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A challenging and satisfying game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: May 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a long-time player of SimCity, I was attracted to City Life World Edition because of both its similarities to SimCity and its differences.
At first, City Life World Edition appears to be a bit simplistic, but it is far from that. Building a city of millions of people in a wide variety of terrains and climates, while not spending all of your funds on the necessary infrastructure, is very challenging and very rewarding. The game offers a sandbox mode, but the scenarios provide a "gold key" upon winning, and the gold key opens up new maps.
The beautiful graphical interface allows the player to walk around the city at a zoom level that provides amazing detail. Watch your inhabitants as they go about their day, and view first-hand the effect your city design has on them.
There is now a Vista patch for this game, and it runs smoothly under Vista Home Premium on my computer. Running it on Windows XP SP2 is also trouble-free, in my experience. No game will ever run perfectly for everyone, though, but I have had no problems with it.
The Building Customization Editor (which enables the user to create his/her own buildings and import them into the game) is convoluted and basically without documentation. The Map Editor is also difficult to use. But given the fact that the building and map editors are not part of the core game, I have given this game a 5-star rating for its beautiful graphics, unique features, and endless possibilities for either easy or challenging play.

Interesting Twist on "Sim City"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, this game is, pretty much, "Sim City." If you liked Sim City 4, you'd like this game, too.

The twist, though, is that six types of social groups inhabit the city, and these groups may or may not get along. You end up needing all six types to develop your sity to its full potential, so you have to figure out, via city design or other strategies, how to assure that they don't fight with one another.

It's a fun game, and has more than the usual subtleties to it. The version I got had a few language glitches, but runs pretty well. I recommend it for those starved for good sim games lately...like me.

Simcity on Drugs

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has a lot of promise. For anyone that likes the SimCity Franchise this game takes an interesting turn and mostly succeeds. It gets a little overwhelming when the news crew lets you know that the social classes that cant stand each other are living near each other.
This game has great graphics (if Simcity4k had these graphics it would be the best and tough to beat).
The main focus of this game is to build a city in each of the regions. You must balance out the residences where people live, commerce where people work in stores and office buildings and industies where people work in the factories. You can choose from several differnt types of building in each of the zones. The twist that the developers put in this game is the 6 social classes. You have to create a city that is economically stable (watch your finances) and allows the peaceful coexistance of your social classes.
I do miss the random zone generator from Simcity4k. I wasnt too thrilled with players actually placing buildings in your city. I liked the zoning and letting your city dictate what building go where. I was also looking for a little more depth in transportation and it would of been nice to see actual working traffic lights that you can manipulate to allow a better traffic flow.
I'ma realism nut and would like more content and more micromanagement (these are my pet peeves). Seeing more lifelike buildings and a much better City Hall could of increased this games appeal. In other words...a little more detail. The original City Life was very buggy as I was constantly being thrown off the game and onto my desktop. This game loaded great and never had any problems. Make sure StarForce is not the copy protected program on this game. StarForce has been known to destroy DVD and CDRW drives making them not work. All in all this is a good game but it's missing something.
If Simcity 4k and City Life World Edition merged then it would be the best city simulator ever. Lets hope SimcitySocieties is what this is in disguise (both City Life: WE and SC4K). Im skeptical though.
If you like city building games then this one is a decent alternative to SC4k. I play SC4k more though :-)

Can't get it to work...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I cannot get this game to work. I tried on my laptop and was told I needed a dedicated video card to get it to work. Then I got a laptop with a dedicated video card and it doesn't work with vista even with the vista update on their site. Same thing as the other guy...memory errors. They forwarded my setup to their developers as he thought my new setup should work.

Disappointing.. I think I will be sure not to buy this companies games in the future. I don't know who they make them for but definitely not the masses. They should make sure they run on more platforms before releasing them.

FUN and Challenging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Nice game. Alittle like SimCity yet different. If that makes since. Unlike "Societies", you have to start out with a strategy. Placement of buildings are important. Fun game to play. I'm satisfied. I had no problems installing or playing the game with Vista and 2 GB of RAM with GForce 7600 GS video card. Ran smoothly. Make sure nothing is running in the background. CTRL+Alt+DEL to close running processes for all those having problems. Most games today require this.

Very good simulation, great graphics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I did not guess this can be such a good simulation. Simulation rules make sense. Graphics is great and details are done very good.

The only critics is about the performance. I had a Athlon 4800 + 2GRAM but only an on-board 256M NVidia graphics and this was a little slow. Also startup of the software took 2m (I have a SATA 256M Hard).

In general if you have a good PC and a good graphics card this should be fun.

I tried simcity socities before this and it was a terrible unstable software while this one , at least on my PC was stable. By the way it needs NTFS partitions and it will not install on FAT32.

This game takes up too much memory!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 28
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I cannot even get to play it, since it requires so much memory. Out 32.95

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