Posted on: May 29, 2014
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No longer a Software Toy.
SC4 is a burly game for it's age. To my thoughts, it's a bit too much Sim in Sim City. Gone was the studio that had once produced the Software Toys of old, and now was in an overcomplicated simulation that's too smart and stupid at the same time. See the thing is, as the series went onward it became less about crafting a city creatively and more of a traffic management sim. The problem with SC4 is that traffic management is absolutely broken by default. Sims can't even navigate across the street in many cases. A term was oft thrown at the SimCity series: SoCalization; the phenomena of things being presented in a way that makes sense to Southern California and nowhere else. In SC4, this phenomena was at it's peak. Be this a strength or weakness is to personal determination. For my personal tastes, SC4's presentation is a weakness. The music especially didn't particularly strike out to me, and the building styles…it was the height of Real Is Brown. While this does reflect how cities look to many satellites, good viewing this doesn't make. And for those aspiring to a high tech city, I dearly hope patches can be found, as once again by default, they're broken and ask for abysmal numbers for employment. The regional interconnectivity certainly exists and can be exploited quite easily, but it never feels like they really matter all that much. Citizens in City X won't demand that Ordinance Y be enacted because City Z has it. Nor would you get a notice from City Z, demanding to hypothetically stop dumping toxic waste into the river because it's flowing into theirs. UDrive exists. It could have been a potentially fun way to tour the city, but given the circumstances of the traffic AI, your vehicle will end up a burning wreck, even if you do try to grandma your way though the city. All in all, fun can be found and had, but I just feel the previous titles and successor series have done this all better. Skylines, SC2K, 3K; I'd rather go play those than this.
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