All of this faux simulation comes at a cost, a crippling reduction in city plot size.
The promise was made of the engine simulating each individual Sim, yet only a simulacrum of this effect is afforded to players. Sims will go to work at the nearest possible vacant job, regardless of what it is, and then go to sleep in the nearest possible house, regardless of who’s it is. The GlassBox engine also has glaring issues. Sometimes produce sells and sometimes it inexplicable piles up in storage. Cities simply produce whatever they can and try to export it. It is hard to ascertain whether it is poorly implemented, or is fundamentally broken it might even be a misjudged communist allegory, who knows. The in-game economy is an indecipherable mess. However, after you’ve built a couple of, cities some glaring faults become devastatingly apparent. When the cities are fully built they do look spectacular and will not visually disappoint. Specialisation options add a level of depth while facilitating region interaction which is great for replay value, as well as for the trading options that arise from this.
If it charged by the hour you’d start working nights to afford it. From the satisfying click of a building plopping into place to its primary coloured information maps, every inch of SimCity is engineered to induce exploitative endorphin rushes of triumph. The game will seduce and rob you of hours and days while you organise and design your own metropolitan utopia. This said, players will find themselves coming back to this game in spite of its many faults because, unfortunately, there’s just nothing else like it. Unfortunately, due to terrible server infrastructure, foresight and generally negligent design, SimCity feels like more of a regression than anything new. The game promises new multiplayer options, city designs and a renewed focus upon social interaction, encouraging players to work with friends in the same region. In what was possibly the most shambolic and controversial game launch of all time, the new SimCity has finally been released, over a decade since the last instalment, SimCity 4.
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