I Played SimCity 2013: Cities of Tomorrow... In 2023

In this video i am going back to SimCity 2013 and trying the one and only expansion pack for the game now in 2023!. Cities of Tomorrow that also came out in 2013, came with new gameplay features that we will explore during this video. Some of the notable once are Mega Towers, OmegaCo, The Academy and the very futuristic Maglev Train.
Join me on a journey through a futuristic city building experience in SimCity 2013 Cities of Tomorrow 10 Years Later in 2023!
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[@fastica]

Dear god, everything looks good but is still hard to believe how small the cities are. From big cities and massive regions in SC4 to tiny squares 10 years later.

[@victiusplays]

Yeah it's sad, they should have kept it closer to what SimCity 4 was 🫤

[@oufukubinta]

You have EA to thank for every deviation from what made the series great

[@nikmuhammad7362]

Yes..small...but depend to another cities in the region. At least now look at cities 2 performance..now I understand why they took this approach.

[@dhillaz]

It looks like when folks do a "1 chunk challenge" in Minecraft

[@Idklmao1502]

All thanks EA for their greed

[@jacobout8759]

Just a tip for the mega towers. Every mega tower has road connections on the sides too, so you can relieve the heavy traffic by connecting it to different roads or mega towers.

[@victiusplays]

That's a great tip! Thanks a lot 😄

[@Darude453]

Damn, the placing of buildings looked so neat in this game. Also the expansions. From what we saw in the Dev Diaries of Cities Skylines 2 they might orientate a bit on the mechanisms of this game.

[@victiusplays]

Noticed that too! Really excited to see how CS 2 turns out 😄

[@LynxErgo]

Could you elaborate?

[@Botar48]

Really nice to see that. Makes it feel like SimCity didn't completely died. Some elements of it at least survived into the Cities Skylines 2.

[@NoDecaf7]

Whoa what a cool expansion. I never messed with it.

[@victiusplays]

First time playing it as well, it was fun enough. But a "better" city would have been great 😂

[@mygetawayart]

the other day i built a new city, full processors specialization, made like 40mil in a couple days and i used the money to fund a new town that was like half industry and OmegaCo, just to turn the first city over to Omega, then i unlocked the drones factories and ploppped a couple in the first city that used some of its processors to make drones and i ended up making so much money that i genuinly had a positive hourly cashflow (despite sinking tens of thousands into the processor factories). Somehow, among all this, i still had room to fit 3 megatowers and 350.000 people in the first city and 150.000 in the second.

[@luckyluca7197]

OmegaCO is cash machine, like EA lol

[@victiusplays]

Wow! Guess I did a terrible job then 😂 I can see the potential with OmegaCo. My problem was the horrible layout and traffic caused by that I think 😅 And that I'm not that good at the game 🤣

[@Gregory-gz3xc]

The biggest fail of this game were super small maps. It was impossible to plan your city. Separate your industrial zone from the residential one. Everything was squeezed together. Many times i had no space to add more buildings. That was the main problem of this game.

[@Tedger]

For me it was the gridlocks eternal..

[@Dat-Mudkip]

Biggest letdown for me was that you could only play it via EAPlay. If it was on Steam I think it would have helped a lot. (...that, and the online only thing they tried to cram in.)

[@mapperid]

Tbh, I love this Simcity building style. It's like refreshing. I wish that someday the developers redevelop this game better.

[@victiusplays]

It is, I just wish they kept the game closer to what SimCity 4 was. At least for the plot sizes, they are a bit small

[@oufukubinta]

The studio Maxis was closed by EA shortly after the release of this title so sadly that can't happen. At least we have CS2 to look forward to now

[@Idklmao1502]

Maxis shut down under the commands of EA so.... Hey, we got CS2 for it's replacement

[@Gizrah]

The best part of this expansion is the music. It's just fantastic. And because of how SimCity worked, I found it more satisfying to play than Cities Skylines. Despite the small areas to build in, the synergy you could create between various cities each doing its own thing was amazing. SimCity focused more on city building and planning and not on micromanaging traffic, which was what stopped me from really getting in to C:S, despite it being objectively 'better' in most aspects.

[@jneu7103]

Looks so good. Maybe the devs of Cities Skylines 2 will be inspired by this. According to the trailers, you can expand buildings. Would be a cool DLC

[@victiusplays]

You never know 🤔 It's a neat progression to see an already build "modern" city turn into a futuristic one. Instead of building either or 😅

[@FARBerserker]

Cities Skylines 2 takes so much from SimCity2013 it is insane. The roads carrying utilities, the actual road building, the expandable buildings . .

[@FARBerserker]

@@victiusplays Cities Skylines 2 takes so much from SimCity2013 it is insane. The roads carrying utilities, the actual road building, the expandable buildings . .

