You may choose what sort of generic region you would like to play in, and then, where on that pleasingly blank map space to "plop" your city. At the outset, you are given a tantalizingly slim number of options. And if that sounds like an oxymoron, then welcome to the science of engineering addiction. SimCity is an exercise in providing unlimited options through limiting choice. It's "one more turn" taken to the most obsessive extreme. What Maxis and EA have learned over the course of a long decade of experimentation with The Sims and social gaming is exactly how (and why) to push a gamer's buttons and make them click. If it charged by the hour, you'd sell a kidney. In a nutshell, it is the heart and mind of the SimCity games of days gone by, but more beautiful, ready to seduce away your hours until you are a rotted husk of the person you used to be. And it is, at the same time, radically new. SimCity is more-or-less the same game it has always been. Once I saw under the hood of all that SimCity allows you to do, it was hard to restrain the urge to become a mad dictator Even the soundtrack, which can soothe or encourage, feels painstakingly crafted to tune your emotions with what's happening on screen. So when I received the latest, I thought that I could ride that lightning and "quit any time." I was wrong.įrom the pleasing sounds of every various button press, to the satisfying way various parts of your city connect, then come to life (then die and come back from the dead), every element of this game has been perfectly and patiently engineered to engender an endorphin rush of accomplishment. I've perfectly zoned my little towns, entered cheat codes, then left them to bake over night and returned, triumphant, to a pile of "simoleons," ready to reap the whirlwind. I've built (and destroyed) countless sim cities. I'm old enough to have played and remember all of the various iterations of this franchise. And in my case, it was enormously successful at both.
You may play a hundred hours of this game without noticing, but behind the curtain, SimCity is working furiously to hook you - and keep you hooked. If addiction is a freight train, then SimCity is the roaring locomotive pulling you into the night.
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