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SimCity Societies | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Seller: RossLLC
Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 6727
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Genre: Simulation Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: 15745
UPC: 014633157451
EAN: 0014633157451
ASIN: B000U88UVS
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Innovative, modular approach to city-building - choose from more than 350 unique buildings which can be combined, connected and re-arranged in almost limitless combinations. | | • | Make an artistic city, an industrial one, a police state, or anything you want. | | • | A new system in SimCity Societies picks up on cultural cues and adjusts lighting, music and the appearance of your city on-the-fly! | | • | As your city evolves, you'll be able to unlock new buildings to help advance your society. | | • | System Requirements: DVD drive. |
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Product Description
SimCity Societies PC DVD
Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows you to create your own kinds of cities and shape their cultures and environments. Make your cities green or polluted, contemporary or futuristic, rural or urban. Create an artistic society or a police state, an industrial city or a spiritual community—or any society you want! 
Iconic, open-ended gameplay. | 
Mix any culture or time in creating your city. View larger. | 
Be as realistic as you want. View larger. | The most versatile city-building game.
Combine and connect elements of your city like never before with the ultimate building block tool kit. This innovative, modular approach to city-building makes SimCity Societies accessible to players of all levels, while still providing tremendous new possibilities to veteran players of the SimCity™ series. Shape your city through its values and priorities.
More than just a city-building simulator, SimCity Societies puts you in the new role of social engineer. Mix and match six "social energies"—productivity, prosperity, creativity, spirituality, authority, and knowledge—to determine the core attributes that will be reflected in the infrastructure of your city as well as in its people. After you plant these seeds you'll witness the evolution of your city as everything from its physical appearance to the sounds heard on its streets adapt to reflect these values. Build unique homes, workplaces, leisure-time venues, and parks.
Choose from more than 500 unique objects which can be combined and connected in almost limitless combinations. Take inspiration from a variety of architectural styles, ranging from the realistic to the fanciful, rural to urban, industrial to futuristic. And with only a fraction of the available buildings and associated object types unlocked at the game's beginning the possible combinations will only grow as you delve deeper into the game and advance your society. Share your creations with your friends online.
The most customizable SimCity™ ever created, SimCity Societies not only allows you to modify almost everything in the game, from the buildings, decorations, citizens and rule sets, it also allows you share these with friends online.
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 Boring, not a Sequel to SimCity July 21, 2010
Dr. El Presidente (Stillwater, OK)
I am rather disapointed in this game. I bought it expecting a sequel to SimCity 4, but got only diapointement. I can get 30 minutes to an hour of play per city before I'm bored with it and have to start a new one.
 New version + patch = works for us! June 27, 2010
Lauren
First of all, Amazon didn't give (or I didn't see) video card requirements, and I thought this was an older game, better for our older computers (not getting a new one just yet). What we got was newer, instead of for 98/2000/XP, it's for XP SP2 or Vista. (I hope we can play this if we get Win 7.) So the thing is the video/graphic card requirement was too much for one of our computers (what's recommended is 9.0/10 compatible or there would be problems or there might just be an error preventing play - of course this is a cheap investment to risk for trying!). (My Dell doesn't even have the right brand name of the 2 recommended.) Also note, it's 2.1 GB in size! (And requires about 6 GB in free space, from what I can remember during install.)
Just thank goodness it works on one!
I haven't had the game crash, and I've been playing it for a few days, which is long enough for me to tell. (I didn't expect much but had hope.)
The game is fun. I wanted this because a certain social networking game company was greedy so to truly enjoy their city game, which I initially loved, costs big money... and here is a better game for CHUMP CHANGE! Definitely worth this price and more. If you know what other game I mean and play it, I recommend Societies of the whole SimCity franchise.
I have a few, very few, complaints with how SimCity or Societies in particular is made. Two examples: 1; it's hard to tell what some buildings are unless I open their "cards" (NO english signs, which is classic Sim). 2; I'd probably enjoy it more on occasion if the buildings took time to build and trees would grow, like it happens with at least SimCity Creator for Wii SimCity Creator.
I want that game next, haha. (That and probably the "Destinations" bonus pack. I believe on Amazon it's bundled in the "Box" package.) The SimCity Box
As for when I will play it on our Wii, it will be nice to have the speed from not using a computer, and other reasons, like wanting to see the experience of a growing city, in the sense from above.
That said, I really like the philosophy with Societies, and I just mostly have few minor things that would go on a wishlist, but nothing's perfect anyway. Aside from that, I blame an old computer with this monster program for any annoyances.
My rating was almost 5 stars!
P.S. I think it's a great game for women and kids, but the jury is out around here about men.
 This game deleted 5gig of my other games! April 13, 2010
S Bear Devitt (Milwaukee, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game today in a retail store because I didn't want to wait on shipping. The install seemed OK. I spent over an hour downloading its updates. It was very balky during the update and at the end asked for the original software to be reinstalled. OK. Things were looking up. It launched and I began the tutorial. The game seemed just as overly detailed, contradictory, and confusing as all the reviews had said. I exited for a snack break and that's when I noticed that 10 of my desktop icons now had that empty generic shortcut link. To shorten this tale of woe, the short cuts for the Sims, all my Half-life episodes, clanceys Rainbow Vegas, that quirky Space Siege, Doom 3 were all broken. Worse than that -- all the files were gone, the applications and the data. All gone. I have owned some real crapware since I started gaming in '91. BUT nothing compares to a violation like this since the direct x wars years back. This is a lousy game to begin with, but its blatantly distructive nature is unreal. I had seen complaints that its anti-bootleg software was invasive, but I NEVER would have expected the deletion of close to 5 gigs of material off both of my drives. Leave this game alone, its really NOT worth the pain.
No complaints. February 16, 2010
Erica R. Atts (TX, USA)
It got here super fast and was in perfect condition. The game is fun and had no issues with the seller.
Very good gameplay, but nonetheless very patchy and flawed January 4, 2010
Billy Eaton (Australia)
The gameplay itself was very good, but this game is so full of glitches and bugs it's not funny. I have a relatively new computer with 2GB of RAM, a 256 MB Video Card and a 2 GHz processor, and the game still freezes up at random and is very slow.
I actually very much liked the changes made from previous versions. It was different but I found it gave me much more control over my city than previous versions, and a far greater ability to scape my city to my liking.
Unfortunately, the gameplay itself is outweighed by the many glitches it has. I had incredible trouble installing it, and when I began playing the game it froze after 15 minutes, requiring me to eject the disc and reboot my Computer.
Overall, I would say this game is not worth the money unless you are incredibly patient and cool-headed. It's a real pity this game was so well designed and thought out, but so full of bugs and flaws at the same time.
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