Sim City 5 announcement leaked!!!!
 

So, today, pictures leaked of Sim City 5. An official announcement should happen next week.

And the pictures? Oh, they are pretty, a mixture of concept art and actual gameplay.

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Some of the details include:

-If unemployment is too high, parks will fill with homeless.

-Citizens go shopping, to school, and work. You can watch them scurry along the streets.

-There are actually construction workers on the buildings and infrastructure.

-Buildings have more variety. This means that the police station, for example, will have multiple different looks.

-Winding roads!

This is all that has been revealed so far. I'm sure we will find out more soon.

Oh, and all information from Kotaku.com

Alright!!! Thanks for the scoop!


I'm a simcity addict, I thought I was never gonna see a sc5!!

I hope it won't be anything like Sim City Societies, which wasn't all that great. I also hope that it won't be so graphic intensive that it makes computers lag when the cities get too big.

Otherwise I'm thrilled they are doing a new Sim City. It's been long overdue.

Hmmm... interesting. I was hoping it would maybe look a little more authentic rather than stylized, but it definitely looks better than SimCity Societies. I'll definitely wait for more screenshots to make a solid judgement. I guess I've been so disappointed by recent half-assed PC games and simulators I'm just naturally a bit skeptical. Indeed, a real SimCity 5 is outrageously overdue.

Sorry. Quick correction on my part. All of the above is Concept Art. So, the actual game will look more realistic. Sorry for the confusion.

Fuck! I AM EXCITED!!!

The concepts photos for SC4 turned out much different from what SC4 actually was. The finished product was less cartoony and more versatile. If they're going to go with the numbering scheme instead of the naming scheme, then hopefully SC5 will follow in the footsteps of previous Sim Cities and not Societies.

Good points! A lot to get excited about!! :)

this is awesome news!

i've played every simcity since the original one about 20 years ago.

here's some more tidbits from shacknews.com:

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If accurate, the new engine allows you to pan in close enough to read the signs on stores, or zoom out for a more traditional SimCity overhead view. Those buildings will be upgraded as you progress; catching 10 criminals upgrades the police station, for example. Roads can actually wind instead of being locked to a stiff grid, and you'll find complex relationships between various factors like population density and land value. Keeping an eye on crime will help quell the risk of fire and increase the value of land. Events in your city will be reported in the local newspaper in both single- and multiplayer.

That multiplayer mode lets you manage your areas cooperatively, and visit friends' cities to share resources and territory. You can visit a fellow player's City Hall to make an agreement that will spur job growth. The game will also offer global leaderboards for factors like economics or production of raw materials.

:cheers:

Oh my, this is bigger than Uncle Sam's nipples!!

ah, family guy reference...

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...x-Unclesam.png

WHAT?! OMG, score!

And one of the few that I would actually consider using.

Never liked how the successors to SC4 had that Sci-Fi, surreal look to them. SC4 seem to be the most convincing of Western urbanity. This concept seems all in the spirit of Societies. I'll pass on this.

Sweet, we can make a SSP nation. I'll build sprawling suburbs.

How can you pass on this without even seeing any real screens?

Wow! I thought for sure that the glorious days of the REAL SimCity franchise had ground to a close; that SimCity 4 was to be the last real City builder, marking an end to that age of city building which all but consumed a decade of my gaming life.

I really am amazed by this news. I almost feel emotional about it. *sniff*:rolleyes: I'll be watching eagerly for new SimCity news, and if/when SC5 is released, I most certainly will buy not one, but two copies.

This is exactly what I was thinking. I liked when the buildings and cities looked realistic. Sim City 3000 specifically. I wish they could just take the material from SC3K and remake it. That is still my favorite game of all time. :ack:

I know, which is why I was very careful the way I chose my words. I said the spirit of the concepts.

Whether leaked deliberately or not, they provide insight into the game's character. Will it be cartoonish, realistic, quirky? The images show the creator's intentions and what they will develop upon. It's rare that there would be a dramatic departure from the initial concept....especially at the alleged 30% completion stage. Clearly the buildings will carry a different language than those of SC4. There will likely be some more embellishment but I think the images show enough detail that will closely resemble the product they deliver.

I see the Conde Naste Building in the broader pan-out shot. EXCITED! :)

Exciting news!

