games website "Simcity 5" internal detailed review: The server is the most critical!

A few days ago, I was lucky enough to obtain the test qualification of Electronic Arts' 2013 annual masterpiece "New Simcity" (note, the name of this game is not finalized, and it is still in the poll), so I conducted a trial in advance, and the feeling of this game is very shocking. And on top of this shock is more memory killing...

Things have changed, the studio is still there, but the founder of the studio, Will God, is no longer at EA

Hardware requirements and screen requirements - 10 points: the screen is warm, the configuration is close to the people

The main screen of the game, as my title suggests, this game has been semi-online, or community gamification?

The game EA official configuration requirements are as follows:

CPU: AMD 4000+ or more; INTEL Core2 or more

System: XP or above

Memory: more than 2GB

Graphics card: ATI HD 2X00 or above; nVidia 7800 +

I know that many players may be surprised to see this configuration, as a 3D simulation business game is a new work in 2013, but the configuration pressure is so low is the official kidding? No, basically running this game requires very little configuration on the machine.

The author of the AMD960T+GTX460+8G machine no matter what effect, what resolution (23.5 inch display, the maximum resolution is 1920X1080), the initial game frame number has never been under 60, if you do not lock the frame can even break 100!

But here to say more, the game in the complex city construction, and more than 3 hours of game time, switching map and switching interface will have a duncard, and this is all 3D simulation/strategy games can not avoid the problem, everyone take it easy

Speaking of the game graphics, let's compare the image quality.

As mentioned above, the picture of the new SimCity is very different from that of full open and full close, and in the contrast between full open and full close, light, material, texture, anti-aliasing have a great range of changes. So, as I said earlier, this difference makes the new simulation compatible with almost any player's PC today, and with this configuration requirement, it is estimated that the console will be no problem!

Okay, that last sentence was bullshit.

In the end, it needs to be emphasized that the screenshots of the game shown in this review may give you a feeling of "How the Simcity 5 is a little like a toy style", and some players may not like this effect, which is not the case.

This time SimCity EA has added a shifting camera setting, and the effect of this setting will give the player a feeling that the scenery is much like a model/toy. So when the player enters the game, if they don't like the effect of playing with toys, they can just turn it down. But I do like to shift axes.

The effect of shifting axis photography and the effect of shifting axis photography in reality

The actual experience -- 8 points: paying tribute to old works, sacrificing some details in order to network

I do not know whether the official version will change, but this does not use the actual terrain expansion, creation, development, but has a prescribed regional scope, so it is true that it can greatly reduce the game calculation content, but the size of such a city may be greatly limited, I do not know that this setting in the hearts of old players can pass, The obvious point is that the wonders of the city have been placed outside the city. Is this to save time?

There is also a "save" place is this interface, this interface is not only clean, and more bright, a lot of game content is displayed in intuitive image ICONS, rather than headache numbers. Compared to the previous Sim 4, many of the abstract ICONS in the new Simcity are more realistic, so it can be played by a 7-year-old child, as the game says.

It is very intuitive to see that this terrain is regionalized

The game began to build the road, this time the game provides a variety of modular road design, so you players in the repair of the road as if using PS, the road buildings can be very intuitive "drawing" out. In fact, many of the basic construction content in the game have been added to the auxiliary system in this simulation city, so there is no need to be afraid of their hands shaking, or no art skills and exaggerated "illegal buildings".

Pay attention to the lower left corner, which can assist in drawing squares and curves, making road construction easier

The end of the road is the citizen, this time the residential and commercial area EA made a lot of personalized models, so the development of a certain stage will show a variety of different styles, compared with other uniform construction games a lot better. However, the people in this game are more sensitive than before, and the slightest action can cause the people to be happy/angry.

And citizens have all kinds of eggs

The price of utilities in the New SimCity has generally increased, but many feature buildings have reduced their footprint, but the range of features they offer has increased. It is also because of this that everyone is desperately saving money like a "god costume" to hold public buildings, and people will be relaxed once the buildings are out.

