And then, they went extinct because they where unable to adapt.
Also, gotta say I prefer the middle artstyles over the full 3d one.
The graphics from Simcity 4 (even Simcity 3000) hold up very well today.
I think it's the mixture of a high quality creative direction and immense detail.
Yeah. The one thing I miss is being able to build more walkable, less car-based cities. It's doable in moded Cities: Skylines, but that tends to go unstable on me. Kinda doable in Vanilla C:S2, but that's already unstable before you mod it.
If you want walkable cities, try Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It’s janky and complex as hell, but citizens don’t even have cars by default (unless you explicitly build parking lots and buy cars for them), and they rely entirely on walking and public transit to get around. Buildings can receive emergency services via pedestrian paths too (unless they’re something like a grocery store that has parking spaces)
Nice, I'll probably try that.
C:S2 does city services via walking paths too, and even though it's mostly car based, you can get pretty high public transport adoption rates with proper planing. It's even relatively easy to fund free public transport (because the economy is too easy in general, but still). It's just frustrating that it's still full of tech issues this long after launch.
Anyways, I'll stop ranting, and thanks for the reccomendation.
What a huge jump from the first to second tile (is that Sim City 2000?)…
Yes, that’s simcity 2000. It also looks the best of all of these.
The second tile is ~~indeed SC 2000.~~ more likely 3000 (with the third tile being 4?).
Only because I wanted to see 2000, I looked it up and the second tile seems to be it…
I mean, your screenshot looks a bit different graphically, and the second tile in the pic from OP looks different in e.g. the roads. Also, the second tile in OP looks a how I remember 3000 to look. For further reference, please check this section of an LGR video on 3000.
Yeah, that's Simcity 2000. On some level, both Simcity 3000 and Simcity 4 were an evolution of Simcity 2000.
My hot take was that once it stopped being online-only, SimCity 2012 was actually quite an ok game. It got abandoned and has a bit of a balance problem (you can never ever ever build enough housing), and I'm not saying the game is perfect but it's quite serviceable and it looks very good, especially with the DLC. Personally I enjoyed it a lot, despite it's issues.
It was the last game I pre-ordered and I think the last EA game I bought (outside of some retro titles).
I don't really get hyped for games, Simcity 2012 was an exception. And then I played and it was clear they were deceptive in their marketing and management had no clue what they were dealing with.
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