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Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows players to construct not only the cities they desire, but create their cultures, societal behaviors and environments as well. Build an artistic city, haunted town, green city, spiritual community or most any society you want! Using the accessible, innovative and versatile city-builder, players can create their own kind of city in SimCity Societies. [Electronic Arts]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 87
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Pelit (Finland)
The newest Sim City differs quite a lot from its predecessors. It concentrates more on the social atmosphere than being a realistic city simulator. Social energies is a fresh idea which works nicely although they’ve simplified the administrative side of the game maybe a little too much. SC: Societies is a nice way to waste time, but you’ll get bored with it at some point because the game starts to repeat itself. [Nov 2007]
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71
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PC PowerPlay
Marketed more towards newbies than the hardcore SimCity veteran, Tilted Mill has found an amiable balance between dumbing down some of the more difficult aspects of the classic game and creating an interesting new system of city management. [Jan 2008, p.59]
70
69
Games Master UK
It hangs together as a pretty building tool, but it's ultimately vacuous. [Jan 2007, p.68]
65
65
PC Gamer
Out of the box, the game falls disappointingly short of its promise--there's plenty of content here, but not nearly enough challenging ways for gamers to use it. [Feb 2008, p.80]
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PC Zone UK
There's an illusion of depth at play. [Jan 2008, p.74]
61
ActionTrip
Quite simply, the game is too easy. Other than balancing society energies and chasing a few meager trophies, you won't find much to entertain you here. The game is far from an "ultimate building block tool kit." SimCity has gone from a complex game to a toned down and largely underwhelming city builder with very little to hold your attention.
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PC Format
A spectacularly simplistic game, and bears no relation to the logistics of city building at all. [Jan 2008, p.73]
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Dragan Z. gave it a4: Brian gave it a4: Jops gave it a2: Jason M. gave it an8: Thomas N. gave it a5: Andrew W. gave it a0: Bill J. gave it a4: |
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