From what I'm seeing, the "neighbor dependency" is only as much as you let it be. Nothing is stopping you from being your own neighbor - by design. IE: neighboring lots can be claimed by yourself, and you can make suburbs of your own city.
Yeah pretty much. The major difference from Simcity 4 from what I can see is that your neighboring cities borders no longer run up directly to your own city. So gone is the day of making one super large city that covers all the land area on the region map. They're more spread out now:
sweet, I got a beta key...when does it go live?
oh, look at the perfect ethnic and gender diversity and absolute hipness of these mayors! This game is Utopia!
I'm pretty sure that screenshot of farms is from one of the Cities XL games. All the others look great though.
Yeah pretty much. The major difference from Simcity 4 from what I can see is that your neighboring cities borders no longer run up directly to your own city. So gone is the day of making one super large city that covers all the land area on the region map. They're more spread out now:
Don't worry, I'm sure SimCity 6 will include PvP. (Or is it CvC?) Where your sprawling city can start "incorporating" neighboring neighborhoods.
Tell me that wouldn't be cool?
If you pre-order SC5, you get the Heroes vs. Villains add-on. It would be awesome if your villains could take over another city
Given EA's propensity for expansion packs with Sim games, I totally look forward to the "Gang Warfare Expansion Pack" where bloody battles for 'turf control' occur between neighborhoods.
Let's not forget the ever popular "Mob Boss Pack" where you take on your rival mob bosses to try to gain control over rival territory and businesses.
Dear god... I should be a video game producer.
Friday morning at 9 Pacific, I think. Not sure if it will be available to download before that.
I'm looking forward to trying it out, I hope that the level of detail and simulation offsets the smaller maps and other stuff they took out. Based on the videos and discussions I've seen it looks cautiously promising.
Didn't i read that you only get to play the beta for an hour and then the key expires?
That actually sounds fun. I would buy that.
earlier, someone mentioned you could only play your city for an hour. then, you can make another city and play that for an hour.
Cool! Then can I also interest you in the "Yakuza Expansion Pack", complete with Chinatown themed buildings?
And let's not forget the "Muggers and Burglars Pack", you know, to enhance the generic crime opportunities in your town.
And finally the "Columbian Drug Lord Expansion Pack", where rival drug kingpins fight to expand their empires against the up-and-coming redneck homebrew meth labs.
(Too much?)
Cool! Then can I also interest you in the "Yakuza Expansion Pack", complete with Chinatown themed buildings?
And let's not forget the "Muggers and Burglars Pack", you know, to enhance the generic crime opportunities in your town.
And finally the "Columbian Drug Lord Expansion Pack", where rival drug kingpins fight to expand their empires against the up-and-coming redneck homebrew meth labs.
(Too much?)