![]() ![]() The latest entry into EA’s all-new city-building game is completely free to play. The good news is, SimCity BuildIt has no upfront cost. The launch was a complete nightmare marred with connection issues, poor AI, and the inability to even enjoy the game offline. This game is free-to-play and reviewed for Android on a Galaxy S5.Remember how excited you were for the PC release of the new SimCity? The wonderful promises of an online, interconnected neighborhood in which you and your friends would have to interact and work together for the benefits of society quickly turned into a nightmare. SimCity BuildIt is available for free on Google Play and the Apple App Store. If you like the feel of collecting objects and watching a city grow over time, then this is the SimCity for you. If you're looking for something similar to the computer game where you can watch a city grow on its own and thrive, then you may want to pass. SimCity BuildIt is a SimCity game, but it isn't. When the game depletes your phone's battery, you can load it up on your tablet and continue to play while your phone is on the charger. It is a blessing and a curse though, because since it does sync, you can play your city on multiple devices. If you signed into Google Play or Facebook to get Achievements or to trade with friends, then your old city will be saved and you have to restore that city to do anything else. To do so you have to clear the data of the game. A big thing I did not like about this game is that you cannot start a new city, ever. If you mess up, you can just bulldoze the building, recoup half the simoleons and try again. This is definitely a game of patience not a game of who can get their city biggest fastest. You will want to try and build all of your housing up all at once and expand the land, but ProTip, don't. It will be months before you will grow it into a major metropolis, unless you're ready to fork over some serious real money for it. This isn't a game that you'll be able to build a city overnight and watch it grow. You'll have to play a long time to get your city to look like Daniel's City, or drop a lot of money on it. You really need to make up your mind on how fast and successful you want to be. This will take about 4-5 days of collecting taxes and filling up cargo ships, or you can buy 40k for around 1300 SimCash. For example, when you are ready to start educating your Sims, you'll need to buy the Department of Education for 40,000 simoleons. With this being a slow game to develop a city, it is begging you to buy simoleons for it, which you have to do with SimCash, which is what you actually buy. With this being a free-to-play game you always have that major choice to make: have patience and not do any microtransactions or buy your way to the top. ![]() This is by far one of the slowest processes ever in a game. ![]() You also earn money by collecting taxes and filling cargo ships with items. You gain money by selling off your items in the global trade, or by taking offers that come up. ![]() The control works the way you would expect it to and the overall gameplay is nice and smooth. You can tell the purists are angry about this by the 1-star ratings it is getting complaining that this is not SimCity, but this is SimCity in the lowest common denominator. When you start the game you will get a feel of it being more like The Sims versus SimCity. Don't have time to set up all of your utilities? They slowly open up as you level up in the game. For example, did you ever have problems balancing your 3 zones? Now those aren't a problem because they are now just buildings that you get to place. SimCity BuildIt is simpler version of SimCity in which the detailed things that people worry about and can ruin a game are much easier. If you want a SimCity game that feels like a SimCity game, you'll be lost in it for hours. If you're looking to play SimCity on your phone like you do your computer, don't bother. When I heard it was free-to-play, I was leery. When I heard that EA was bringing this to mobile devices, I was excited. Even the latest SimCity on Origin I'd play, through the issues and everything. Every time I would play a SimCity game, I would jump on them. I would have happy populations, then have some that blew themselves up. I'd make the dirtiest city, then go all wind power. I would sit there and start a city, blow it up, try again, playing for hours and marveling in my city that I made. Ever since my childhood, I loved SimCity Games. ![]()
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