Finally, SimCity V gets the review it deserves

[PlayerReview]

The original SimCity (1989), developed and published by Maxis (distribution by Brøderbund), was and still is my favorite game of all time (well, at least simulation genre). That said, Destructoid seems to be one of the first significantly respectable reviewing houses to agree with the often overlooked gamer/consumer demographic about SimCity V. It takes a lot of balls to give an EA game and it's huge IP a negative review, since I imagine it is less likely you would receive advance copies of their published titles as well as the possibility of income generating advertisements being pulled from your site. Although, with them publishing their review post-release, maybe this is already the case. Or, perhaps reviewing the copy that gamers are dealing with (especially in an always online DRM) is why they are respectable and thus their reviews? In any case, imo it is an appreciative overview of the game.

http://www.destructoid.com/review-simcity-248039.phtml

[Zorder]

From what I've seen so far from it (please note that I haven't played the game and I don't intend to), it's a really good looking and solid game that EA managed to pull off, of course it seems to have some failures. I've been following up TB's and Jesse's and Crendor's videos about it and I have to agree with them, people are mad at EA, due to the always online requirement in order to play the game, because it's a good game. If it was a bad game people wouldn't care about it.

I can understand the score (polygon gave it the same score, intialy they gave a 9.5 after the press review weekend, then 8 when it was bumpy at the start, then 4 when it wasn't fixed)

And the small cities thing, even though that was known. My big issue with that review and others is, they don't have "faith in EA" to fix it. Why? I have never got an EA that didn't work well. Especially not an EA/Maxis game, the Sims are polished to a huge extent. Need for Speed and FIFA are nearly always flawless releases. I don't get the EA can't fix it side, when have they not?

[canj]

This is just the times that we are in, for some reason, they focus so much on DRM that it breaks the game. I understand that PC titles lose money due to pirating - but this is just bad PR. They will lose more on that then the loss they would take from pirating.


Cray cray.

[PlayerReview]

SO glad I didn't buy this, for oh so many reasons...



I really enjoyed this comment on a review forum:

"It's the best business move in history: for the first time, EA has finally managed to let go of their costly game development activities, to completely focus on their core mission of robbing customers.

In the future, I expect them to be able to drop their marketing efforts too: the company will instead dispatch armed men that will directly rob people at gunpoint."

Also, another [older] Destructoid article: EA boss proudly refuses to publish single-player games

personally, i enjoyed it however, i was one of the fortunate ones that didn't really have any problem with the game. the most i ever got was two city wipe. some things to consider though concerning my outlook on the game are: it's my first simcity ever so i can't compare it to the older ones, as i said, i was lucky b.c i wasn't plagued by what was plaguing MOST players, i'm pretty patient so when the servers r down i just play other games or do schoolwork. i was told however, by veteran simcitytarians that they took a lot out of this simcity that they loved in the older ones like terraforming, bigger space, etc. Then there was the issue of many people getting their cities rolled back a LOT and wiped out that they were even scared to turn off their game, then the whole always online thing, not to mention many many server crashes.

personally i think anno 2070 is btr xD but that's just me