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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.

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.

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!

disappointing step down from previous games

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

What was perhaps the most disappointing thing in a long list of disappointments about this game was that it did not build off of previous SimCity versions. It threw out everything good and started from scratch, and this SimCity bears no resemblance to the other games I loved. Perhaps most egregiously, it imparts no real wisdom as to the cause-and-effect nature of the ecological and societal impacts of the buildings you place. All in all, not at all fun, doesn't really make any sense at all! And I had such high hopes.

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.

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.

So-So Effort, but not a true Sim City

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is probably good for people coming from The Sims line of games who want to try out Sim City for the first time. However, for someone like me that has played the Sim City series from the beginning, it is a huge letdown. If Maxis were still designing the game, they would never have let it fall so far. The game is semi-entertaining for the first 2 or 3 times you play it, but after that it will get very dusty on the shelf.
Technical issues / complaints:
RESOURCE HOG! If your machine has less RAM than a server, and/or a graphics card that is more than a week old, it is probably too weak to really handle this game.
Play DVD. Even with the registration code, you still need to have the DVD in the drive to play the game. This is beyond annoying if you're taking it along on your laptop as a little downtime diversion.
Graphics can get jumpy, and can also develop lines going across the screen.
Even with the latest update, the game still likes to blow up every so often. So, save your city often!

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.

Don't Buy This Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

You know, I loved all of the Simcity games and didn't hesitate when I saw this sitting on the shelf. I won't bore you with a lengthy description, just read the lengthy review of the guy before me - I agree with everything he said exactly spot on. I'll add a bit though, if you are like me, and absolutely annoyed with our media and government hammering us with that "Global Warming" hoax you won't be disappointed in this game. As soon as I saw that my city (which functioned completely on hydrogen power) was causing natural disasters in other parts of the world I turned it off. The final insult from EA on this flaming-turd of a game? It won't uninstall. Thanks EA, I'll spend the next three hours of my Sunday afternoon trying to get your propaganda filled, virus-like software cleansed from my system. Too bad EA doesn't sell digital disinfectant.

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.

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