SimCity™: Complete Edition for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Nicky6572

  The best Sim City game yet!

  I don’t know why so many people don’t like this game or why so many people are having problems with it crashing. I have owned this game for a while now and it never crashed once. Maybe their computer is too old or the operating system is too old. I have played all Sim City games and the first one was kinda fun but was horrible to todays standards and the graphics were extremely blocky. Sim City 2000 was a huge improvement and I played that game so much when I was growing up. I will be honest I never played Sim city 3000 but, watched a friend play it and he did not enjoy it at all. He prefered Sim City 2000. When I bought Sim City 4 I thought that game was amazing! the graphics were much better and the game play was much better and for a while I played it just about every day. Now Sim City Complete Eddition is by far the best, even though my version of Sim City 4 won’t work on my new computer and I kinda miss it. It is fairly easy to play but, can get a little complicated at times. My favororite part is building the megatowers. Building the VU Tower and taking normal sims and converting them into criminals is fun. Watching the VU Mobile go by and creating chaos is kinda fun too. I hope this review is helpful for most people

  
  
• By Guybrush T.

  Beautiful game but low on replayability

  After having played this game for a few months, I have to say it’s not that replayable. There are only a few maps and many of the locations are the same, just a big piece of flat land. The most interesting locations are in the Granite Lake maps, but unfortunately it’s the only one with so many interesting locations. Once you figure out how to solve the traffic issue, the game gets pretty boring. — I have been playing SimCity since its very first version. This is by far the most beautiful SimCity ever released, both in terms of graphics and music. I understand that it’s more “simplified” and that’s fine as it was starting to get too complicated for me. My only gripe is that I don’t understand why the maximum resolution is so low. It doesn’t look as great as it could on my 27” Windows. If you want a complex game where you micro-manage everything, this is not for you. But if you want a streamlined, beauitful game, definitely get it. — Update: Since the update, I have noticed more and more bugs. I am not sure if they already exist in the previous version or not but I noticed them recently. I hope they get fixed soon so the game is more playable.

  
  
• By Trevor Hawkes

  Not worth a purchase

  I was really excited for this game, and admittedly visually it looks great, but there’s two major problems with the game. The building area for your cities is really small IMO. You’re going to struggle to fit everything into some of these areas in order to get a self sufficient city. Now this version of SimCity has a regional aspect to it where you can build other cities and they specialize in certain things so theoretically that should solve the playing area dilemna. Except it doesn’t. This version of SimCity was stupidely designed around online play and this is where the second problem arises. Interacting with other cities and specializations just doesn’t work in the offline version because while you are working in your city nothing is happening in the other cities which all react to each other. I’ll spend an hour in one city making it perfect, then head over to my first city only to find everyone left and all the residential is vacant because no one was adding services while the other city became desireable.

  
  
• By TertlTank

  Hot Glitchy Garbage

  There are websites full of images and examples of bugs that EA has refused the fix. These examples are from FIVE YEARS AGO, and they still persist. The game is wonderful until you get anywhere near a population of 35,000 people, then the bugs become endless and cripple game play. I even decided to study up on all of the workarounds the player community developed to beat the bugs EA won’t fix, and the game does get interesting trying to work out new solutions, but then some other crippling bug or glitch arives and makes your entire city unplayable. - Buildings destroy themselves, leaving roads you can’t delete, and can’t do anything with. They just sit there, in the middle of the ground, FOREVER. - Your students disappear, or suddenly stop going to school for no reason. The population gets dumb, and starts moving out. - About two great works projects can never be completed on some of the maps without outside fixes. - Some of the great works … DON’T WORK plain and simple. - Megatower population is challenging, but they become upset for no clear reason and when they do give a reason it doesn’t match up with the data the game provides (e.g. they move out because “they need work” but there are thousands of jobs available INSIDE OF THE MEGATOWER.) I wouldn’t buy this game until the developer actively FIXES many of the glitches that’ve existed since 2013 and 2014.

  
  

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