The game is not more than a Screensaver

I can every fan and every newcomer to the world of Sim City dringenst only advise against this play money to throw out. In my review I'm going to the always-on (you must be connected to the Internet in order to play Single Player) problem can be somewhat sidelined. Just a note in this regard: The savegames are not stored on EA servers and locally. If EA times "no longer feels like" the game is not playable, since it does not work offline and no savegames are available locally.

Now to the actual problem. On Games measuring the so-called Glassbox engine was presented before publication. This is responsible for the simulation of the game world. So at least in theory. In practice, this looks more like this:
- There is no simulation of Sims! These are generated in the morning, run from any house to the nearest workstation. Evening new Sims are generated from the factories that go the shortest route in the first empty house. As a simulation, you can hardly call the.
- The one with the shortest route is another problem. Is a small road the shortest way, two major highways a little further it is completely empty, is nevertheless taken of all of the shortest path and thus arise unavoidable Super jams.
- The Super jams support further problems of extremely stupid AI. Police, ambulances, fire remains regularly stuck in traffic rather than what you would expect to be taken or the traffic makes way as it is usual in this country free roads. This way you can be above a certain size city save putting up such services virtually since it anyway never reach their destination.
- Again, it goes on with a problem. Cities can also grow without ever police, fire or hospitals set up. Indeed, even jobs are not necessary. A city with residential area and a few parks is the most lucrative ever. Completely illogical that wants to move into a germ-contaminated, from crime and to fire smoke stinking city anybody.
- Even extreme taxes for more income is not a problem. Just the empty building torn down and are already built and the new Sims sheets again cheerfully.
- Cities have completely utopian populations. The inhabitants bears no relation to the existing number of buildings. Such as at a few buildings with a few thousand workers, a city may have more than 100,000 inhabitants is beyond me.

I think slowly it is clear where it's going and would like to write a novel. There are many more problems and bugs in the game, although there are now 4 Patch and one would think the basic problems of the game are fixed. But no, it has practically not changed. Oh but since there is what, expensive new DLCs! The greatest audacity at all, a minimal change in the game (actually it is just new graphics) that you want to buy again for 10 EUR.

Because of the many bugs and problems and not existing simulation (The Glassbox engine is nothing but a trailer video) I can invest any money in only advise this game. The vast majority of reviews speaks for itself.