10 Awesome Features In Truly Terrible Video Games
1. Multiplayer - Sim City (2013)
The first game franchise that comes to mind when thinking about city management simulators is Sim City. From the humble beginnings of the original, all the way to the incredible Sim City 4, this franchise was the King of City Builders; WAS. That all changed with the release of Sim City in 2013. What we got here was a soulless cash grab with stripped-down features and an always-online attitude. There was nothing positive about this game.
With the exception of the multiplayer.
With this version of the game, you chose an area that had different plots of land to make cities; these plots of land were, by the way, insanely small and could not be extended. Multiplayer allowed you and your friends to each control a city in the area, and to work with and support each other, making for fun and strategic gaming sessions.
Now, the game could be played alone; they also patched the actual offline single-player mode to the game way after release. But maintaining a few cities on your own is tiresome and gets old very easily, almost making the multiplayer feel like more of a requirement than anything else.
At least we now have a superior single-player city builder with Cities Skylines.