Simcity Societies

TheKnat · 8 Nov 2007 at 12:42

Anyone going to get this game when it comes out in 8 days ?

I'm thinking about it, but hoping that a demo comes out before hand so I can give it a go. I think the new changes will make the game a lot more accessible to other people, but on the other hand it sound likes the game will be easier to predict what will happen. Hopefully this won't make it boring and there will still be a bit of a random factor to the game.

mohawk · 8 Nov 2007 at 13:17

i quite enjoy the sim city games, but i doubt i will have enough time to buy it, with all the other games coming out at the moment. but i will prolly buy it later to play over christmas.

TheKnat · 8 Nov 2007 at 13:20

That is a slight problem that there are other games coming out at the same time, which would normally take away the time to play this game.

But seeing as I won't have a good PC at the time, only my Mac laptop, this looks like a good game for me to pick up.

bloodline76 · 8 Nov 2007 at 13:23

never even heard about it. pictures??

TheKnat · 8 Nov 2007 at 13:24

IGN Link for it: LINK

Curio · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:01

Trailer here: http://media.video.ign.com/ev/av.ht...s_073007_001_flvhighwide.flv&object_ID=925931

I'm a massive fan of SimCity, but at the same time I believe it really does need an overhaul. Societies could be fantastic.....but it could also be a disaster. I'm almost nervous

nin9abadga · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:01

like the op i'd like a demo first. i was really looking forward to the next version of ceasar 3 but it was rubbish, and railroads which was also rubbish. i hope this one isn't!

point decay · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:08

didnt know about this, there goes six months of life again..

TheKnat · 8 Nov 2007 at 16:44

Baked said:
didnt know about this, there goes six months of life again..

That depends really. The game doesn't seem to be as anal as it was before with the money management. Instead your managing peoples happiness.

Its does seem thought that you'll end up playing a few times through to see what buildings you want and then planing your whole city around getting the requirements for it.

me227 · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:05

Yeah it could go either way really. Sounds nice the concept of making the different style of cities.

tomanders91 · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:15

it does look good, but i dont like the fact that the scale isnt as big as the old games, its appparently much more zoomed in, and you cant make the huge cities you could in SC4 with hundreads of thousands of people living there.

vincent1989 · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:20

me227 said:
Yeah it could go either way really. Sounds nice the concept of making the different style of cities.

totalitarian super city here i come :cool:

TheKnat · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:10

Looks like you can also make a haunted city somehow... now that sounds fun.

Posty · 8 Nov 2007 at 19:00

yeah i plan to get it

Ed · 8 Nov 2007 at 21:00

Already preordered it and can't wait. I'm new to the series having not played the previous so my expectations haven't been set. Only other city building games I've played are things like Caesar which I love.

PiKe · 14 Nov 2007 at 09:53

Any reviews of this yet?

knowledge123 · 14 Nov 2007 at 10:08

PiKe said:
Any reviews of this yet?

Here are a couple.

mohawk · 14 Nov 2007 at 10:10

and another one here http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=87312

doesnt look like its getting the best reviews

PiKe · 14 Nov 2007 at 10:13

Bah sounds a bit of a let down

Ed · 14 Nov 2007 at 11:11

I don't think it's a bad game, just different from expectations of the hardcore SimCity fans. I loved Caesar IV from Tilted Mill, the developers of SimCity Societies and see no reason why this game shouldn't be as good or better.