All the sounds of the game are expertly crafted and really replicate the noise of a sprawling city. It also adds tension and suspense to your game, even when you are dropping down roads at the start of the game The music makes you feel like you are making one of the most important decisions of your life. The soundtrack fits the game very well, as it invites images of unexplored territory and exploration. The decisions and changes you make in the later stages of the game have a greater impact than the decisions at the beginning. As you start to gain more population this becomes harder because there is more to manage but less space to work with. The challenge of the game comes from balancing your economy and the happiness of your population. It may be harder because you can’t use resources from the surrounding cities in your region but it is totally possible to play the game solo. The game was made with cooperation from other players in mind, but it can still be played completely single player. Maxis did a very good job of balancing single player and multiplayer elements of SimCity. You can concentrate on industry if your land has resources that can be harvested and refined into materials for production and trading, or you could create a tourist city that makes money from having lots of visitors and attractions. There are various different ways to build a city. Each zone will create different buildings: Residential areas will create housing, commercial areas will create shops and industrial areas will create factories. The first thing you should do is build some roads and then “zone” these roads as residential, commercial, or industrial areas. The game will continue to guide you and give you tips along the way. We strongly recommend you play through the tutorial to understand the basics of building a city. Once you’ve selected your region, you can then claim a piece of land as your own, which will become your city. You don’t really “finish” SimCity It can provide never-ending fun and each city and region will be unique, giving the game incredible amounts of replayability. You can continue to build and nurture one city or choose to start a new one whenever you feel like it.
There is no end to SimCity, as it is a sandbox game and you can play it how you want. If you watch our SimCity 5 video you will see some multiplayer features of the new game, such as one that allows me to use excess resources from other cities to help my population. You can join or create public regions or have a private friends-only region. SimCity 5 encourages multiplayer Rather than just building a city alone you can help and rely on others within your region. Once you have your server selected you can load the game and start creating or joining an existing region to begin playing. When you first load the game, you will be asked to select a server. The Gameplay Sim City 5īeing a simulation game, SimCity is a quite slow-paced game, even when you are playing it on “Cheetah speed”. These issues have now been fixed and the game runs very smoothly with little to no errors. There were a mass of server issues that rendered the game unplayable for the first few days of the launch. The launch of SimCty 5 could be described as a disaster akin to the scale of fail of the Diablo 3 launch. Reduced city sizes made many hardcore fans rethink purchasing the new SimCity, and always requiring an online connection to play has never been an attractive feature in any game. However, not everything that developer Maxis and publisher EA put into the game was welcomed with open arms. It runs on a new engine called GlassBox which was developed specifically for this game, allowing for greater simulation than any previous SimCity games. SimCity was released March 5th in the US and March 7th worldwide. You start with a block of land and try to build a profitable city and see how far you can take it. For those that have never played a SimCity game, it is essentially a city-building simulation.