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[bannie]

One caveat: Maxis did not make this game


That being said, this is an odd little game. It does away with the classic simcity style of game play of laying zones and waiting for them to develope. Instead it adds more of a simtown feeling of placing each individual building as you see fit, in a balancing act of sims, jobs to fill and venues for the sims to blow off steam


It gives you several building types to choose from, from small town, industrial, cyberpunk and big brother authoritarian (among others) and each building has to fill requirements to function, like production, wealth, spiritual, or education to name a few, although buildings also produce said requirements

The game is largely sand box, as are most of the Sim titles, though there are goals to achieve and buildings to unlock which give it some kind of direction

My two quams are this: the frame rate and the town's inevitable layout

The framerate fluxes and drops considerably and my machine, while aging, is well above the recommended specs. The game functions in a 3-D engine and there is just too much for it to think about at one time

Secondly, without the zoning of the last game, the towns just end up...odd looking. This could probably be averted with better planning on my part, but I see it becoming an odd issue


The game only cost me $19.99 so if you like this style of gameplay, by all means try it out

[ExarKun]

You acuatally like the game? I heard very few good things about it. If your a person who always enjoyed those games like The Sims, Sim City, Roller Coaster Tycoon and so forth? Cause I have an enjoy all of those games.

[bannie]

ExarKun wrote: I heard very few good things about it.


So have I but frankly, its not that bad, other than being a serious resource hog and fairly formulaic once you figure it out

And yes, I do like those stlye of games, which is why I bought Tropico in the first place