It is also because of this that the finance of this game is not resistant to spending, the tax rate of 15% began to protest, so for a long time it is cheaper to build functional facilities than to go to the neighbor city to buy, if there is complementary town construction with friends here, there is no need to worry about bright deficits - players cooperate with each other, which is one of the core of this Sim city.

The highest road is 12? I'm a fucking mother

Due to the improvement of the functions of the new era, the portrayal of the details of the city in the new Sim city has reached a "outrageous" degree, different behaviors of different citizens have different manifestations on the street, even the same behavior has several styles, such as children can play several patterns, when the dominant player is tired of building the city. You don't get bored looking at your work from a closer perspective.

The picture on the left clearly shows the interior, while the picture on the right shows a gunfight during a bank robbery

For everyone's favorite weather and "God mode" in this BETA, there is not much to show, the day and night of the diva and rain can make the road pedestrians have different performance, but there is no snow at present how to do; And the "God mode" of wind, rain, hail, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes and so on, because BETA is not allowed to use! Points deducted!

There's really so little stuff available in this BETA

Network part of the experience - 6 points: EA your server is not borrowed from Ubisoft

Because the game is semi-networked (somewhere between a stand-alone game and Diablo III, well, Heroes 6), there's more of an online interaction component, and as I said before, there's a bit of an imbalance in output and cost.

This imbalance obviously requires you and your friends to complement each other. According to a long-time SimCity player, most of the complementary content available in the game is actually in the previous SimCity series, but this time it is attached to the Internet platform, such as your water shortage and need to save water for your neighbors. This requires you to pay for it somewhere else, whereas in previous SimCity games this kind of delivery required a pipeline connection, this time as long as the money is in place...

The water came straight through

In fact, the interaction of this kind of social game is very good, saving everyone to play by themselves, but EA's platform is not very friendly to our players, especially Chinese players, slow connection speed and slow communication process will make people anxious, but as a player you play steal vegetables, grow mushrooms, etc., impatient can go to do something else to hang up the game. "New Simcity" this game is a big thing, can hang this kind of game to work/study computer must be what configuration ah!

The most terrible is off the network, I think the recent open may be for stress testing (ah, or when the online game), so in the course of several hours of the game, all kinds of offline, disconnected, connected to the server. If it weren't for the recent "whitelist rumors", I'd be tempted to open a VPN.

Oh, my God. Is there a line to get into the game? Don't tell me that's true of the game

Wait, wait. It's a long wait to start the game

Overall rating - 5 points /9 points, the game itself gets 9 points, if the network is not good only 5 points

Nowadays, more and more single-player games begin to network and semi-network, what "world players interact together", "mainstream community of games", "big network co-prosperity circle" and so on are false, really have a conscience should be LAN Internet.

Therefore, the behavior of the new SimCity semi-network is as obvious as Sima Zhao's heart, which is a "soft DRM" strategy to see that DRM is not perfect. As the saying goes, "Since you can't lock the player on the network with a lock head, lock it on the genuine edition, then use a baited hook to hang the player on it."

And now, the same type of "huge city" is also taking this route, this kind of city simulation business masterpiece has been "united front", we players will suffer.

The line is broken! And I'm connected to the Internet

To be precise, some Chinese players are about to suffer.

For some Chinese players, is there only two ways to open VPN and crack? However, if you take the first road, a good and stable VPN needs additional costs, often not lifelong nature, and the VPN death rate is extremely high in recent years, there is a moderator of the forum next door because of a VPN after paying an annual fee, because of the big VPN death and at every turn howl;

The second way, the semi-network nature of the stand-alone game will leave good things in the network part, crack the Internet will not play will lose a large part of the fun of the game, resulting in a semi-network game evaluation of the loss of fairness, the author likes a game is one of the injured people.

The network is rotten, the whole game is good to play, and now there are too many games that die because of this situation, but the beginning has said that EA's server makes us very nerve-racking! And it is said that the new SimCity will also be released in Chinese, which is not even more sad!

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