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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Inc. Part number: 15745
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- SimCity Societies allows players to create their own kinds of cities, shape their cultures, societal behaviors and environments. SimCity Societies builds an artistic city, an Orwellian city, futuristic city, green city, spiritual community or any society you want! With more accessible and innovative choices than before, SimCity Societies is the most versatile city building game.
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Gamespot editors' review
SimCity Societies (PC) price range: $3.99
- Reviewed by: Kevin VanOrd
- Reviewed on: 11/16/2007
- Released on: 11/15/2007
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This game is BAD
by tungertgu on December 31, 2007
Pros: There is no pros in this game
Cons: Will not run on any of my three computers
Summary: This game is horrible. Will not run on any of my computers. Tech support is horrendous. This game will not load onto my 2 desktops running Windows XP. So I ...
Summary: This game is horrible. Will not run on any of my computers. Tech support is horrendous. This game will not load onto my 2 desktops running Windows XP. So I decided to use it on my brand new entertainment laptop (running Vista) it loads and starts but then overwhelms the graphics card, this makes the screen blink and the game to run very slow. The card on this computer is 3 times more powerful than what the company says is needed to run this game. I downloaded some updates from EA’s website it worked for a half-hour until I stopped. When I went to start it again it would not work. I wrote e-mail to EA support and they never wrote me back. When I called EA I went through about 20 prompts until I reached some person I couldn’t understand and did nothing at all to solve the problem. For the 30 minutes I played the game it was great, but it is hardly worth the money for all the frustration it gave me.
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Funny game with a lot of opportunities
by bmn_1213 on January 3, 2009
Pros: Customizable
Many different goals
Fun
Good graphicsCons: bad performance on older PCs
waiting time
patchingSummary: This game is really fun to play for some days or weeks. You can discover different things and gain medals and trophies. Unfortunately, once the city runs good, there is ...
Summary: This game is really fun to play for some days or weeks. You can discover different things and gain medals and trophies. Unfortunately, once the city runs good, there is only one thing to do: waiting. And that is really boring.
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Wish I could give it a ZERO!
by ebedsworth on August 13, 2008
Pros: Can't get far enough into the system to find one
Cons: Crash, Boom, Crash, Boom
Summary: I installed SimCity Societies with the hope of hours of enjoyment. My system qualified to run the program based on the wrapper. The installation went smoothly, I rebooted and launched ...
Summary: I installed SimCity Societies with the hope of hours of enjoyment. My system qualified to run the program based on the wrapper. The installation went smoothly, I rebooted and launched the software - NADA. After an hour of searching Electronic Art's completely worthless technical support site for information on the specific error messages I was receiving, I tried some of the old basics - apply all patches, upgrade all drivers on my system that were slightly (1-3 months) out of date, etc. NADA. Then I sent in my DirectX diagnostics by the site and got some suggestions - ok, the program runs. I place the first item down in my city - CRASH. Search site for error message, no hits, back to e-mail. Turn off all other applications - heck, I disconnected my computer from the network and killed anti-virus and firewall - CRASH. Back to the DirectX diagnostics - mailed to EA again. Hopefully one day I'll find a way to get the game to play - but I doubt I'll buy an EA Game again.
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This game can be everything, but NOT a SimCity game.
by Diogo Cysne on June 27, 2008
Pros: It's good to create cute buildings.
Cons: There is no challenge! You are not a mayor anymore, but a simple architect!
Summary: I will consider the "SimCity" series only until the brilliant SimCity 4, but this "SC Societies" is nothing less than an advanced cities' drawing program. The incridible lack of creativity ...
Summary: I will consider the "SimCity" series only until the brilliant SimCity 4, but this "SC Societies" is nothing less than an advanced cities' drawing program. The incridible lack of creativity and challenge simply ruins the fun of governing a city, making you a simple architect!
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Good for what it is.
by xerostatic on February 28, 2008
Pros: This game is great for what it is meant to be.
Cons: Horrible to run, minimum specs given are a JOKE.
Summary: If you just want a fun game, this is it. If you don't want to worry about if everything has power and water, this is the game to get. ...
Summary: If you just want a fun game, this is it. If you don't want to worry about if everything has power and water, this is the game to get. I really liked the game, you just can't compare it to the SimCity games, which is probably why it's called SimSOCIETIES... You're not building a city, you're building a society. Very good graphics, very creative themes, i enjoyed it. I will agree with the other reviews about being hard to run. I have a pretty beefy machine w/2GB RAM, 512MB video card, and it was having troubles. It would run fine, but pretty hitchy and slow, which does make it frustrating. I'd definitely reommend having a BA machine if you want to run this. The min. specs...I'd really have to see a computer with those specs run this game, they're a joke.
