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A Hybrid with little depth of play but fun for new gamers

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have played Sim City and The Sims and liked the idea of building a city based on community values. But this is more of a pretty construction set than a challenging game. First there is no depth to that promised value system. You can put in lots of temples and churches, Orwellian interrogation sites or get heavy into high rises, but you the game play does not differ significantly from one value system to the next. Buildings give or take away points and you are forced to do silly things like insert a ridiculous number of fountains or Real estate offices in order to get enough Prosperity points to build seemingly unrelated items like golf courses, restuarants and hair salons. Adding three fountains to build a hair salon isn't very challenging.

I was hoping that you could stipulate a series of values and let them determine how the people reacted, rather than just building pretty cities. As mentioned in another review, as long as the power is on, you can build a huge city with no water treatment plant, sewerage system or garbage collection. The idea behind the game is a good one but I think combining that idea with the Sim City format was not. The game concept would work much better as an interactive adventure where you play a character and interact directly with citizens to learn how to navigate in their society.

The game ran pretty well on my system but the auto saves were annoying as they occur often and completely halt game play while the program writes to disk. I also found the road tool to be problematic as it seldom correctly reads a simple turn, creating instead a small maze of roadways.

I bought the game yesterday, played it for about 4 hours and the result of that is a medium sized city, lots of medals that don't mean much and a crew of happy citizens. I used the tutorial to start and then built the majority on my own using the "normal" level of difficulty. Since I don't have gigs to burn on my hard drive, I will probably take this game off by tomorrow and end up passing it on to a family member. If you are new to gaming and want to have some fun I highly recommend it as it is much easier to do well in this game than either Sims or Sim City. You can even use it to teach your young kids about living "green," showing them firsthand the effects of pollution and overcrowding.

If you are a serious gamer not into teaching children, you will likely get bored very quickly and should probably skip this one.

Fun for the first 30 minutes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is fun and entertaining until it starts to crash without letting the player to fully unlock all the medals and trophies. After 30-40 minutes it starts to crash constantly. There is no fun in always having to start over ever so often.

Sim Societies

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I might be able to write a credible review, but it wont even run on my system! I'm running XP Pro, 4gb memory, S3 video, but only displays black background with green outlines if you zoom out. Totally frustrating, I don't bother with this any more.

Do not buy this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game has many things wrong with it, not like bugs, but frustrating things.

Despite everything you hear about this being a "fresh new direction for simcity", this is not a simcity game, this is a simcity failure.

Just look at how, just a few months after it's release, it's already being sold at half price & there are a plethora of used copies for sale for the price of a cheap keychain.

A so-so game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I ended up selling this game to some one. It's decent and definately has better graphics than the past sim cities. However, I found the game play to be poor and generally boring. Once I created the city, it got boring really fast. I think it could use more mini games or something like that. Buy it and play it. But you may get sick of it quicker than you think.

Very Interesting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a really fun game. Even though it's got a lot of bad reviews because of its simplicity and many problems, I think this game is very fun and interesting. It really has changed since SimCity 4, which is also a great game, but they are good changes. The 3D engine is awesome(even though it's a little slow), especially since you can see the sky, and I like the sandbox mode, where you can create the city of your dreams! The updates have added more features to the game, so they are a big part of the game. Very Fun!

TERRIBLE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ever since I downloaded this game, my system has been falling apart. The game was never much fun anyway, since it kept crashing. I truly regret purchasing this game.

Absolutely unentertaining to the nth degree

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I started the game, it was full of bugs. Okay. I can live with that. The first 30 seconds or so, it was halfway fun, or at least decent. But the problem is that, first of all, the scoring and building requirements for this game make no sense whatsoever (this building exudes creative energy, this building uses it up - whaa??), and it has nearly nothing to do with the old SimCity games, and what made them so great - dealing with the public on terms of crime, taxes, budget, development, etc.

Basically, all you do in this game is place buildings. There is no money involved whatsoever. Once a particular "energy" is at a certain level (which is virtually effortless to bring about), you can add another building. That's it. SimCity on the SNES had more interesting gameplay.

Long story short, this game isn't worth the money no matter what you pay for it. Games are supposed to be amusements and entertainments, not studies in how to made something as redundantly inactive as possible.

Cannot even access game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 16 year old son for Christmas who specifically asked for it by name. He has 3 of the previous games. He and I were both disappointed for purchasing a game that cannot even play on our computer. After reading the entire box for system requirements, much internet searching and contacting EA games directly, turns out our video card is not supported. So, no game for u. There should have been something indicated somewhere identifying the video card needed for this game to make people aware there could be a problem.

Sim Societies Review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think this is easier than Sim City 4, but too easy that some of the excitement disappeared. It is also less simulative of real city processes as Sim City 4.

They should just have refined Sim City 4 by including export economies, import and export, banking, stock market, etc... as sort of a mixture of Sim City 4 and Capitalism Plus.

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