According to the press release from EA, Simcity will be releasing February 2013 on the PC.
Powered by the GlassBox simulation engine, SimCity is taking back its crown as the king of city-building games. Players will have the power to build the city of their dreams, connect with their friends and face real-world challenges together as SimCity comes to retail and Origin in February 2013.
- Platform: PC
- Ship Date: February 2013
- ESRB Rating: “RP” for Rating Pending
There are three different screenshots featuring an Industrial city, a University city, and firefighters trying to save a burning a building. Each of the three screenshots utilizes a photo manipulation technique known as tilt shifting. The buildings are a bit cartoony, but the art style looks like a cross between Sims 3 and the cancelled game Simsville.
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From these three screenhots, users have described the art style as “cartoony” and “FisherPrice” inspired. A few are still skeptical and waiting for more screenshots until judgement.
What really embarrasses me is that Societies look. And we know what happenned with Societies. It’s a work in progress, I hope they sort what’s wrong with it. From my perspective the problem must be those larger limitless buildings. Factories and big buildings featured in the first image should have walls.
I hope they implement a system I wonder since SC4, buildings getting their zones enclosed by walls once you surround the buidings by roads. So you could build your city your own way, you could make every building unique.