At
Last! 'SimCity' Players Get
Offline Mode
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Released almost exactly a year ago,
SimCity (a revamped version of the classic city-building game by Will Wright) was a study in what might have been. The game
looked beautiful and had fascinating, intricate concepts behind it, but was plagued by
slow server troubles from Day One
And, worst of all, there was ** way to play it unless you were online with EA's much-maligned
Origin service
Electronic Arts, owners of Maxis, the maker of
SimCity, insisted that
online was the only way it was possible to play. Then it
relented in January and an**unced that an offline, single-player
Mode would be forthcoming. **w it's finally here: check out the details in the video above
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