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Hard to get used to and maneuver around

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge SimCity fan. Play Rush Hour for hours a day, and bought Societies hoping it was the next best thing. It really isn't. I played it as much as I could possibly stand, and have gone back to playing Rush Hour. Society is hard to get used to, and the camera views can be quite difficult to handle. It would take alot of practice and patience to get the hang of it right away.

Easy, fun game to feel omnipotence for a while.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few months ago despite the bad reviews and I am glad I did not listen. This is a fun, entertaining, easy game when you just have 15 or 20 minutes to just enjoy a fun activity. All the bugs have been fixed or can be if you go to the simcity societies website and download the latest game update (#4 now). This update even has new add ons, like alien invasion, creature invasion etc.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's a pretty good game. Some things are better than the older simcity games - like not having such a hard time growing the city, not needing the things like water and powerlines, no building maintenance costs and being able to set it up with unlimited money and all buildings unlocked. However, it would have been nice to have these features with everything else from the old game. Having to place each individual building makes it extremely difficult to have anything approaching the size of an actual "city." And the values thing you need to keep track of is at least as restricting as the old version - you end up having to place decorations in very unusual places to do what you want. Hopefully the next version of SimCity goes back to placing zones but keeps the other things that kept you from doing what you want - or at least gives you the option to.

waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall this game has completely disappointed me. I've been playing Sims 2 and the Civilization series for a very long time and so I've really grown to love management and development games. One of my friends suggested i look into Simcity because it falls in more of a middle area between the two game types.

Unfortunately i started with simcity societies. This game seems like a very simple game where the only real point is to drop random buildings down and try to create one of 6 ideal society types. The buildings have no real relation to one another. For instance if i put a trash collecting plant down it really has no effect on anything especially the cleanliness of the city. If i put a burger joint down versus a tanning salon there is no real difference accept that one may make more money then the other.

You never feel like your managing a living breathing city which really should be the goal. You can't really make any personal touches to anything. And by the end of it all you've earned is a trophy or two that don't give anything worthwhile and an empty feeling that you tend to get after wasting alot of time doing absolutely nothing,

Hopefully this series dies with this one or moves back to its roots and dumps the current development team.

Simply not SimCity

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've already read many of the reviews posted here, so I can but reiterate what many folks have already clearly stated: if you're a "die-hard" SimCity fan, think long and hard before spending the money to purchase this game, as you're likely in for a thorough disappointment. SimCity Societies is a remarkably childish departure from the SimCity series and, though the graphics are fantastic and the gameplay is at least mildly engaging, no elements of hardcore city-building and strategy are present. The importance of themes is a tad underwhelming - you make a highly creative, bohemian city and the roads become yellow-brick, complete with peppermint stick street signs...oh wow! - and most disappointingly of all, the game is easy. Mind-bogglingly easy. Easy with a capital "e." Anybody who has read the game instruction book and possesses a very minimum of patience can achieve (probably in no more than 1-2 hours), a fully functioning, prosperous city, molded into any one of the predefined themes that you choose.

Hopefully, the influence of this travesty of a game won't carry forward into future SimCity titles. If so, the franchise has abandoned its heritage and is in serious trouble.

Not Your Usual Sim City Title

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Much of what hardcore Sim City fans love about previous games are missing from Societies. However, there are some fun new features and aspects of this new take on Sim City.

This game will require a lot from your graphics card, and you may even need to upgrade just to get the game to start.

Overall, definitely not the best Sim City game of all time. It wasn't what I was particularly hoping for in the next installation of Sim City, but it's fun to play for a little while. I'm still waiting for Sim City 5.

Don't go near this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

ok, so, theres not much i can say about this game. mainly because it wont start up! i have all the system requirements. i'm running windows XP media center edition. i'm on patch #5 already and it still won't start up. unfortunately, i didn't read the other reviews about this game before i got it and i'm sad that I didn't. and their tech support is no help whatsoever. they have nothing in there about this error. trust me, i checked everywhere. and it won't uninstall. well, thats spelling out *Virus like Software!* right there. i heard theres alot of other bugs with this game. so i'm sure that evem if i do just happen to get it running, something else is bound to happen. so, basically, i really can't recommend this game at all.

sim societies is dissappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a fan of the sim city games so I was pumped up about the new entry, sim societies. But I can tell you, dont waste your money. It is dull, there is no point to the simulation. I think they missed the the concept on this game. Too bad. It is not on my recommendation list.

Intresting Concept, not very well executed...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game a fair shake, and I have mixed opinions on it. Personally I like this new style of Sim City, just my personal taste. If you were a fan of Tropico, this will feel vaguely familiar, only 57 (or 58 if you're reading this in 2008) years later. Basically you place roads, houses, places for people to work, and services for the people. So far it's exactly like Tropico. Except that is where Tropico continues to expand, and Sim City Societies just remains at that. Sure you have to continue to build to get new buildings, but there's not much left. In Tropico you had to keep the people happy, foreign nations happy, balance the economy properly, and remain in office. In this game, keeping people happy is simplified to just putting a bunch of services for people next to housing, no foreign nations to keep happy, no economy to balance (you only spend money when you build something, only the amount you make changes), and you can't be ousted as far as I've seen. This has the underlying basis for a real 5-star game, but doesn't quite make it there.

Don't buy this one yet !!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is NOT "SimCity 5." It's childish, and easy to beat, but still pretty to look at, and might do in the "time killing" category. Basically, it's an interactive screen-saver with a Sims theme.

HOWEVER: it is a total system-crasher, and until they fix it, I urgently advise holding off. Once your city reaches a certain size, the game begins to freeze, constantly---meaning that you can only play less than half the game.

MORE IMPORTANT: it did something to my DVD drive, so that it no longer plays any other games!!! I got bored with the constant lockups, and threw in GTA SanAndreas---and it won't run anymore! neither will Halo.

The DVD drive itself is fine---still plays SimCity Societies---but it won't let me play any other game!!! I'm still working on it. Stay tuned.

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