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Thinking about buying Sim City Societies? Wait!

Sim City Societies VS Cities Unlimited

We all know this new game Sim City Societies looks pretty darn good, but we have to understand that this game once it comes out this holiday season, will be a far cry from another new city building game that will be released sometime next year, called Cities Unlimited from Monte Cristo, maker of City Life.

Now I know what your thinking "Oh, but city life was abysmal at best" and it wasn't that impressive, but it layed out the foundation for a much better, new game, which the developer, unlike Tilted Mill, listened to it's users and the people and found out exactly what we wanted in a city building game, realism not just in terrain, but management, and the ability to sculpt the city of your dreams, and actually like it, something I cannot say for Societies unfortunately.

Ultimately, a large majority of people, including those on Simtropolis wanted realism, and the abilities that made Sim City 4 and still does make it one of the best games in that genre of all time. Cities Unlimited will be out most likely next year, maybe during the holiday season or sooner, as some sources leaked.

Regardless, if I haven't caught your attention yet, check out these screenshot comparisons, that perhaps are so dramatically different, they show who actually cares enough to make a worthy city building game like Sim City 4 and it's predecessors.
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Cities Unlimited:

Sim City Societies:


You be the judge.

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Sim City 2000 -- The Game that got it "really" going..

SIM CITY 2000 REVIEW

Let's face it, Sim City is one of the greatest games in the world, and from the first one to the 4th and soon to be 5th, as well as the portable versions, there's no denying sim city is a great and versitile game, that's fun for generations and generations to come. And now, let's review the 2nd in the franchise, which many consider the best one in the entire series besides the first one.
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What you can do in this game is the premis of all sim city games, design build and create the city of your dreams. You guys know most of this so I'm going to let you enjoy it for yourself, here's the download link, enjoy...
http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/download.php?id=77
This is a limited demo I believe, but the full version is still on some of the torrenting sites if you don't feel like finding it to buy on ebay or something.

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Very Dangerous Hurricane Dean close to CAT 5..

HURRICANE DEAN NEARING CATEGORY 5

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (CNN) -- Hurricane Dean battered the southern coast of Jamaica with heavy rains and surf as its eye passed offshore late Sunday, apparently sparing the Caribbean island the worst of its 145 mph winds.

David Shields, the deputy director of the island's tourism board, described conditions in the capital, Kingston, as "absolutely scary."

Ronald Jackson, Jamaica's disaster preparedness director, said at least one house had collapsed, but there were no known serious injuries.

"We'll be sending assessment teams out as soon as we can," Jackson said. See Dean's projected path »

At 11 p.m. ET, Dean's eye was located 135 miles (215 km) west-southwest of Kingston, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, reported. Its top winds of 145 mph (232 km/h) made it a strong Category 4 storm, with hurricane-force winds extending 60 miles from its center.

Sustained winds of 80 mph buffeted Kingston, and amateur radio operators reported streets were flooding, the hurricane center said.

An unofficial observation from Lionel Town, about 30 miles east of the capital, put top winds at 100 mph. And an aviation weather station at Kingston International Airport clocked winds even higher, at 114 mph.

Tropical storm-force winds could be felt as far out as 205 miles from the storm, forecasters reported.

Dean was moving westward at nearly 20 mph as it skirted the island, forecasters said. As it moves into the western Caribbean Sea, the storm retains the potential to become a Category 5 hurricane -- the top of the scale, with winds in excess of 155 mph.

Jamaica Public Service Company -- the sole distributor of electricity in Jamaica -- announced it was turning off the island's electricity to preserve the integrity of the system. In addition, the National Water Commission said it had turned off some pumps, especially in places prone to flooding.

Forecasters predicted Dean would dump anywhere from 5 to 20 inches of rain on the island, with a storm surge of 7 to 9 feet (2 to 3 meters) expected to batter coastal areas.

The storm already has been blamed for at least seven deaths across the Caribbean islands, including two killed as the storm stalked Haiti.

The storm is headed for the Yucatan Peninsula and could regain it's Category 5 strength by then and possibly hitting the Texas and Mexican border head on as a Category 3 or higher which has prompted several evacuations and an early state of emergency for Texas by President Bush to further evacuation efforts in the region.

(Image by Accuweather.com, story copyright 2007 to CNN.com, except the portion by myself in red.)

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What makes you blog?

I've always been curious, I do it to make friends and express myself, I'm curious why you guys do it, to express yourself, talk about your life or just to hang out and have fun and make friends.
^O^ Night!

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So is Aquafina legit or not?

I heard on the television that some of these so called "pure, clear and tasty" waters were actually just purified tap water. What do you think?

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Moving Earth -- Blogosphere Widgets

I like the idea but I wish it was smaller so it could "fit" on more compact blogs. What do you think?

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New Layout Acheived!

I removed all that link crap that was cluttering up the top part, which linked to whoever made this layout. No, it wasn't me, and I'm not trying to hide that or anything, it just looked tacky. GeckoandSky made it and it is nice looking, at least to me, I'll let you guys be the judges on this one. And I have to make a new banner too becuase I realized how noobish the one I had looked.

Until next time, Audios.

1 comments | Posted in » design, etc, etc's, etcs, layout, layouts, yeah  

New Layout Needed Much?

Hey guys. So let's cut to the chase, do you think I should change my layout?
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And as always, a picture of an eyeball that looks really cool to fit in with this layout design changing thing..

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Plan Ahead --Total Lunar Eclipse -- August 28th, 2007

On Aug. 28, skywatchers across much of North America can watch as the Moon crosses into the Earth's shadow and will undergo its second total eclipse in 2007.
West Coast viewers will get the best show.
Lunar eclipses occur when Earth gets between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow. The view is different from each location on the planet. Along the West Coast of Canada and the United States and in Alaska, the entire eclipse will be visible from start to finish before moonset in the early morning hours of that Tuesday. Hawaiians will see totality – when the moon is completely in Earth's shadow – high in their sky around midnight.
In eastern Asia and Australia, the event will occur on the same date but in the evening, since for this part of the world it will coincide with moonrise.

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Nintendo Press Conference :: Sony Press Conference Live @ E3

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The Electronic Gaming Convention :: E3 2007 :: Coverage

E3 has gotten off to a great start. The new Xbox 360 lineup was quite impressive, from a new Naruto game, to Assassin's Creed, and of course Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. All of these games present a future that is bright for the gaming industry, Microsoft included. The future looks great in my opinion. Tommorow I'm going to talk about the Nintendo and Sony conferences which I know will show some great stuff off for the gaming industry. Such as a resigned PSP, which is said to be much sleeker and smaller than the current PSP, and of course, some new Wii titles.

But enough of my rambling, let's take a look at some of these new titles presented by Microsoft earlier this evening. If you missed it I believe you can find it at http://www.gamespot.com/, they do have a live (but delayed by about 5 seconds feed of the conferences) somewhere on there site, obviously highlighted.
Instead of pictures, I figured the trailers would present the game in better light..enjoy.

CALL OF DUTY 4: MODERN WARFARE



NARUTO: RISE OF A NINJA


More To Come!

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Happy Independance Day!!!

HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY!!!

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