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Pandemic · Jun 4, 2012

Official EA 2012 gameplay trailer for SimCity by EA Maxis. SimCity is an online city building simulation game from Maxis Studios. It is the quiessential city builder franchise that started a genre.

First trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SObs9KnK0Ng

Second trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-simcity/730998

SimCity Social E3 Annouce Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2M1DAzDedk&feature=plcp

Looks great.

Suairyu · Jun 4, 2012

Does look good this one. Always online is a downer though.

Data West · Jun 4, 2012

Tied with South Park for the highlight of e3 for me. Strictly conference speaking, at least.

Grinchy · Jun 4, 2012

Yeah that is quite interesting. I haven't played a Sim City game in so damn long.

Jobacca · Jun 4, 2012

I am so excited for this. Looked great.

Pandemic · Jun 4, 2012

Nevermind..

Tucah · Jun 4, 2012

Looks like everything I could want from SimCity, there day one.

Dragoon En Regalia · Jun 4, 2012

This pretty much made the whole EA conference for me. Never mind the mic rubbing, corporate snubbing, and general ass-kissing nature of the whole presentation. This trailer was great, and it's the shining beacon of interest in EA's current line-up.

3N16MA · Jun 4, 2012

Looks pretty amazing.

Quick · Jun 4, 2012

Day 1.

Now, time to re-install my copy of SimCity 4.

vaelic · Jun 4, 2012

looks good but im worried that

EA will make them dumb it down

King_Moc · Jun 4, 2012

Game of E3 so far. By a mile. Awesome tilt-shift effects make me think this could be the game to convince me to go 3D.

Kodiak · Jun 4, 2012

Why does it feel like a complete miracle that this game even exists?

Tiktaalik · Jun 4, 2012

Looks good but they unfortunately didn't show much of anything. It's pretty and that's great, but I'd really like to see some significant improvements to the series' design and gameplay.

Data West · Jun 4, 2012

I wonder how well Sim City would work with a tablet controller...

Dreamwriter · Jun 4, 2012

Both are the same trailer?

Dragoon En Regalia · Jun 4, 2012

This visual style is brilliant. Perfectly-readable when having to switch from one task to another, but it also just looks plain great in screens and in motion.

SimCity on tablet could work very well.

Jinko · Jun 4, 2012

Looks great could do with a better lighting engine though

gate777 · Jun 4, 2012

Day f'n 1! Love simcity

Pandemic · Jun 4, 2012

Just updated the OP with the second trailer that was showcased, and SimCity Social.

ShaneB · Jun 4, 2012

vaelic said:
looks good but im worried that

EA will make them dumb it down

I guess I'm a heathen when I say I hope they actually do just that

I love SimCity, but it can be needlessly complicated.

relaxor · Jun 4, 2012

woohoo

I like that it's called SimCity now that's an improvement.

Dragoon En Regalia · Jun 4, 2012

ShaneB said:
I guess I'm a heathen when I say I hope they actually do just that I love SimCity, but it can be needlessly complicated.

Some would equate this argument to the A-Train games, actually, though I don't necessarily agree that SimCity nor A-Train are overly-complicated/complex/artsy in any way.

D4Danger · Jun 4, 2012

best thing from E3 so far. I expected the worst but it actually looks amazing.

King_Moc · Jun 4, 2012

zoner said:
I wonder how well Sim City would work with a tablet controller...

Perfectly. But I suspect it's not just the controls that will keep this away from consoles though. When Sim City 4 came out, even high end PC's struggled with it.

Cjdamon042 · Jun 4, 2012

Insanely excited about this, it looks great. Really, REALLY can't wait!

Red Blaster · Jun 4, 2012

Not sure how I feel about plopping down individual buildings

Dreamwriter · Jun 4, 2012

ShaneB said:
I guess I'm a heathen when I say I hope they actually do just that I love SimCity, but it can be needlessly complicated.

