SimCity Societies Ships Worldwide
Electronics Arts has shipped the newest addition to the SimCity Franchise to stores across North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe today. SimCity Societies takes a different approach to the SimCity concept concentrating more on the societal aspects of the game, while still giving the player the city building experience.
In SimCity Societies, players construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal tendencies and environments as well. They can build artistic cities, authoritarian dictatorships, spiritual communities and many more. With this accessible, innovative and versatile city-builder, players can create the city of their dreams, or their nightmares.
“We are delighted to release this innovative new version of SimCity which focuses on relaxing game-play and creativity,” said Studio Head of The Sims Label, Rod Humble. “Players can create any city they desire with a variety of buildings, cultures, environments and societal behaviors. With all of these options to choose from, SimCity Societies is the most flexible city building game ever!”
SimCity Societies includes over 500 placeable buildings and objects, giving the city designer ultimate control to influence the societal behavior of the city inhabitants. The newest SimCity will also be available on mobile platform in addition to the PC.
System Requirements:
* OS: Windows(R) XP SP2 / Vista*
* Processor: 1.7 GHz Intel CPU or faster, AMD XP 2100+ or faster
* Memory: 512 MB RAM
* Hard drive: at least 2.1 GB free space
* Video card: 128 MB**
* DVD drive: 4 speed
* Sound Card - DirectX 9.0c compatible
* DirectX - Version 9.0c (included on disc)
* Input - Keyboard, Mouse
*Windows Vista requires a 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent and 1 GB RAM.
**Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 or greater; ATI Radeon 9600 or greater; onboard chipsets not supported. Windows Vista requires an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater, ATI Radeon X600 or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
Editor’s Note:
SimCity Societies will include SecuROM, an anti-piracy software program that was the controversy of BioShock during its release in August 2007. It is unclear at this time whether there will be a limit to the number of installations you will receive when purchasing SimCity Societies.
Link to EA SecuROM discussion: The Sims Forums
Link to Readme file: SimCity Societies Readme
Screenshots:
November 13, 2007 at 12:46 pm | Simulation |
November 14th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
They better not have that install limit like in Bioshock. That was the worst idea ever. I will definitely not be buying this game if you can only install it twice. What happens when I want to format? I need to spend five hours uninstalling all my games? What happens if my hard drive crashes and I can’t uninstall?
November 14th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Those are my thoughts exactly…