![]() ![]() You don’t have to limit yourself to just trying to ‘beat the game’. And therein lays a large part of the entertainment. Banks, zoos, amusement parks, airports and football stadiums are just a few of the extras you can discover. By creating a power source and using various commercial, residential and industrial zones from the start, you will open up lots of options to expand your utopia. You can alter the pace of time, even to a stop, but at the end of the year you will get a brief summary of how things are going and you can set your funds for the various powers at your disposal. The game always starts in January in the year 1900 and carries onward from there. While all new games of SimCity start with effectively a blank canvas with which to mold your own vision using the tools provided, there are infinite variations shaped by the choices you decide to make throughout play. No, it’s the New City option that lets you become Mayor of a fledgling community and begin life as a planner. There are a number of these scenarios but you will probably not find yourself drawn to these for very long. These are surprisingly challenging and offer a change of pace if you get tired of the main game mode. In Scenario mode you are tasked with saving a pre-built specific city from disaster be it Tokyo from a Godzilla-type monster who looks ominously like Bowser, Detroit and its high pollution etc. There are two types of game to choose from on the main menu: New City or Scenario. Thankfully these minor negatives are overshadowed by the level of playability and addictiveness. For the first half hour they don’t seem that bad but after a while they get repetitive and could become annoying. After a fairly pleasant title sequence, several samey tunes play throughout the menu screens and main game. The sound department is slightly underwhelming. It has to be said that the buildings are also nicely detailed throughout their development. Though this is somewhat expected, everything throughout the game appears bright and clear. The actual game is viewed from a bird’s eye view wherein the graphics are best described as rudimentary. Additionally, the general gameplay can be picked up in minutes and once you start, it can be easy to lose hours in the game if not paying attention.Īs one of the first wave titles available on the SNES, it should be noted that visually it doesn’t look overly impressive or even interesting to begin with. The button layouts and controls are very quick to gather. I cannot emphasize enough just how well the balanced sense of challenge and simple button navigation allows the player to dive right in from the onset. So how does the Super Nintendo version shape up? Well quite nicely as it happens. While it may not seem groundbreaking today, in the 80s and early 90s, this was pioneering. The most obvious thing people notice is that SimCity is a game that rejects the controlled and often directed experiences of many genres of the mainstream and instead embraces construction and creation as a defined play mechanic. It was to capture a large audience of video game fandom over the years and is still greatly admired to this day. It was the brainchild of American, Will Wright, whose finely crafted city simulator, designed in the mid-1980s was ported to a variety of formats, amongst them fortunately, the Super Nintendo in 1991. SimCity is the acorn of a video game archetype that spawned a legacy. Unlike FIFA, each Sim title felt singularly unique upon release up until the turn of the century. For every FIFA game ever made, there seems to of been a Sim game of some description. Never played SimCity? What about SimAnt, SimPark, SimHealth, SimEarth, SimLife … you get where I’m going here. Now, courtesy of an anonymous donor, please welcome our new video game, Sim-Sim.
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