Woohoo! I'm glad Maxis decided to continue the series (assuming it's still Maxis). I thought the series was dead after the Sim City Societies blunder. Can't wait! :D

While not wanting to start a wish list/what I hope to see in SC5 I would like to see more detail in the transportation aspect of the game. Not just subways but streetcars and light rail.

Also one thing I always thought would be cool was as you developed your bus system that you would be able to actually map out the routes instead of just plopping bus stops where demand is needed and have the buses aimlessly go through town.

Buses and Metros are one of the things Cities XL did right. I hope to see actual transit routes in a new Sim City.

+1

I especially liked the Asian and European building sets. Once I got onto those, I could never get myself back to the North American variety.

I can't imagine we will ever see something like that again :(

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Something for the new Sim City. Gameplay? Trailer? We'll find out later this week.

As lomg as this is more similar to SC4 and not simcity societies or cities XL I will be very happy.
Some updates I would like would be better transit options, street view, residential buildings that don't have nojob zots so often even though they are surrounded by commercial, and possibly mixed use buildings.

WOW, I cannot tell you how ecstatic I am if this is true! But some of the concept art looks kind of cartoon-ish, much like sim city societies. Butt im glad its only concept art. What would be really cool is if they added time periods, like starting with the 1920's and going though all the different architectural styles.

The multiplayer mode sounds amazing.

SimCity 5 doesn't look like it will be a first-person shooter. I am glad.

what?

damit ea why did u have to pull that video now left wondering what it showed

it is litteraly being anounced offialy right now
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/02/29/ea-game-changers

Official Trailer.

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Wow I am very impressed. Hope this game relies less on Industry and more on Commercial. I also hope you can build multi-use buildings. I hope the graphics are as good as the trailer, then we will know why it took Maxis/EA so long to release it :tup:

Sim City 5!!!!!! I wasted basically the first semester of my freshman year in college playing simcity 4. I never actually played the game but downloaded a billion models and built the cities building by building trying to make them ultra realistic. I hope SimCity 5 looks even more real than Sim City 4. I dont know if Ill ever have the time to play the game again, but maybe I will. Ill for sure buy it if it looks kick ass.

All I can say is that I hope the release is as good as the news.

Many city simulator games have tried but failed to match the popularity of SimCity 4... CitiesXL looked like it did a reasonable job, but its original bias towards MMO and some lingering issues after its initial release ultimately doomed the company that made it... and let's not mention SimCity Societies, made by a different contractor of EA, which was two steps backwards with a rigid grid and lack of build freedom, among other things.

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I started playing Sim City 2000 when I was 7 years old. I have been obsessed with each game ever since.

About freaking time, though. It's been a decade and although SimCity 4 has been massively improved upon through modding and other custom content, I really hope for a true successor that can improve things that you simply cannot mod.

Looks amazing! Can't wait.

Check out the website.
http://www.simcity.com/en_US

awesome i wait since 5 years!

In 1992, my uncle got a Super NES. Because it was on sale, he also got SimCity.

Some of my earliest memories are of playing SimCity. I still have that copy of SimCity. When our house flooded 6 years ago, it was one of the things I saved. Hard to believe that it is 21 years old now. Pong was younger than that when that version of SimCity was released.

If we set transit funding too low, do SimMikeTorontos protest? :D

2013. The year that I disappear.

If the game lives up to our hopes, this forum will be a ghost town for a while until people start posting photos of their cities.

I'm too old for this shit. Now watch my career go down the toilet starting in 2013.

I'm psyched--this is by far my favorite game, and I still play it--but I doubt my laptop can handle the new graphics engine. Just saying.

I don't think any laptops will be able to handle this game until the game is at least 5 years old.

AAAaaaaaaaand we have GAMEPLAY!!!

http://www.hardwareclips.com/hdvideo...not-final-1of4

You should know that, as the game comes out in 2013, what you see is nowhere closed to finished. The graphics will look significantly better, as the developers say that the game is only 30% completed. Even so: Holy shit! It looks great! A little cartoon-y, but still great!

y'all probably saw this by now - but they give some details the last half, like the idea of tilt shift etc

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The thing I remember most about the first SimCity was that the rail transit would sometime get stuck and just go back and forth and sometimes just randomly disappear.