SimCity Societies
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of SimCity Societies
Customer Review: Fun for the first 30 minutes
Summary: 3 Stars
The game is fun and entertaining until it starts to crash without letting the player to fully unlock all the medals and trophies. After 30-40 minutes it starts to crash constantly. There is no fun in always having to start over ever so often.Customer Review: Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
It's a pretty good game. Some things are better than the older simcity games - like not having such a hard time growing the city, not needing the things like water and powerlines, no building maintenance costs and being able to set it up with unlimited money and all buildings unlocked. However, it would have been nice to have these features with everything else from the old game. Having to place each individual building makes it extremely difficult to have anything approaching the size of an actual "city." And the values thing you need to keep track of is at least as restricting as the old version - you end up having to place decorations in very unusual places to do what you want. Hopefully the next version of SimCity goes back to placing zones but keeps the other things that kept you from doing what you want - or at least gives you the option to.Customer Review: Easy, fun game to feel omnipotence for a while.
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this game a few months ago despite the bad reviews and I am glad I did not listen. This is a fun, entertaining, easy game when you just have 15 or 20 minutes to just enjoy a fun activity. All the bugs have been fixed or can be if you go to the simcity societies website and download the latest game update (#4 now). This update even has new add ons, like alien invasion, creature invasion etc.Customer Review: Fun game, but too many crashes
Summary: 3 Stars
Having been a SimCity player since the beginning, I enjoyed playing the game, and don't miss some of the chores of SimCity, such as routing your water pipes or subway tubes. I enjoy the new concepts with venues and other buildings developing authority, spirituality, etc. The graphics look good. I wish I could find my rogue sims more easily, and determine why they are unhappy.
My biggest complaint though, is not the game design, it's the system crashes. I can only play for about 30-40 minutes at a time before the screen freezes, I need to hit ctrl-alt-del and end the game and reboot it. I have 3 GB of memory and an NVIDIA 8500 graphics card, so there should not be a problem like this, unless there is some kind of a memory leak or graphics issue in the game itself. I don't have problems like this with any other games or other programs. A good patch might take care of this, but I have the latest.
Customer Review: Buggy
Summary: 1 Stars
Was so looking forward to this game. I have a good computer that has never had trouble running games before. This game is full of bugs, three updates have not helped.
It was working. I did enjoy it. Then after reinstalling would refuse to work.
Don't buy it.