EA have killed the Sim City brand with this release and turned it into yet another "The Sims" expansion pack.
Sim City Societies is one of the worst games I have ever had the misfortune of installing on my PC. Suffice to say it was installed for approximately one hour then immediately deleted, never to be seen again.
It is not a city building game, it's more of a theme park construction kit, except instead of fun, the theme park makes you cry.
Everything about this game sucks, no wonder Maxis wanted nothing to do with it. The cheesy cash-in on the present trend for environmentalism, the horrible sims-style interface, the patronising tutorial, the fact that you CANT ZOOM OUT. I mean really, who is actually going to play a game like Sim City without being able to zoom out and admire your handiwork?
I hate everything about this game. The ridiculous graphics are sometimes well defined but other times the textures are smudged and blurry. The models range from quite cool looking to generic and blocky, there's no consistency. The sound is like a mish-mash of random sound effects someone found on an old sound effects CD. The gameplay is bizzare, makes no sense at all and is sometimes too simple and sometimes pointlessly complex. There are not enough words in the world to describe this vapid, brainless, childish, pathetic MESS of a game.
You can't build up a proper city, you can't watch your town evolve, it's way too easy to make money and waste it on ice cream shops, which are apparently only a little smaller than a multi-screen cinema by the way.
I would go on but playing this game has depressed me so much I feel like I need to go and have a bath to wash the stench of it from my body.
0/10 - Utterly terrible
