

I still occasionally play simcity on my iphone

I think it's called simcity deluxe? very slightly more simple than simcity 3000 though

Howitzer · 28 Dec 2011 at 17:35

pingwing said:
Pharaoh from 15 years ago? I still play it quite a bit...

Too right!

Ceasar 3 is one for me too

Avoid Ceasar IV at all costs! An abomination of a city builder

sharpygsxr · 28 Dec 2011 at 17:37

sim city 4 is still epic for me, get the nam mod and your onto a winner.

Only issue is how god awful the official site is for getting patches etc

Wynthorpe · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:06

Just bought Cities XL 2012, hope its a good one.

MagicBoy · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:13

SimCity 4 is about as good as it gets TBH. Runs a treat on my Mac via a Parallels VM.

Haze · 28 Dec 2011 at 18:25

Anno deffo epic win, not got into the new one tho