Cities of Tomorrow isn't a bad expansion if you're already a big fan of SimCity and are itching for new ways with which to test your city-building skills within Maxis' sandbox. The new facilities add alternative approaches to creating prosperous cities of utopian wonder or unbridled capitalism. They can be appealing and even fun to experiment with,...
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow2013
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow
2013 Electronic Arts63Worthwhile
Overview
Create towering multi-zone MegaTowers that allow your Sims to live, work, and play without ever having to touch the ground. Unlock two new city specializations that allow you to build a resource-hungry mega corporation powered by a low-wealth workforce, or an urban utopia that develops clean technology and is controlled by the rich. Watch your city transform as it adapts to the changing times, with new options based on real-world technology such as Mag Levs that rise above the city streets and small buildings, futurized vehicles, and service drones. Brace yourself for an all-new type of disaster only fitting a technologically-advanced economy: a giant robot attack on your city! Inspire tourists to flock to your city with this tourism MegaTower crown! With eight MegaTower levels, you can top your MegaTower with this thrilling roller coaster crown. The perfect complement to any tourism or amusement park city, this crown draws crowds of tourists to have fun and spend money at this tourism...
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Worthwhile- Metacritic61from 15 reviews
- OpenCritic63from 9 reviews
More stuff crammed into cities that are too small still makes the game frustrating despite Maxis' best effort. Only pick this up if you're a fanatic.
SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow is a visually appealing addition that unfortunately only runs skin-deep. It's an attractive new world that can be developed under your whim, but it doesn't fix any of the core issues SimCity had in the first place, and actually makes them more apparent.
The content it adds is beautiful, appealing to existing fans, and often successful as a brute force method of overcoming some of the game's original limitations. But for all the ways in which aims to take SimCity into the future, it remains tethered firmly to its past. Due to the peculiarities of its simulation, Origin's temperamental connection, and...
In a nut shell, I dig Cities of Tomorrow more than vanilla SimCity. While the game has been massively patched to fix many of the release issues, the game is still not without its frustrations.