Maxis Develops Sim City 5, Uses New GlassBox Engine

March 1st, 2012, 09:21 GMT · By Andrei Dumitrescu
Maxis Develops Sim City 5, Uses New GlassBox Engine

Video game developer Maxis is working on a new game in the long-running Sim City series, which will use a brand new engine and will include a number of new mechanics.

Lucy Bradshaw, who is an executive working at Maxis, has apparently confirmed that existence of SimCity 5 to GameStar, a German publication, adding that the publisher Electronic Arts plans to launch the game during 2013.

An official announcement is expected to take place at the Game Developers Conference, which takes place during the coming week in San Francisco, where a sponsored session called “inside the Glassbox” is being planned by Electronic Arts.

The description of the event mentions that the GlassBox engine was “built from the ground up to power the next entry in one of the most beloved franchises” and includes speakers Ocean Quigley, Andrew Willmott and Dan Moskowitz.

It is not clear how the GlassBox engine is linked to Frostbite 2 and other technology that Electronic Arts is currently using to power its games like Battlefield and Need for Speed.

The latest Sim City game was the fourth full one in the series, which was launched during 2003, and since then the publisher has launched a spin-off called Societies and ports of the older games to mobile devices, handhelds and the free-to-play browser space.

Sim City 4 was well received by the player base and reviewers and the game even received an expansion, called Rush Hour, but many players felt that it failed to introduce any real innovation to the veteran series.

Presumably Sim City 5 will pair the introduction of the new GlassBox engine with a revamp of the core game mechanics, allowing for a more organic city creation experience and focusing on clear interaction with the citizen set.

So far Electronic Arts has not commented on the reports about Sim City 5.

好久都沒有這系列的消息聽到還是有點感動
想到自己從2000玩到4還真的有許多回憶在

一直以為這系列已經掛點了...

Societies是很失敗的東西...
系列玩家根本不承認存在...

其實我比較想知到The Sims 3什麼時候推出 ^^;

之前不是自己的模擬市民還可以搬到模擬城市裡面住....

The Sims 3?

你是指4?

言語無法形容。

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夢之都先前就聽過許多人的批評
所以自己也就沒有去玩了

想當初國小在電腦教室玩2000
到後來親戚送一套正版3000
玩過之後才深深迷上這個系列

2000是跨時代的神作...