SimCity

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2.2

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  1. Broyax
    Jun 30, 2023
    0
    Une version sensiblement modernisée du fameux ‘SimCity’ est sortie en 2013, entièrement en 3D désormais et assez jolie, même maintenant en 2023 ! j’étais tombé en tout cas sur ce SimCity dans un bac à soldes, bien après son lancement… pour un euro et un Mars ou bien c’était juste deux balles, je ne me souviens plus…

    J’avais vu les mauvaises notes, les très mauvaises notes qui faisaient    Une version sensiblement modernisée du fameux ‘SimCity’ est sortie en 2013, entièrement en 3D désormais et assez jolie, même maintenant en 2023 ! j’étais tombé en tout cas sur ce SimCity dans un bac à soldes, bien après son lancement… pour un euro et un Mars ou bien c’était juste deux balles, je ne me souviens plus…

    J’avais vu les mauvaises notes, les très mauvaises notes qui faisaient de ce ‘SimCity’ une immense déception et surtout un gros jeu de merde ! je crois que les gens ralaient surtout (et à juste titre) sur cette daube d’Origin puisque SC était lié à cette daube et ne pouvait évidemment pas marcher sans elle. J’avais donc posé le boîtier sur l’étagère, puis il est resté ainsi… jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

    Parfois, même les jeux de merde peuvent trouver leur rédemption et devenir éventuellement… et simplement médiocres ! (cf Cyberbug woke 2077 par exemple !) au fil d’innombrables patchs… Mais là, le problème demeure : pour jouer en solo, il faut être connecté à internet ! bien que parfois. le jeu semble fonctionner en solo et hors-ligne mais c’est sans compter sur cette méga bouse d’Origin !

    Non, que dis-je, ça a changé -je ne sais pas quand- mais c’est ‘Ea App’ désormais ! les concurrents de Steamprout ont connu des hauts et des bas mais se sont toujours améliorés avec le temps… même le lanceur d’Ubichiottes -malgré ses changements de nom- fonctionne correctement… encore que… justement, ubichiottes con-nect fait une màj, puis un message d’erreur apparaît… GOG pour sa part est devenu bien pratique et reste le seul sans saloperie de DRM ! Quant à Epic truc, il pourrait être… digne de confiance ?! -non, faut pas déconner, c’est la succursale de Tiktok, le renifleur communiste !

    Mais Origin qui était assez daubé, est remplacé par ‘Ea App’ encore plus daubé ! en mode hors-ligne, tout disparaît de l’interface, hormis les liens des jeux censés fonctionner… hors-ligne ! or, ça ne marche qu’une fois sur deux ou sur trois et de fait, la daube SimCity ne veut fonctionner que quand la daube EA App est con-nectée.

    Donc, va chier EA la worst company et si vous ne supportez plus le windaube 7, vous n’avez qu’a le dire ! pareil pour Ubichiottes qui vient de foutre en l’air son lanceur, devenu une simple nullité. Le PC, l’obsolescence et la soumission programmée par une bande de mange-merdes au service de la corpo Grosoft qui veut fourguer encore plus de windaubes 10/11 ! (ce sont des gros renifleurs eux aussi, d’ailleurs).

