Even without access to the full global servers, which EA hasn't turned on yet, we were excited to try promised new features like undulating curved roads, government buildings with snap-on expansions, and a regional commodity system that lets you buy and sell excess resources.Īfter spending around a dozen hours each playing the game this weekend, Microsoft Editor Peter Bright (who considers himself a bit of a SimCity die-hard) and I (Gaming Editor Kyle Orland) were pretty disappointed with what we found. So it's fair to say that our expectations were high as we sat down with final release code for the new game, which launches in the US tomorrow. In fact, it's been a bit over ten years since SimCity 4 last showed us what it was like to control the fate of a vast metropolis ( Socities and Sim City Socialnotwithstanding). It's not every day you get a proper new title in the SimCity series.

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