GameSpy has a new bit...

[FomarTHain]

Preview

Bit of the preview:

"The Creative city, on the other hand, has street lamps shaped like candy canes and factories that puff out smoke shaped like musical notes and Gingerbread Men. They also have a "Spirit Squad" building that unleashes a horde of cheerleaders to make Sims in the street happy."

I don't know. I am not a SimCity fan but I am a city builder fan from way back to Ceasar I days. This game sounds kinda silly. Zeus is the only city builder I didn't play because I couldn't get past the cartoony graphics. This sounds like it might be the same.

Spirit squad? Candy cane street lamps? What? I know that is only one type of city you can pursue but still sounds kinda silly to me.

Guess we will see later in the year but right now I somewhat skeptical but more puzzled than anything. I'm not quite sure what this game is, what its about or what you are supposed to get out of it. The screenshots I have seen of it don't look very cool. They don't look very cohesive, they look more scattered. Not like a tight city builder.

We'll see.

[Azeem]

I'm guessing that's the most extreme case than the norm. Or at least, that's what I'm hoping!

[mouse]

The way I understand it SC:S is going to have a number of different kinds of cities that can be built with the candy cane type as just one type Since none of know how the game will be structured it's pretty hard to say if it will be anything like the city builders that we have come to expect

[MarkDuffy]

Thank you for the link, FomarTHain!

More beanz !!!

No word yet on what happens when the Men in Black meet the Spirit Squad, but I'm hoping for something spectacular.

< snot laugh >

EDIT: This line from the preview ~ "In fact, with the exception of laying down a road network, there is no player-controlled infrastructure in Societies." I believe to not only be false, but HUGELY false.