    Donc, si vous avez acheté un jeu à un temps ‘T’, eh bien à un certain moment, à savoir plus tard (mais inéluctablement), le jeu ne fonctionnera plus ! pareil pour cet étron no man’s sky par exemple, qui marchait avec 7 mais l’un des patchs l’a transformé en jeu windaube 10 ! et tu peux donc aller chier. Et après, ils vont se plaindre du ‘piratage’… nan mais… sans déconner !    … Expand
  2. Crimson9
    Dec 24, 2022
    0
    Another example of EA greed butchering a franchise. Very depressing. This is a downgrade from simcity 4 in every way.
  3. Mythdon
    Nov 16, 2021
    4
    The only thing about SimCity (2013) that stands out to me is the fact that it's in 3D, but other than that, it's overall lackluster, even for a SimCity. The ControlNet complicates the game so much without adding any fun to it, you're stuck only with only a few premade regions that are so small (and can't add or make your own custom-made regions, like you could in SimCity 4) makes thisThe only thing about SimCity (2013) that stands out to me is the fact that it's in 3D, but other than that, it's overall lackluster, even for a SimCity. The ControlNet complicates the game so much without adding any fun to it, you're stuck only with only a few premade regions that are so small (and can't add or make your own custom-made regions, like you could in SimCity 4) makes this version of SimCity feel so limited. Besides being in 3D, being in Sandbox Mode and adding ControlNet, it's mostly just a rehash of the previous SImCity games while also being a major step-down. It's still a fun game to play but if you're wanting a more serious, more detailed kind of city simulation, I heavily recommend SimCity 4 or Cities: Skylines over this disaster of a not city building simulation.… Expand
  4. Misterdiony
    May 18, 2021
    4
    SimCity was one of my hype games and I bought it on release day years ago. They managed to not let people play the game ON RELEASE DAY. Well, after some time a lot was fixed but the game remained underwhelming. Good for all city building enthusiast, 2 years later another company took the chance to create a city builder that the community wants - and is to this day successful with it. MoneySimCity was one of my hype games and I bought it on release day years ago. They managed to not let people play the game ON RELEASE DAY. Well, after some time a lot was fixed but the game remained underwhelming. Good for all city building enthusiast, 2 years later another company took the chance to create a city builder that the community wants - and is to this day successful with it. Money is not everything, but for EA it is.… Expand
  5. Robims
    Apr 5, 2021
    4
    1. The traffic without the Airships DLC is awful.
    2.The city's can be very small. (If you want to have fun with the game for a long time then you're devinitely wrong here.)
    3. The game is bad optimized. (I have a good pc and the game only runs with 40 FPS.)
    4. The graphics are too playful.
    5. The game is to easy.
  6. EliRayK
    Feb 27, 2021
    0
    Boring game Not Much To Do The Game Is Too Easy I'll Never Play Simcity Again
  7. guitarmaniac004
    Feb 1, 2021
    4
    March 5th 2015, the day EA **** up one of the best city building game series of all time. What the hell were they thinking?
  8. ORIOLE
    Jan 30, 2021
    2
    It's bad as they said in 2013, developers never played older Sim CIty.
    Finite and scarce resource, you are obliged to follow the steps the developers planned for your gameplay, it starts with coal in early game and obligatorily change to clean energy in late game, there's no choice.
    Small minigame maps that compels you to construct Mega Towers to compensate the small space, no farms, no suburb.
  9. Alekol
    Jan 14, 2021
    0
    The game is just awful, not realistic. EA didn't take care of the servers in the online game. A city is just a square, and when it ends, another city will be needed ...
  10. DawnOfSili
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    Terrible game. Total betrayal of the city builder genre. It runs terribly, and the company in charge (EA) completely ruined any chance of this game living longer than 6 months.
  11. BowLL
    Nov 22, 2020
    4
    after playing this game, i regret it a bit.

    this game has great graphics, catchy music, decent game mechanics when you're building a city. but HOLY crap, looking at the other reviews, i'm definitely disappointed with the fact that online playing is broken, and it's created by EA, so you KNOW that EA doesn't give a freaking crap about refund. they just want you to literally keep the    after playing this game, i regret it a bit.

    this game has great graphics, catchy music, decent game mechanics when you're building a city.
    but HOLY crap, looking at the other reviews, i'm definitely disappointed with the fact that online playing is broken, and it's created by EA, so you KNOW that EA doesn't give a freaking crap about refund. they just want you to literally keep the game for what the game price is.    … Expand
  12. neddread
    Nov 16, 2020
    0
    This review is made in 2020, and it is purely based on gameplay.
    So 7 years after launch (which I went through, it was a nightmare) and I reinstalled after a long time away to see if it had improved....it has not.
    The buildings still look really nice, but the snapping build method it uses ends up making the city looking random and ugly with big holes that don't fill in with anything, and    This review is made in 2020, and it is purely based on gameplay.
    So 7 years after launch (which I went through, it was a nightmare) and I reinstalled after a long time away to see if it had improved....it has not.
    The buildings still look really nice, but the snapping build method it uses ends up making the city looking random and ugly with big holes that don't fill in with anything, and the holes are too small to put anything in them. The balance of the game is still very broken and you can be left with a city that goes nowhere. Example: It will inform you that there is a worker shortage but insist you should increase building shops and industries.
    The tiny size of the cities are still an issue and after a few hours you've filled up the space and playing more becomes boring. Sure you can get another city going in the region, but it's not the same as having a massive, bustling city we used to make in the old simcity games.
    And that's why I reinstalled this clusterflip, because I bought Simcity4 from GOG and was blown away at how much better it was in comparison.
    Such a disappointing experience from a title that used to be the best in it's class.
    Buy any other version of this series except this one.    … Expand
  13. SrCre
    Mar 10, 2020
    4
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    Não vejo necessidade em escrever um longo texto analisando uma arte, a nota é apenas um conselho para saber o quanto ela vale para sua vida.

