"They're turning to gaming, not because we've been innovative, but with games like
SimCity and some of the historical games ...
The
SimCity games, indulgence of planners everywhere, don't "actually compute the reactions of each individual," writes Robert Axtell of the Brookings Institution.
The "
SimCity" series puts players in control of an urban grid with a growing population, requiring them to balance development, environmental issues and bottom-line economics against such facts of life as crime and natural disasters.
SimCity is the classic example of a god game where the human acts as mayor, and the AI controls individual units or citizens of the simulated city.
That's not because I don't love my friends or the people on-line are stupid or
SimCity isn't a great game--it's because I'm human, a social animal.
Maxis, the computer-program design firm that created the award-winning
SimCity, has put its considerable programming skills into producing SimEarth, a program/game that allows users not only to better understand but also to test the Gaia theory.
Released on January 14, 2003, '
SimCity 4' was the culmination of over two decades of city management know-how.
The three games that are going to be shut are The Sims Social,
SimCity Social and Pet Society.
SimCity has to be connected to the internet all the time, which is where it went wrong.
Recently I had the opportunity to test drive the new
SimCity for a few hours and least they tell me it was a few hours, I felt it was a mere few minutes.