{"id":2614,"date":"2012-03-09T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2012-03-13T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:15:43","slug":"maxis-has-striked-again-new-simcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=2614","title":{"rendered":"Maxis has striked again: New SimCity!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On the GDC 2012 EA and Maxis have shown a new version of SimCity. Simcity 4
\nis the newest version of the game since 2004, offering a sort-of-isometric view
\nand real 3D objects ingame. The game depth was really high but not higher than
\nin Simcity 3000 (published in 1998). I’m a big fan, who has played the original.<\/p>\n

The original game was released in 1989, the very first Simcity for PC, and playable on a 286 at 8MHz on a monochrome Hercules monitor. The game fits on a floppy disk with 720KB. The Simcity 4 Deluxe edition (released 2003) comes on a DVD and using 8.2GB HDD space and needs a dualcore CPU at 2.6GHz. The graphics card should be at least meet the level of a 8800GT to run smooth!<\/p>\n

The other versions in between (Societies and SimCity Creator for consoles) don’t count as such as their game depth is stripped down vastly compared to the original SimCity…<\/p>\n

I developed a taste for the game and played it for hours on different platforms and in almost all flavors. Maxis, the origin of all Sim-Games with Will Wright as the father of SimCity have created a game that’s always behaving different each game session you play. That’s real cool and promises hors and hours of game time!<\/p>\n

This is one of the best news from EA since long time and I am greatly looking forward<\/span> to this game. It’s been 9 years since an overhaul has been announced and in 2013, when the game is expected to release, I’ll be one of the Sim-ianers to play the game and again spend hours in concepting the City of my dreams… with the new 3D look and the modern hardware, the in-game experience may become even stronger.<\/p>\n

There are not much games I am looking forward to see… but this one is definitely worthwile waiting for.<\/p>\n

To sweeten the waiting time, I’ve added some more pics for you:<\/p>\n

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Of course these are only concept art pictures but hey… if the game looks similar to this then it’s gonna rock as hell!<\/p>\n

There isn’t much known of the gameplay yet but the trailer looks promising:
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On the GDC 2012 EA and Maxis have shown a new version of SimCity. Simcity 4 is the newest version of the game since 2004, offering a sort-of-isometric view and real 3D objects ingame. The game depth was really high but not higher than in Simcity 3000 (published in 1998). I’m a big fan, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,53,3],"tags":[343,1509,81,1508,1507,36],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-games","category-news","tag-3d","tag-gdc","tag-los-angeles","tag-maxis","tag-simcity","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}