I am OK with online-only mode, as long as I can check people who build next time me, as long as they work WITH me, and not try to destroy my city somehow.
Wow that looks to be shaping up quite nicely. It appears the game tracks every resident of the city by giving them a name etc. That's going to be quite impressive in a huge metropolis.
If I need to upgrade my rig by the time this one comes out, I will gladly do it.
Up until now, most of the gameplay we’ve seen from SimCity has centred on either city-play, or the multiplayer features on offer regionally. In this demo though, Maxis finally showed three different cities in a region being controlled by one player. To support solo play, the team has created an interface that makes managing multiple cities a hell of a lot smoother than we’ve seen in previous games. Most notable is the region view map which, aside from being easy to navigate, offers a real-time bird’s eye view of all your cities going about their business. Getting into the action is nice and swift, too; one-click zooms you into a city so you can fulfil your mayoral duties, without a single loading screen to be found, meaning play in each region feels that much more immediate.
IGN has a new article talking about the regions. Of particular importance is how this affects the single-player experience (something I've been focusing on and have been saying won't affect us after their AMA information:
Singleplayer is there
The downside? Tile sizes are ridiculously small, and from what I've seen, looked to be spaced out (so no simulation of an actual city by building four tiles next to each other). At this price point, and without larger city sizes, I'm not going to be buying this.
Beta will be free to play next weekend. Details here:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/18/3890218/simcity-beta-happening-next-weekend
SimCity is all about building huge megapolis! How can they not know that?
Yeah, this is basically SimTown, 2k x 2k is freaking small. This is probably my biggest issue with the game besides the always online and not being able to restore to other save points. I'm sure anyone who has played Simcity has doing random alien invasions and other stuff on their cities they spent a lot of time building to just mess around and then reload it back before hell broke loose.
The beta allows you to play for 1 hour LOL
wait. no ability to save? ugh nothing i hated more then getting a great city and a fucking alien, tornado, fire destroyed the city.
hopefully they make it bigger though. it looks great but yeah that is small.
lol ok so beta is usless.
You get an hour of play in the city, and then you can restart for another hour.
It sounds like they want to see how many cities the servers can handle.