SimCity™: Complete Edition App Reviews

1) After you’ve played a while, and after your city gets to a certain size, the game will crash periodically. I believe that my iMac more than meets the min requirements, so the game just shouldn’t crash like that. 2) On a 27” iMac, the graphics are a bit pixelated when playing full screen. 3) Graphics look kinda old. I’ve played games lately where the graphics were much more realistic.

I have played this game for many hours at least 4 hours a day for the past month. My only complaint is that it consistly crashes. iMac(21.5-inch,Late 2012) 2.7 GHZ Intel Core i5 Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 NVIDA GeForce GT 640M 512 MB

great game , great graphics (depending on your specs), very complete, challenging and fun. people just complain and whine too much in my opinion it may need some fixes but ,hey which game is perfect??/ huh tell me??

There’s a known/reported bug in the tutorial that causes the game to hang up not allowing any action and forcing a hard reboot of the Mac. This issue has been known for TWO YEARS yet it still exists. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

The screen resolution is max out at 1280 x 800. The graphic is very primitive/crude. What a waste of money (even $9.99 after 66% off) for buying this game to play in Macbook Pro Retina 2015 and is not able to play at the Reina screen resolution. The seller, Aspyr, should mention this max screen resolution (1280 x 800) in the game description (there is none at the moment)!

2007 iMac. Runs fine. It does however have a major design flaw that keeps you from being able to really play the game. The share resources does not stay connected to neighboring citys. Thus no steady stream of resources and you spend all your time and money trying to keep that going. Aspire has known about the issue since 2013. You can read about it from the old windows versions forums but they failed to address it before selling it to us. Typical windows ecosystem mentality….

The game is fun and I like it, my problem is it keeps crashing, and now isn’t even opening at all. I have a 2013 iMac 27"

so so so stupid game. I played this game on my cellphone and was very good. but this version is very stupid.

Not bad version but thought I could play online … however not the case kind of disappointed in that feature. It crashes more often … always have to force quit and reopen it gets annoying. wondering if it was worth $9.99

I have faint memories of playing the original Sim City in grade school on an old Macintosh, which morphed into an obsession with Sim City 2000 during my teen years. Then, of course, came Sim City 3000 and Sim City 4. With the release of this latest Sim City version, however, I waited before buying, and boy am I glad I did. The whole launch fiasco and the myriad terrible reviews told me not to waste my money. Then along came this… When I saw a single player Mac App Store version at a discounted price I thought, “What the heck. I’ll give it a shot and see if they’ve managed to work out all the bugs.” Well, I’ve been playing quite a bit for a couple weeks now, and here’s my two cents: *PROS* 1. Gone are many of the annoyances of previous Sim City versions. The most notable being the endless traffic problems and commute times of Sim City 4. 2. Haven’t noticed a single bug in the game yet. Doesn’t mean there aren’t any, but nothing glaring at the outset. It runs flawlessly on defualt settings on my 2014 MacBook Pro. 3. The outstanding gameplay combined with the expansion packs included in the Complete Edition keep the game fresh. Just about the time you get bored or master one strategy for a particular city, you start on another and have to employ a completely different strategy. 4. I thought the smaller city size would really annoy me like it has many others, but it honestly hasn’t been an issue for me. The fact that you are focused more on managing the region as a whole and not just one individual city makes the city size much more understandable. 5. I love that you no longer have to zone low, medium, and high density individually, but can simply upgrade/downgrade roads and the zone density follows. Very nice. 6. It is great that they made this a single player game. Coming from the generation before online multiplayer games, I really didn’t like the idea of sharing a region with a bunch of people. Just give me my city and let me go at it. *CONS* 1. There is no way to view current road density throughout your city apart from hovering over each section with the road upgrade tool. Seems like they would have a road denisty map or overlay. 2. Same goes for traffic. The only way to view traffic is to open the road construction section. Even then, if it’s not currently rush hour, you have no idea which roads are getting backed up. Silly oversight. 3. Even though I love the fact that this is single player, if would be nice to at least have the option to turn on multiplayer and give it a go. Oh well. 4. On that note, because it’s not multiplayer, the Global Market prices are fixed and do not fluctuate. This makes it a little difficult to understand how to most effectively use items like a trade port. 5. Some of the technologies you need/want require several big steps to attain. This isn’t necessarily bad, but can be a little frustrating when you desperately need a particular building and realize that you are waaaay off from being able to get it. SUMMARY This is my first experience with the new Sim City, but it has been an overwhelmingly good one. It seems that they have finally worked out the bugs and made a single player version that long-time Sim City fans can appreciate.

I was expecting this game to run well with high graphical quality, mainly because it was made by Aspyr for the mac version. Sadly however that isnt what i got. I would love to play the game more but for it to run well I am forced to play it on low settings and it still runs slow. I have a Macbook Pro “13” and it runs other games made by Aspyr well such as The Sims 2 Super Collection and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platnium Addition. The game needs to be updated graphically and more optimized for Mac players!!

I don’t get it. I have played every SimCity made, and this version of SimCity, i.e. SimCity Complete Edition, is by far the best version I have ever played. The complexity of the game, combined with the diversity of the regions make this game very enjoyable IF you have a computer that can handle the game. So I wholeheartedly recommend this game!

There is a bug where new construction remains “For Sale” and no one ever moves in. The buildings are not abandoned, they are never lived in. When occupied buildings get replaced with higher density buildings, the new buildings remain vacant, so the population goes down as the buildings grow. Eventually, there is not enough population to provide workers and commercial/industrial become abandonded and the whole city burns down (with all the fire stations closed). Once your city starts behaving this way, there is no correction and the issue spreads to the region. Even buldozing the city entirely and starting over does not fix the problem, so there is no option but to abandon the region. This was a problem in the Windows version back in 2013, but it is not fixed in this version, making the game unplayable.

it crashes my machine. I’m on a maxed out MacBook Pro, and if I’m on for more than a few hours at time (and it’s SimCity, I play for hours), it’ll crash. I do think buying the fully expanded version was well worth the money though - you get a lot of stuff to play with.

I want this to be resolved or I want my money back. This is obviously a problem that a lot of people are having. FIX IT! Or refund peoples’ money. We are your customers. Act like it.

I love SimCity, but this has been a sad waste of money. I bought the game in on sale August of 2015. The game would run on my Mac Book pro, even thought the fans CPU and GPU were being fully used. Baring the occasional crash, I was staisfied. Now the game is no longer supported on OS X El Capitan, after only 8 months. ASPYRS is now saying it could be three months until the game is functional again. Their only suggestion is installing an eariler OS X. I am sad that I have wasted my money on this game.