New Screenshots

[Pandemic 32]

Found some new screenshots,

Looks pretty good.

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

Yeah, they look incredible, paticulary the first one. Almost looks like San. Francisco in my opinion.

[simlink 1,098]

I definitely like the improved trees... those look snazzy.

[MaxisGuillaume 289]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

[Bipin 3,402]

I know I'd love to see anything that has to do with road/highway networks!

[Pandemic 32]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

Is it possible to take a Google-earth style screenshot of a city that's been completed to get an idea of how big our cities can get.

Thanks.

[CaptCity 4,753]

Just a quick note... Merged several "New Screenshot" topics here to keep things more organized - and thought it might be fun to create a kind of "historical perspective" as things progress. There might be a little post jumbling early in the topic, but the later things should be okay. Thanks.

[Hamish 1,369]

Wow, these screenshots are looking really good. The lots look really nicely detailed.

Love the reflection of the moon on the water.

I'd like to see a day in the life of a sim. What simcity looks like from the sims commute from their home, their lunch break, and the commute back from the inner city.

But to be honest, with screenshot as good as those, anything would be fantastic at the moment

[cirugo 1,889]

Found some new screenshots,

Looks pretty good.

Look carefully at that third screenshot...you can see where the wall of skyscrapers ends at the extent of the buildable area and the sea of empty green space begins. Ugh.

[MaxisGuillaume 289]

I know I'd love to see anything that has to do with road/highway networks!

Ha ha, I had a feeling you'd be asking that. I'll try to capture a viaduct with networks crossing it, how about that?

[Vampirovibrio 43]

I was wondering if one can built a beach on the coastline like in Simcity 4. It would be a shame if one cannot build beaches especially with such beautiful coastlines in this Simcity. Also, I believe I saw yellow taxis in the new strategy video. Are there taxis stands as well?

[andreikait 3]

I know I'd love to see anything that has to do with road/highway networks!

Ha ha, I had a feeling you'd be asking that. I'll try to capture a viaduct with networks crossing it, how about that?

Yes! We can not wait.

[Skyrunner27 23]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

How about something involving the two transit options that have not had spotlighting. I am referring to the ferry and in city airports.

[Bipin 3,402]

I know I'd love to see anything that has to do with road/highway networks!

Ha ha, I had a feeling you'd be asking that. I'll try to capture a viaduct with networks crossing it, how about that?

Sounds good to me!

[Gridlock 9]

A new sim city game by maxis

kewwwl !

[cyruskafaiwu 29]

How about a new great works other than an airport

[JaceTwice 115]

How about a new great works other than an airport

They announced the Space launch center great work recently. Any chance we can see that?

[Evillions 552]

The first image would have been so awesome if the green void is replaced with an actual city or an extension of the represented city. This is making me want to buy this, but its the damn green void.

[snick25 384]

The graphics are getting better--at least they aren't as cartoony as before. But what of the maps?

I really do want to like this game, as there are some features I do admire. But the map sizes are just too darn small. In just about every screenshot, excluding the ones show closer to the ground, you can see the no-man's land in the distance. A constant reminder of just one of the several limits this game puts on the player.

[Pandemic 32]

Found some new screenshots,

Looks pretty good.

Look carefully at that third screenshot...you can see where the wall of skyscrapers ends at the extent of the buildable area and the sea of empty green space begins. Ugh.

Agreed, looks pretty bad.. And it looks so small!

[spa 968]

@Pandemic: What's so frustrating is that what's inside the bubble looks so great! I'm going to have to let it go because it doesn't seem to be something that's going to change, but I'm really aghast at the space left between city tiles. It feels like a step backwards.

[Ocram's Razr 963]

It looks a little too bright, a little too flat (textured, as in no normal maps or bump maps), and a little unrealistic (random grass field, oddly proportioned assets, small build-able city size).

--Ocram

[barnacleboy 13]

I would like to see some train screenshots. Are there any huge train stations in the game like NY central or London's St Pancras?

[semo 14]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

I'd love to see some shots of the UI. For example, changing tax rates (once all of the proper city infrastructure buildings are in place).

[MaxisGuillaume 289]

I would like to see some train screenshots. Are there any huge train stations in the game like NY central or London's St Pancras?

The default train station looks a lot like the Amtrak one in Emeryville, just a block away from our office.

[StoNe220022 159]

For all those complaining about the empty dead grass space space between cities being unrealistic. Remember Simcity 4 cities floated in the middle of space. Pollution and crime did not spread each city even though they were contiguous.

True, but when playing a city in SimCity, it was like a part of the world was taken out and given to you for development. Things happening outside that part of the world was not important. Whatever existed beyond the edge of the map was for you to imagine.

You get it! It's the difference between a first person shooter gamer and a simulation gamer; the power of imagination

I never cared to have the simulation as deep as SimCity2013 is taking it, I myself had ideas in SC4 on what sim worked where, and what it'd by like living within my creation.

Looking at these pictures you are constantly reminded of how small the maps are with the unatural fields of grass that flow beyond the city limits.

[cirugo 1,889]

What I find most frustrating about these screenshots is that those who have prepared them clearly understand the issue, but are ignoring it in replies to fans.

In the first screenshot, they've lined up completely separate cities in the view and used water between them to explain the distance, suggesting the transition to suburbs that we would like to be able to build.

In the second screenshot, the CBD ends convincingly at the edge of a major body of water.

Worst of all, in the third screenshot the entire city appears to have been designed for this particular screenshot. Can you imagine viewing that city from the opposite side?

Their efforts to create realistic, visually appealing screenshots expose their willful silence on how these issues will look to the player.

Do you want to know what they'll look like without careful camera angle? Go to the official site www.simcity.com Wait for the multiplayer part to come on the screen. That's an actual in-game screenshot of a region...

Skyscraper islands in a sea of green.

[jigsaw 227]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

1. some regional shots in detail and menus in region shots

2. how about some complex cities that are using different forms of architecture... or is it all 'american' cities?

3. railway stations

[Rokugatsu 126]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

1. Some pictures from the region

2. Some pictures of medium sized cities, but not the casino one...Maybe industrail? But not just the industrial part, also residential.

[Wiimeiser 444]

I'm hoping to be able to post a picture or two this coming week as well, based on how much time I have to play the game. Any request for what you'd like to see?

Highways, maybe more of the Roads menu as well.