    I see no need to write a long text analyzing an art, the note is just a piece of advice to know how much it is worth in your life.
  14. GoodMorningAss
    Jan 29, 2020
    0
    the server is full, he give me a choice to choose another server but the save on new server is not sync, that mean you have to play a new game in every new server what a stupid design, I agree
  15. MazrimTaim14
    Oct 14, 2019
    1
    Tried to played it on release. couldn't play a single player game due to unnecessary multiplayer set up. Had it at 0.

    Played the game finally and got not a city builder game but more on a block builder game. Cant even get the size of Manhattan. Had it still at 0. Played years later and it seems like i can rate it at 2 or 3 but found out the crashing of loss of net connection was a    Tried to played it on release. couldn't play a single player game due to unnecessary multiplayer set up. Had it at 0.

    Played the game finally and got not a city builder game but more on a block builder game. Cant even get the size of Manhattan. Had it still at 0.

    Played years later and it seems like i can rate it at 2 or 3 but found out the crashing of loss of net connection was a deliberate part on the developers and also contrasted this game to Cities Skylines. The game this should have been then we find ourselves at 1.

    I know people complain that every release of NBA2K, Fifa or COD are the same every year but those are released EVERY YEAR. we get city simulators every 4 to 6 years so I cant complain if it is not THAT different from the previous game. Quality of life improvements and feedback from player suggestions can go a long way.    … Expand
  16. Nekellor
    Aug 1, 2018
    3
    Нормальная музыка. Ужасная картонная графика. Неправдоподобное, легко изменяемая система развития города. Забагованность, вылеты. И просто скучно. На один присест.
  17. Pogrebnyak880
    Apr 18, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Я ожидал что simcity 5 будет лучше чем прошлая часть, но как то состоялся релиз и поиграл, хрен тебе. Как только я купил эту игру в Ориджине и скачал, у меня при запуске сначала выдавалась ошибка, что из-за чего мне пришлось перезапускать игру. Вообще лучше купить Cities: Skylines.… Expand
  18. Mascalzone
    Jul 8, 2017
    2
    I agree with the mean of the user score, even if I'm a professional reviewer and I've to give it a vote near 6 (55). I TRIED to play it at day one with the problems you witnessed. Then tried to play it after update 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. No way, SimCity is fundamentally broken. A piece of s**t, in other words. Will Wright, please make it properly (better than SC4!) via Kickstarter, we'll finance it.
  19. Toxsick
    Feb 3, 2017
    0
    This review won't be very detailed. It's simple: Buy cities skyline. Leave this crappy bunch of scripts on the shelf.
    It's simply better in every single way except for the online part. And anyways, in sim city you can't build cities but only small districts, i think more info is not even necessary.
  20. Stephenicus
    Jan 29, 2017
    1
    This new SimCity game completely ignores and butchers all standards set by the previous games. Rather than having diverse city-scapes with mixtures of dense, medium and low zoning areas, ranging from farms to suburbs to down down metros, you get a very dense, very congested square. Industry is limited to a single edge of the square, so sims don't get sick, and anything extra you might wantThis new SimCity game completely ignores and butchers all standards set by the previous games. Rather than having diverse city-scapes with mixtures of dense, medium and low zoning areas, ranging from farms to suburbs to down down metros, you get a very dense, very congested square. Industry is limited to a single edge of the square, so sims don't get sick, and anything extra you might want to build, like the Statue of Liberty, or even a hospital, requires the destruction of something else because every space becomes occupies within the first hour of playing a city. Every city is the same size, and building anything outside of the limited squares is off limits, even in the worlds themselves. Other Sim City games let the players edit the worlds. Not this one. This SimCity game is extremely limiting, and I curse EA for destroying yet another awesome franchise.… Expand
  21. reviewfrom19842
    Aug 31, 2016
    1
    Horrible awfully boring game a shameless way for EA to get more money it might be fun for about 3 minutes but that's it..............................
  22. Lore91
    Apr 3, 2016
    0
    the most ugly game ever played in my entire life!
    Most defective of all humanity
    most fail every existing thing
    Do not buy it, if you've already bought yourself a refund!
  23. Avalon011
    Mar 30, 2016
    0
    This game has one serious design flaw, what happens when the city runs out of water? Water in Simcity is the most precious commodity in the game but theirs no way to replenish the water once it runs out which isn't long. As of the latest patch 10.3 the sewer treatment plant no longer produces water! They broke the game.

