The SimCity franchise gets a major reboot today with a sixth version that gives players far more detailed control over the cities they create and the individual citizens who live in them. For the most part, reviewers are wowed:
- Farhad Manjoo, Slate: The update is "incredible," he writes. It is "deeper and more realistic than any other sim game I’ve played." What happened in previous versions was largely determined by luck; now you get a trove of "real-time data" on all aspects of city life.
- Chelsea Stark, Mashable: Be warned that the first thing you build in the new game is probably going to fail miserably—but you'll still love playing, writes Stark. "The city feels responsive and alive, and is good at telling you what it needs. Once you learn about the detailed metrics available to you in for each city, it's like a whole different game has opened up."