SimCity (2013)

[Garrett67]

Preordered too

Gonna fire up Beta in a few

The beta allows you to play one hour, then it starts over. That blows ass and I can't get it to start again now. Tells me I need to restart origin, which I do from the task bar but it still gives that message.

I suppose that could be a server issue.


Edit: This is more like a demo and not a beta. You only have one hour to play, starting with a blank slate and you're limited as to what you have access to. When it starts over, what you have done is gone.

Its a joke to be honest.

[CrimsonGhost56]

impressions?

....extra codes?

[Garrett67]

The only impression I can give is that its Sim City. It has been so long since I have played 4 that I really don't remember it that well but this looks like it will be the same fun.
Some things that I like is you can just simply drag roads and shape them , just like if you were drawing roads with a pencil and its so much easier to to setup zones.
All you have to do is drag alongside a road that that sets up whatever zoning you choose. Placing power , water and sewage is just as easy. Set them along a road and it will connect to
whatever the road connects to.

Like I said, you get one hour of playing time and that is starting from a blank page. So, every time you play, you are literally starting over.
So, really you don't get much time with the game before it wipes everything out. Which like I said, is more like a demo than anything.

I can post a few screenshots in awhile. I will have to upload them to Photobucket first.

Another thing I like is that you can put a filter on your camera. So, you can have Sepia, Soft, Vintage, etc. I personally liked the Soft setting.

As for graphics, I dont' think anybody will have trouble running the game if your computer is semi powerful.

Here is how I'm running it and I had no trouble. The only trouble I have is I'm using a trackpad and not a mouse, so that made moving around a bit of a challenge
Anyway,

2009 iMac 27", 2.66 Ghz i5 Quad Core
ATI 4850HD
12GB RAM

I am dual booted with bootcamp (Windows 7 64 bit ) but I elected to run in in OS X Mountain Lion running with Parallels. I thought doing that would slow me down but it didn't at all.
I was running full screen , as if it was running in Windows but I could also run it in an actual window too. I don't think you can do that on a PC.



Oh, I'm also running it on the highest settings with a screen resolution of 2560-by-1440 at 60fps. You can also select 30 FPS if you wish.

[Garrett67]

http://s1123.beta.photobucket.com/user/Axemaster5150/library/Sim%20City%205

These are probably hard to see but I tried to take pictures of various maps. I think the game looks a little better than the pictures but
the game isn't mind blowing visually. Could be that its basically a demo, or I hope. I would actually like it to be at a level graphically where
I will have trouble running it a little bit.

It seems to me that Sim City 4 looked better, but that could be relative to the time too. I haven't seen the game in many years.

[Chrispy]

Hope they have a free for all mode

Love just building things without any repercussions

[CrimsonGhost56]

ive pretty much given up hope on getting a code through email. they seem to be having a lot of problems with the server and with all the people who got a code through the amazon exploit i doubt they are going to giving out a lot more.

[KNUBB]

I got one from EA. Unsure if I am gonna use it

[CrimsonGhost56]

thanks knubb!

[Maynard]

why would anyone buy it from amazon now knowing that its nothing more than a 1 hr demo

[CrimsonGhost56]

why would anyone buy it from amazon now knowing that its nothing more than a 1 hr demo

all you had to do was pre-order the game, get the beta code then cancel the order.

[Garrett67]

why would anyone buy it from amazon now knowing that its nothing more than a 1 hr demo

Probably because you also get a $20 credit.

[Archbomber]

Got the beta. My main issue. It's only an hour long and after I tried to log in today to play it said unavailable. Also you can't save it

[Garrett67]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=-wxzWV1Sv4s#!

[Garrett67]

I was going to download me some Sim City 4 to get in the mood . I didn't realize that it came out in 2003.

[Leftwich]

I was going to download me some Sim City 4 to get in the mood . I didn't realize that it came out in 2003.

I was gonna do the same but i didn't feel like wasting 10 bucks. Maybe I'll find a torrent.