    Even EA of all people saw fit to shutter Maxis.
  24. rhansonn
    Mar 24, 2016
    0
    This game has a lot of issues... Online multiplayer is pretty much unusable, unable to share anything with your neighboring cities without sitting around for an hour waiting for it to come through, whether its sharing resources, or unlocking something for your region, it just doesn't work.

    When you claim a new city plot, you will have to wait a very long time to gain access to all of    This game has a lot of issues... Online multiplayer is pretty much unusable, unable to share anything with your neighboring cities without sitting around for an hour waiting for it to come through, whether its sharing resources, or unlocking something for your region, it just doesn't work.

    When you claim a new city plot, you will have to wait a very long time to gain access to all of the unlocked features in the region. (I tend to claim a city, send some money from a neighboring city, and go do something else for a couple hours while the city slowly gains access.)

    City plots are incredibly small, compared to it's predecessors, its unreasonably tough to work with.

    Road options are just terrible, apparently major highways have traffic lights now-a-days, the designers threw away any possibility for realistic road layouts; one-way streets, high-way junctions, on/off ramps. This really just doesn't make sense.

    MegaTowers tend to up and fail after a few gameplay months. "There's no school" - it's right next to you. "Theres no shopping" - it's right below you, and said store is begging for shoppers. This isn't due to traffic issues, or a wealth mis-match, its an obvious defect.

    They game looks great - but is a blatant fail in terms of usability.

    Once again I find myself losing confidence in EA.    … Expand
  25. Silverzapper
    Jan 31, 2016
    2
    This game is the perfect example of what happens when you rush a game out for sales alone. The city sizes are tiny and things don't work how they're supposed to. The sims are terribly programmed causing one of my roads to be stuck in gridlock and the other almost completely empty. Once I reached a high enough population my sewage system stopped functioning and my city was ruined. When aThis game is the perfect example of what happens when you rush a game out for sales alone. The city sizes are tiny and things don't work how they're supposed to. The sims are terribly programmed causing one of my roads to be stuck in gridlock and the other almost completely empty. Once I reached a high enough population my sewage system stopped functioning and my city was ruined. When a game requires mods just to work you know it's a bad game. Don't buy this. It's bad even with mods.… Expand
  26. gordonbays
    Jan 19, 2016
    0
    I play this game since psone and i can guaratee that Sim City 5 is the worst game of the serie. I mean, it doesn't even have a name! Some people call SimCity 5, other Sim City 2013.
    This game sucks, the map is very, very small. The water is limited. New resources wont last few hours!

    Pros: polished graphics, thats all!
  27. jsoo
    Jan 2, 2016
    0
    This game is so bad compared to Simcity 4. The map where you can build on is way too small, there is no agriculture available, there are no driving missions, the graphics are disappointing, the cooperation possible between cities is **** and there are no ordinances as in Simcity 4 in the game. I recommend not to play this game, if you want to play SImcity you should play Simcity 4. SimcityThis game is so bad compared to Simcity 4. The map where you can build on is way too small, there is no agriculture available, there are no driving missions, the graphics are disappointing, the cooperation possible between cities is **** and there are no ordinances as in Simcity 4 in the game. I recommend not to play this game, if you want to play SImcity you should play Simcity 4. Simcity 5 is crap, Simcity 4 is great though!!!… Expand
  28. LordSolidus
    Dec 12, 2015
    1
    Simcity is the worst simcity game ever, NO challenge, easy as hell, small maps (too small), multiplayer is wortless, too many ppl just enter your region and leave after about 1-2 hour's and don't return
    DO NOT BUY
  29. saris1
    Aug 3, 2015
    1
    What were they thinking? So to keep out pirates they screw paying customers. Nice. Guess what? The pirated version actually works properly and doesn't depend on servers that crash your game all of the time.

    So... I paid and got reamed. Pirates did not pay and got a playable game.

    Nice work EA, well done.
  30. iduncan91
    May 20, 2015
    0
    EA destroys every good thing they get their greedy hands on: SimCity, the Sims, Battlefront. If you want a city building game go purchase Cities: Skylines. SimCity is dead and Cities: Skylines has been built to replace it because face it, EA rapes whatever they can get their hands on.
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64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 75
  3. Negative: 10 out of 75
  1. PC Master (Greece)
    Jun 5, 2013
    65
    Given enough patches and DCLs, SimCity might eventually become the game that should have been on its release and justify the ambiguous choices that its developers made. [May 2013]
  2. Games Master UK
    May 9, 2013
    68
    Hints at great things but is limited by small cities and promises it can't deliver on. [June 2013, p.80]
  3. Hyper Magazine
    May 9, 2013
    40
    There's more problems with this game than I have words. Looks great though. [June 2013, p.80]
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