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OS X |genre = Simulation |modes = Single-player, multiplayer〔 }} ''SimCity'' (sometimes unofficially labeled ''SimCity 5'') is a city-building and urban planning simulation Massively multiplayer online game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. Released for Microsoft Windows in early March 2013, it is the first major installment in the ''SimCity'' series since the release of ''SimCity 4'' a decade prior. An OS X version was released on August 29, 2013.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-mac-update-and-beyond )〕 The game is considered to be a reboot of the ''SimCity'' series. Players can create a settlement that can grow into a city by zoning land for residential, commercial, or industrial development, as well as building and maintaining public services, transport and utilities. ''SimCity'' uses a new engine called GlassBox, allowing for more detailed simulation than previous games. Throughout its development, ''SimCity'' received critical acclaim for its new engine and reimagined gameplay; however, publications cautioned the game's use of a persistent Internet connection, with which it stores saved games and allows players to share resources. Prior to release, ''SimCity'' received positive reviews; however, the game's launch was met with negative reception as a result of widespread technical problems related to the mandatory use of a network connection to play and save game data. These issues included network outages, problems with saving progress and difficulty connecting to the game's servers. As a result, some reviewers were unable to review the game, labeling the launch as a "disaster" and the game as "unplayably broken", urging players to avoid purchasing the game until the issues were resolved. ==Gameplay== Along with many of the cosmetic changes (such as up-to-date 3D graphics), ''SimCity'' uses the new GlassBox engine. "We try to build what you would expect to see, and that's the game," explains system architect Andrew Willmott, meaning that visual effects such as traffic, economic troubles, and pollution will be more obvious. Two other new features are a multiplayer component and finite resources.〔 Unlike previous games in the series, the game has non-orthogonal and curved roads and zoning areas that can conform to different road types.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GC 2012: Hands-On with SimCity )〕 Types of zones will include residential, commercial and industrial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Look around SimCity, don't get bogged down in charts )〕 The density is driven by the types of roads built around these zones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SimCity Interview: Building On Classic Foundations )〕 Cities in a region are connected to each other via predefined regional networks such as highways, railways, and waterways. Elements such as traffic and air pollution are visible flowing between cities. Cities can trade resources or share public services with their neighbors like garbage collection or health care. Cities can also pool their collective wealth and resources to build a "great work" to provide benefits for the entire region like a massive solar power plant or an international airport. The larger the region, the higher is the number of cities and great works that can be built. *''Terraforming'' – Creative Director Ocean Quigley stated that all of the terraforming in the game is going to be at the civil engineering scale, and will be the natural consequences of laying out roads, developing zones, and placing buildings.〔 *''Transportation options'' – There are a number of options that are included, such as boats, buses, trams, and planes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Maxis Live )〕 *''Customization'' – Maxis has indicated that the game will support modding, but will not do so at launch like previous versions. Modules in ''SimCity'' are attachable structures that can add functionality to existing user-placeable buildings. One example is the extra garage for fire stations, which can provide additional fire trucks for increased protection coverage.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Official Engine Gameplay video )〕 The user interface, which was inspired by Google Maps and infographics, was designed to convey information to the player more clearly than in previous ''SimCity'' games. Animations and color-coded visual cues that represent how efficiently a city functions are only presented when needed at any given moment.〔〔 For instance, opening up the water tower instantly changes the landscape to a clear world where the density of water is recognizable.〔 Or clicking on the sewage tab will immediately show how the waste of the citizens is flowing, and where the system is over capacity.〔〔 Some of the other visualized data include air pollution,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SimCity GlassBox Game Engine Part 2 )〕 power distribution,〔 police coverage,〔 and zones.〔 Many resources in the game are finite. Some are renewable, such as ground water. Lead gameplay engineer Dan Moskowitz stated, "If you've built up an entire city on the economic basis of extracting a certain resource, when that resource runs out your economy will collapse." Different from some previous ''SimCity'' titles, each type of zone (residential, commercial, and industrial) is not divided into density categories. Instead the density of the roads next to them determines the type of buildings that will be created there. This means that there is only one of each zone type, and density of the buildings are determined by the density of the roads. Roads in ''SimCity'' are one of the most fundamental elements of the mechanics. Unlike previous ''SimCity'' games, roads carry water, power, and sewage. There are also many new tools for drawing roads. They include a straight line tool, one for making rectangular road squares, one for making sweeping arcs, one for making circles, and one for making free-form roads. There is also a more diverse range of roads to choose from. Starting at dirt roads and going up to six lane avenues with street car tracks, the density of the roads determines the density of the buildings next to them, so dirt roads will only develop low density buildings. There are two different categories of roads, streets and avenues. Streets are 24 meters wide and avenues are 48 meters wide. Since all streets are the same width, a dirt road can be upgraded to a high density street. In order to upgrade a street to an avenue, one would need to fully demolish the old street and replace it with a larger avenue. When high and low capacity roads intersect, the higher density roads have the right-of-way, thus stop lights and stop signs will be automatically placed. In order to space the roads so there will be enough room for buildings to develop, road guides are shown when hovering over an existing road.〔 The act of road building creates a spline on which the ''SimCity'' Glassbox interacts with the simulation. When these splines intersect it becomes a ''reticulated spline'' which develops the underlying spline network. Players will be able to specialize cities on certain industries, such as manufacturing, tourism, education, or others. Each have distinct appearances, simulation behavior, and economic strategies.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Specialize In What You Love )〕 Players have the option to heavily specialize on one or build multiple specializations in any given city for diversity.〔 The game will feature a simulated global economy. Prices of key resources like oil or food will fluctuate depending on the game world's supply and demand. In particular, if players all over the world are predominantly selling drilled oil from within their game onto the global market, this will drive the price for this resource down. Conversely, a resource that has experienced very little exposure on the world market will be a scarce resource, driving the price up. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SimCity (2013 video game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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