ManagerJosh
10-31-2007, 05:10 PM
PocketGamer was invited to EA UK Headquarters to demo SimCity Societies for the mobile phone.
Excerpt: If you're a keen PC gamer, you might be aware of the upcoming release of Sim City Societies, which takes more of a focus on social and cultural behaviour. Anyway, it's also getting a mobile version, which is arriving in the next fortnight.
We were invited down to EA's HQ in Chertsey last week to take a look. The game follows last year's Sim City (http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/Sim+City+Mobile/review.asp?c=1804), which we liked, but was a bit on the fiddly side on a mobile handset.
"Sim City was a little bit more hardcore, but Sim City Societies is appealing more to the massmarket," says European Product Manager Tim Carter. "We're trying to make it more accessible for mobile people."
So, this is more scenario based, with you taking over a city that's already laid out. Your job is to bring people into the city, and making sure you have a happy society.
You can read the entire preview here (http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/Sim+City+Societies/news.asp?c=4565).
Excerpt: If you're a keen PC gamer, you might be aware of the upcoming release of Sim City Societies, which takes more of a focus on social and cultural behaviour. Anyway, it's also getting a mobile version, which is arriving in the next fortnight.
We were invited down to EA's HQ in Chertsey last week to take a look. The game follows last year's Sim City (http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/Sim+City+Mobile/review.asp?c=1804), which we liked, but was a bit on the fiddly side on a mobile handset.
"Sim City was a little bit more hardcore, but Sim City Societies is appealing more to the massmarket," says European Product Manager Tim Carter. "We're trying to make it more accessible for mobile people."
So, this is more scenario based, with you taking over a city that's already laid out. Your job is to bring people into the city, and making sure you have a happy society.
You can read the entire preview here (http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Mobile/Sim+City+Societies/news.asp?c=4565).