Standing proud in the cities of the future are the MegaTowers, buildings not so dissimilar to the out-of-town arcologies. While the two aren't mutually exclusive, they're likely to lead you in one direction or another. OmegaCo is much more concerned with profit and can turn just about everything in your city into a franchise of some sort, but will also use metal and oil to manufacture drones that can help out your city services. The former is like a university for environmentalists and in this verdant venue you will plant the seeds for a cleaner, smarter city, researching wave power, fusion reactors and sewage sanitsers. It features two key additions, The Academy and OmegaCo. Ignoring the problems at ground level is tougher. Creating a stunning skyline is almost effortless.
It's a future where technology solves every problem, where bigger is always better and yet where suburban living can still survive, albeit bordered by laser fences. almost.Ĭities of Tomorrow pulls SimCity into a future that lies somewhere between Star Trek and Blade Runner, a glowing fantasy of sleek curves and raging neon. It's a magnificent vision of the future, and the dystopian indignities it sometimes displays almost add to the charm. It's just so beautiful that I want to forgive it all its trespasses. Sometimes it makes a fool of itself but, though I'm loathe to admit this, I care less than I should. Though it stumbles as it steps towards the future, it is at least heading in the right direction. While SimCity collapsed entirely under scrutiny, its first expansion Cities of Tomorrow merely teeters.
Then occasionally, just occasionally, something will knock us out of that daze and we'll realise just how silly the future has turned out. We will be so rapt, so amazed by the omnipresence of progress, that we won't notice that the maglev train has got stuck, that the school bus is circling like a shark, that our friends can't find the shops next door. We will work in buildings that are great sentinels of metal and light. Automated drones will keep us healthy, keep us tidy, even make sure we obey the law. Our homes will be at the top of towers thousands of feet tall, all of them connected by shining bridges that cut through the sky. In the future, we will all live in a daze, stunned by the technology that will surround us.
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