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Worst game ever
by SSgt Hurley on February 15, 2008
Pros: Innovative idea
Cons: Twisted Mill
Summary: Will Wright abandoned this game series, the one that made him famous, for Spore and more sims sequels. I am very dissapointed, i bout it thinking that maybe a crappy ...
Summary: Will Wright abandoned this game series, the one that made him famous, for Spore and more sims sequels. I am very dissapointed, i bout it thinking that maybe a crappy simcity but a good "other" game. I was wrong, so very very wrong.
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ugh; ugh; ugh
by anthonyddddd on January 24, 2008
Pros: some pretty graphics
Cons: where should i begin?
Summary: I don't know why I always end up reading reviews for things after I already purchase them. I could definitely have saved myself from a few days of waiting ...
Summary: I don't know why I always end up reading reviews for things after I already purchase them. I could definitely have saved myself from a few days of waiting for the game to get good if I read these reviews first. I completely agree with all the other reviews. The game is both pointless and poorly written. It crashed my new top of the top of the line workstation many times. Luckily the 'blue screen' errors it crashed with were just as entertaining as the game itself so they never really frustrated me. No real need for me to get into any details of its problems and inadequacies. Just don't buy the game.
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Worst SimCity Ever
by drunkenrobot on January 8, 2008
Pros: Nice Graphics
Cons: Not Simcity
Summary: Don't waste your money on this garbage. They've ruined SimCity with this release. They've taken the ultimate micro-management exercise, and turned it into this fluffy lame "Sims" ...
Summary: Don't waste your money on this garbage. They've ruined SimCity with this release. They've taken the ultimate micro-management exercise, and turned it into this fluffy lame "Sims" style game. "Spirituality" points? Really? There was no religion in the real SimCity. It was about creating supply and demand, and balancing all of the many aspects of running a city. I had really high hopes for this game, but it doesn't live up to the SimCity name. I hope Maxis writes the next version, because these new developers don't know what SimCity is about.
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Just Bad!!
by fixitman124 on December 31, 2007
Pros: Graphics.... maybe?
Cons: Not at all the simcity game I've loved for years.
Summary: I’ve been a simcity follower ever since the original and loved every upgrade they have done until now. Simply, if you loved simcity for years do not “upgrade” to ...
Summary: I’ve been a simcity follower ever since the original and loved every upgrade they have done until now. Simply, if you loved simcity for years do not “upgrade” to this want-a-be. Stick to simcity 4 deluxe for excellent game play. I even tried forcing myself to play it for a couple days and every hour I played, the more I wanted to play simcity 4 again. Oh yea, and on top of the horrible game play, I have two 8800 GTS video cards and when the cities started to get big the graphics would lag so bad I could not play.
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Good for 1997, not for 2007
by desertnewhomes on November 27, 2007
Pros: I'l get back to you on this one
Cons: Slow game play. No real objective,
Summary: I have loved all the past SimCity games. I especially like Sim City 4 with the Rush Hour expansion pack, so I was all excited when I saw the new ...
Summary: I have loved all the past SimCity games. I especially like Sim City 4 with the Rush Hour expansion pack, so I was all excited when I saw the new Sim City Societies movies on EA's website. I pre-ordered and just got mine last week.
I am already bored with it. This was the biggest waste of $49.99.
The game does not look or fel like a Sim City game. The graphics are not as good as Sim City4. This game actually reminds me a little bit of the PC version of Monopoly which I was amused with for all of about 2 game plays.
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GARBAGE.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Inc.
- Part number: 15745
- Description: SimCity Societies allows players to create their own kinds of cities, shape their cultures, societal behaviors and environments. SimCity Societies builds an artistic city, an Orwellian city, futuristic city, green city, spiritual community or any society you want! With more accessible and innovative choices than before, SimCity Societies is the most versatile city building game.
Product Basic Spec
- Platform PC
- ESRB rating Everyone 10 and older - Crude Humor,Alcohol and Tobacco Reference,Mild Violence
- Genre Strategy
- Elements Miscellaneous - virtual life
- Number of players 1 Player
- DirectX version v9.0c
- Operating system Windows XP/Vista
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- Developer Tilted Mill
- ESRB Everyone 10 and older
- ESRB descriptors Crude Humor,Alcohol and Tobacco Reference,Mild Violence
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