Xeserox of Just Press Start writes:
"It’s been over 8 years since SimCity 4 was released by Maxis. Die hard fans will also mention SimCity Societies, which wasn’t created by Maxis but by Tilted Mill Games, released in 2007. It’s been a while since we have seen something as complex as SimCity, and something as innovative as SimCity Societies released in the genre. I would like to introduce all you city builders out there to CitiesXL 2012, released by Focus Home Interactive. It was released as an Expansion to CitiesXL 2011, but for those of us that don’t have that, it was also released as a stand alone game.
How does this city simulator stand up against the behemoth that is SimCity? You know how to find out by now."
The general consensus is that whilst SimCity is potentially a good game, it’s not a great city builder. The size, scale, and depth of the game, including how everything is managed is very formulaic – and many people have said it’s not unlike Facebook flash games in the way that you progress. Your ultimate goal isn’t simply managing a vast and complex city, so much as working with friends to support each-other, aiming for one of the monumental region structures, for the benefit of everyone in the region.
Publisher Electronic Art’s latest city-building game is struggling. SimCity requires a constant connection to the Internet, but its servers are collapsing under high demand. Gamers can’t even start playing. Others are losing progress as connections timeout and the game fails to save. It’s a mess. EA is trying to fix the problem by adding new servers, but that could take a couple of days.
In the meantime, plenty of similar games are out and available even if you don’t have a reliable connection.
Anno has junk DRM, too. Not always-online, but activation limit without any revoke tools. I wanna try Cities XL, though.
Cities xl needs to be optimized. Once you reach a certain amount the game just slows down. Regardless of how much your pc can handle it. I have it and it pretty good. Just thats one of the major issues about It
I dont know if its just me but sim city 4 was Hard i could never balance it hospitals cost too much
Cites XL 2012 looks really cool. Might check that game out when I get the money. Any other recommendations?
When you hear about certain genres of games headed to consoles, it is easy to be excited or just not even care about it. You know if the mechanics will work or not just by hearing something like "console MMO". The Wii U can take these genres and make console life actually work.
RTS, Maybe?
I can picture myself playing some really cool RTS's on the Wii U like pikmin
The genre that most famous on nintendo consoles is shovelware and I don't think that going to change with the wii U
Troll much? Anyways besides your stupid ass comment I'm looking forward to how a Zelda game is going to work..apparently this troll above me forgot what the highest rated series is..
gaming advice from a user with a final fantasy 13 avatar...move on people. change it to final fantasy 10, and i will listen. anyway, back on topic. It seems like you do not know anything about nintendo. wait a minute...only nintendo knowledge seems to be from trolls during the Wii era...great, another "gaming expert" who bought their first console 2 years ago. troll is obvious
I gave a disagree to him for his comment. Final Fantasy preference had nothing to do with it.
Should be interesting to see how new tech will change up the wii's gameplay. I get the sense we don't have much more than a small idea of what it can do.
I would love to be able to play a civ game on my couch with just a controller...
MMORPG's could do very well on the system with the touchscreen interface. Of course, those games would have to make the transition from the PC market, but I'm sure they could do well.