I kind-of agree, not on the complicatedness really, but SimCity 4 seemed needlessly hard, it was way super hard compared to all previous SimCities. I like SimCity, but I don't want to have to be a real politician or engineer to be able to play it. Though I definitely want it to be more than SimCity Societies, ugh.

ShaneB · Jun 4, 2012

Dragoon En Regalia said:
Some would equate this argument to the A-Train games, actually, though I don't necessarily agree that SimCity nor A-Train are overly-complicated/complex/artsy in any way.

Well I'm just hoping for the sort of "easy to access, difficult to master" game design etc etc.

I wouldn't imagine that's asking for much. At least.. I hope not. I guess I'm just getting old

Dreamwriter said:
I kind-of agree, not on the complicatedness really, but SimCity 4 seemed needlessly hard, it was way super hard compared to all previous SimCities. I like SimCity, but I don't want to have to be a real politician or engineer to be able to play it. Though I definitely want it to be more than SimCity Societies, ugh.

edit:I never played Societies, so I guess I am out of the loop, but I do remember hearing it was definitely not the sort of simplicity I want either.

Haunted · Jun 4, 2012

Someone likes tilt shift.

But it's a good fit for the model world of Sim City. Looks cool.

Broder Salsa · Jun 4, 2012

Tilt shift annoys my eyes, so hope that stuff is completely optional, just too much blur. But otherwise the game looks great, can't wait even though I hate this social connectivity route they are going with every game.

relaxor · Jun 4, 2012

Red Blaster said:
Not sure how I feel about plopping down individual buildings

yes I hope those were just hero buildings

Black-Box · Jun 4, 2012

wonder what Mods will do for this

Dragoon En Regalia · Jun 4, 2012

ShaneB said:
Well I'm just hoping for the sort of "easy to access, difficult to master" game design etc etc.

I wouldn't imagine that's asking for much. At least.. I hope not. I guess I'm just getting old

edit:I never played Societies, so I guess I am out of the loop, but I do remember hearing it was definitely not the sort of simplicity I want either.

You can make complex games that are still very-accessible by the nature of included control schemes and optional resources.

Durante · Jun 4, 2012

I am so happy that even at this brolicious E3 there was a game that was advertised with the fact that it features "Data visualization".

Black-Box · Jun 4, 2012

relaxor said:
yes I hope those were just hero buildings

2 hero buildings right next to each other, I don't think those are hero buildings, sadly. also I hope they working on the building animations, don't like seeing cranes not moving

Pandemic · Jun 4, 2012

Alrighty, substituted the low quality video (trailer 2) for a higher quality one, enjoy.

FieryBalrog · Jun 4, 2012

I'm in.

smokeandmirrors · Jun 4, 2012

vaelic said:
looks good but im worried that

EA will make them dumb it down

Iirc some devs on reddit said it would be a full sim city title. No dumbing down.

Metalmurphy · Jun 4, 2012

Best of Show so far. Looks amazing.

Nlroh · Jun 4, 2012

I'm more excited for SimCity than any other game at E3.

Glix · Jun 4, 2012

This looks SO good.

GregLombardi · Jun 4, 2012

This looks awesome.

Houston3000 · Jun 4, 2012

Red Blaster said:
Not sure how I feel about plopping down individual buildings

You can clearly see empty plots and the buildings growing out of the ground.

You always had to place some buildings; schools, police departments, stadiums, monuments, etc...

gofreak · Jun 4, 2012

Very nice. I guess I'll need a new PC by Feb so.

starmud · Jun 4, 2012

Notrollious said:
Iirc some devs on reddit said it would be a full sim city title. No dumbing down.

thats what simcity social is for

the game looks beautiful

Mr. Luchador · Jun 4, 2012

EXCITED!

Vlodril · Jun 4, 2012

Simcity games always looked so good to me. Too bad i am absolute crap with them. Way to complicated for me unfortunately.

Lonestar · Jun 4, 2012

Metalmurphy said:
Best of Show so far. Looks amazing.

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Marvie_3 · Jun 4, 2012

Looks great. I just wish I had a gaming PC to play it on.

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