IBM CityOne game

[yellowguy88 1]

I think this might be an early version of the CityOne game annouced by IBM today, the graphics look similar to the ones in the trailer for CityOne .. What do you think?%26hl=en%26fs=1%26rel=0%26ap=%2526fmt=18" wmode="opaque">

[CLR95 11]

I don't know, but if it is, I definitely want it! It looks awesome!

[yellowguy88 1]

Ya im not sure either.. it could be by the sounds of it when they say "its a serious game" .. also here's the trailer for CityOne which looks awesome but like cities xl .. looks are not everything..

[edman2012 33]

i'm sure its being called realistic in the sense that the economic portion of the game will be realistic, but it still wont be like simcity. this one seems like it may be more complicated, but we'll have to see. Besides, even if it does turn out to be quite good, its not like if a lot of people will even have the riduculously high requirements that require a kick-ass computer anyways...

[DCMetro34 576]

Nonetheless, a very interesting concept. Would be useful for a guy who likes city planning and strategy.....

[Mayor Dylan Thomas 2]

The last real city in the trailer is Toronto!

[un1 41]

Looks nice but only can be played on social networks sites? Thats a real downer for people who hate social networking sites (like me!). Why not host it on their own server? It isnt a huge investment, and isnt that hard really. (and yes I do know what I am talking about, I am a MMO developer)

[Damastius 5]

All looks like Google Earth... Nothing moves and you only see it from above.

[superhands 7]

I thought the graphic are yet to be shown as the trailer shows real life video footage?

[yellowguy88 1]

I think the graphics you see in the trailer are the graphics in the game.. if u look at the roads and highways at the start of the trailer they have moving cars that are clearly not real.. also the towers in the banking part look very like google earth 3d models.. so i think it might be using real world models from google earth?.. i think its a much more advanced version of the first game trailer above..

[Herdervriend 46]

I can't wait till the game is out. But the website makes me very confused till now.

[SimCity4IE 202]

This looks so awesome ^^

[Lemonchicken 3]

This looks really promising, can't wait for the demo to be released!

[Duvad 26]

looks like complete crap

[Slashback 136]

Originally posted by: Duvad

looks like complete crapquote>

Even though i wouldn't have used the same words as Duvad, i have to agree. It looks quite boring. I can do with SimCity 4.

- I would like to have more complex problems in SimCity 4 though.

[DCMetro34 576]

Originally posted by: ImVhOzzi

Originally posted by: Duvad

looks like complete crapquote>

Even though i wouldn't have used the same words as Duvad, i have to agree. It looks quite boring. I can do with SimCity 4.

- I would like to have more complex problems in SimCity 4 though.quote>

Yes....I like it, since it looks like you have to plan and strategize your cities; which I love doing!

Although if you don't like that type of game, I can definitely see where you're coming from.

-DC

[TekindusT 3,809]

I guess this is the most approximate thing to our desired "SC5" we'll see from now on, so we'll have to pay an special attention to CityOne...

[jongiks 0]

i'll keep watch on this. i might like it. (taking on a new challenge in city building is fun)

[masochist 111]

I don't think this is a SimCity-like urban simulator, really. It seems more like a city-management game, where the city is represented by a picture, and your job is to keep the economies (from the individual cities all the way up to the national economy) from crashing (so it'd be more like Nation States than SC4 or CXL).

[CommodoreTech 5]

To me, the first video made it look like an amateur mini-game you'd download with Google Earth. 'You can even see what cars the people are driving,'... sure, but they don't move, and it just looks so simple in comparison to the much more in-depth game that is SC4.

The trailer makes it look exciting, and IBM have made good stuff before, so they might crack the vice that SC4 was in.

To be honest, these two videos could be from completely different games, the way they portray it.

[Firion 0]

The idea sounds enticing, but I agree that from what I've seen it would be far too boring. I think I'd most definitely play SC4 over this.

[Raceman95 2]

the first video looks like those choose 1 of 2 options and see how the city comes out. and the second video doesn't show much of the game. and the 2 vids are diffrent games

[Ocram's Razr 964]

The second video uses real life footage that will not be in the game.

[Asheroo 53]

I'm not too sure about the whole deal with CityOne. As described, it's more of a city managing game than the city building SC4 was, so that first puts me off. I do like managing my cities, but love constructing and designing it more than managing it, then again, I guess managing it could be classified as constructing it as well (eg. Constructing a new highway system to help ease traffic problems).

I think the first video is more of a very early prototype as to the ultimate simple idea of the management in the game. So, it won't look even close to what it shows, but the managing would be similar. For example, as we see, there are floods because of heavy rain and sewage overflow (as he does say in the video, it was done in Photoshop). Looks a little promising, but for me, it's got to still have quite a lot of constructing and designing the whole city, and it's got to be 3D, anything less and I'll just reject and say "next".

[Walden95 8]

I'm looking forward to this new game. It isn't exactly a new SimCity but it appears to have enough micromanagement to keep gameplay intresting unlike the puzzle piece game Socities was. The two trailers depict somewhat different games as said before, but I doubt it would get as the trailer seems to tell. CityOne deffinatly won't beat what we alreaty have but it's worth looking into.

[Mountain Dew 0]

looks pretty interesting...

[ValNarm 0]

Originally posted by: Herdervriend

I can't wait till the game is out. But the website makes me very confused till now.quote>

I have to agree, and reading through the site it seems as though this is another reach out to 'real' games, where you literally have to cope with and control EVERYTHING at once. As I'm a control freak, I like this idea

~Val

[JayStimson 211]

I'm not sure it's supposed to be a game at all (at least not in the sense of SC4). It seems to be pitched more as an economics simulator to be sold to colleges and universities to augment lecture courses in business, finance, and economics. Guess we will have to wait and see.

[ValNarm 0]

If you take a look at their other piece of software, Innov8, I think you're right.

~Val

[tiago123 0]

Hello,

I found this game last week i tried to register an account at ibm but i always get a error when trying to finish the register form for the game.

Can you help me somehow so that i can play the game?