{"id":38840,"date":"2012-06-01T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38840"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T10:00:30","slug":"simcity-5-screenshots-give-a-close-up-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38840-simcity-5-screenshots-give-a-close-up-view","title":{"rendered":"SimCity 5 screenshots give a close up view"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maxis<\/a> has released three screenshots for the upcoming Sim City 5 (which is simply named SimCity in some sort of attempt to reboot the series, although this makes little sense as SimCity has never been a story and lore-driven franchise, and having an iterative number behind a title just makes logical sense). Whatever EA, I’m keeping it real and calling it SimCity 5!<\/p>\n

Moving on, the screenshots give us a static glimpse on the in-game visuals – previously we have only been treated to concept art.<\/p>\n

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SimCity 5 – University city<\/p><\/div>\n

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SimCity 5 – Sims fighting fires<\/p><\/div>\n

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SimCity 5 – Industrial city<\/p><\/div>\n

SimCity 5 has been dragged into the modern PC gaming era of always-annoying<\/s> always-on internet connectivity requirements. Maxis justifies this by touting a persistent regional and global economy system that’s influenced by all players online, which admittedly does sound pretty interesting.<\/p>\n

Multiplayer features will include cloud saves and persistent statistics. Multiplayer will use an asynchronous server model. Interactions with friends (or foe) will be possible without being simultaneously online.<\/p>\n

Maxis also promises that the game will be offering a rich single-player experience.<\/p>\n

Other notable improvements and features include Glass Box, a data simulation engine. Glass Box is a simulation of resources (wood, water, pollution, labour hours), units (houses, factories, shops, workplaces), maps (uniform grids laid over the world such as coal, oil, forests and land value).<\/p>\n

SimCity 5 is expected to support \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of units (people and vehicles) each with their own self-contained simulation logic and can all be moving at once.<\/p>\n

Zig-zagging roads, pipes and power cables are no more. \u201cFully 3D spline-based paths\u201d replace them, making placements look even on uneven terrain or awkward directions.<\/p>\n

SimCity 5 is tentatively pegged for a 2013 launch.<\/p>\n