Then again, I also have a ton of ridges and plateaus that use up my limited space, and I don’t see any way to flatten them. Kyle: That said, I have 35,000 residents and I’m almost out of space, so they are really inefficient.Peter: Well the thing is, I want clean, well-educated cities, and that is expensive.They make the city look more natural, and I'm not that concerned about just min-maxing. I have wanted curved roads for so long, but I’m only building grids, because space is so tight. We'll have a more detailed review later when we've had a chance to try out the final release, complete with all the globally connected, Internet-enabled features EA has been playing up, but just going by first impressions, maybe EA shouldn't have messed with its successful city building formula quite so much. What follows are edited excerpts from the various conversations we had over instant messaging this weekend, discussing how we were finding our initial time with the game. Even without access to the full global servers, which EA hasn't turned on yet, we were excited to try promised new features like undulating curved roads, government buildings with snap-on expansions, and a regional commodity system that lets you buy and sell excess resources.Īfter spending around a dozen hours each playing the game this weekend, Microsoft Editor Peter Bright (who considers himself a bit of a SimCity die-hard) and I (Gaming Editor Kyle Orland) were pretty disappointed with what we found. So it's fair to say that our expectations were high as we sat down with final release code for the new game, which launches in the US tomorrow. In fact, it's been a bit over ten years since SimCity 4 last showed us what it was like to control the fate of a vast metropolis ( Socities and Sim City Socialnotwithstanding). It's not every day you get a proper new title in the SimCity series. EA: SimCity server response time has improved 40-fold since launch.Unready for takeoff: The five worst PC game launches (that aren't SimCity).Fans, press uncover massive holes in SimCity’s AI, server connection.Hackers open up offline play, modding tools for SimCity.

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