[@daftwulli6145]

@@FARBerserker more like it takes from the most popular mods of CS 1. I saw the videos of people who got to play the closed beta, and those are clearly mods of cs 1 implemented into cs 2

[@iannnavas]

IMO gamedevs should be VERY CAREFUL when making a project with "futuristic characteristics", like futuristic cities, cars flying (not available in SC Cities of Tomorrow thank god). Usually this kind of project is more difficult to please the audience and sell lots of units. If they replaced Cities of Tomorrow for "Bigger Cities, Bigger Maps, Bigger Regions" lol, I think that the game would continued.

[@RyokoVT]

This is what I've always wanted in Cities Skylines. A DLC that just turns my city into either a utopia or a dystopia depending on how I run it, or how I want it to be. I loooove this futurist nonsense.

[@victiusplays]

I can only agree! Could be interesting seeing a new take on the futuristic theme in a city builder. Not like Anno. But with the same progression from a "modern" city to the futuristic over time 😄

[@wheatley7612]

Yeah! I love this expansion. I am a Omega Co. Special Guest! Good that you placed our factory!

[@dylanmcwilliam]

If there's one thing cities skylines 2 can take from this game, its the art style and music, in pretty much only that way, it is infinitely better than skylines, its crazy how much better it looks than a game that came out 2 years later

[@victiusplays]

I don't think Skylines looks to bad honestly. That being said I have always enjoyed Maxis art style and especially the music! 😄

[@dylanmcwilliam]

@@victiusplays it doesn't look bad per se, I just think that simcity looks better, and in all fairness as ypu kinda pointed out maxis does have an amazing style and their music is great

[@WheeledHamster]

The amount of details and character to every single building is insane, you can scroll by their windows to look inside.

[@NationGamer090]

One thing that annoyed me very much is, how small the maps are... You can't really build large cities, because the map just allows small townships...

[@victiusplays]

I agree! They should have kept it closer to what SimCity 4 was 😅

[@miguelkeeler7747]

The only reason why I played Sim City. Such a cool expansion.

[@Dj3ndo]

The whole core is great and holds up well today. Its mostly the tiny town size maps that holds it back. Such a shame because i love the general gameplay!

[@mcsomeone2681]

Although I think skylines is the better of the two I think SimCity definitely has better aesthetics, skylines tries to flatten every lot and I always end up with jagged terrain, plus the little details like graffiti appearing on buildings with a high crime level is something sorely missing from skylines, no matter how bad my cities get in skylines they always look perfect apart from the constant complaint notifications.

[@Beartic.]

Loved your channel and your simcity videos, its been such a long time since i saw someone playing this game lol. What do you think of it? It is now on sale for 8usd with all the dlc included and your vids made me kinda tempted lmao

[@victiusplays]

Thanks! Appreciate the support 🙏😄 Its really up to you I would say, if you could se yourself playing it. It's definitely not Cities skylines but I would say still pretty fun for what it is. I have it through GamePass Ultimate. Usually you can get a month trial of that for 1 USD, of you haven't used it already with your email 😅

[@FARBerserker]

i wish there were something like this for cities skylines or cities skylines 2

[@krisculin9679]

I'm tempted to play SC2013 before CS2 comes out in October. There were a lot of "issues" with the game but there were a lot of great things. One of the many great things was delivering water and electricity automatically via the roads. The other was road layout. Yet another was how bus lines worked (just put down your stops and done). And schools had their own separate bus lines as well. Expansion of buildings was yet another. A lot of these features are going to be in CS2 - but they will also be different in a lot of ways as well. I can't wait for CS2. One of the big issues with SC2013 was the map size. Not to mention the inability to terraform. It made things a lot more complicated. Though one of the "great" things was the ability to share a region with other players and this is far superior to what Steam provides. SimCity may have started it all, but CS is what has continued the tradition. CS2 is going to take it to the next level. I just know it.

[@victiusplays]

I mean the game it self is rather fun. So I would say if you already own it, it doesn't hurt to try it. I hear from other comments that there is a mod for making the building area bigger. Project Orion it think 😅

[@krisculin9679]

@@victiusplaysI've played SC2013 for 2 days straight. First, CS is a far superior game. There is no question in my mind about that. There controls are better, the layout is better. Finding stuff is easier - sans mods - plus a whole host of other stuff. However, I find myself creating BETTER cities now in SC2013 than I did pre-CS. What I've learned over the last 8 years or so with CS has taught me to play better in SC2013. I still can't wait for CS2 though.

[@grahamsmith9462]

Recently bought SimCity 2013 + DLCs in EA sale so this overview is really helpful.

[@victiusplays]

Glad the video could be of use! Thanks for watching 🙏😄

[@Beartic.]

is it worth it to buy? Im really tempted rn lol

[@grahamsmith9462]

@@Beartic.On sale again 75% discount from EA for next few days. Recommend Complete Edition with all DLCs included. A bargain! I like the smaller size interconnected cities with their own specialisations. Hope Skylines 2 picks up on some of these ideas.

[@ReviveHF]

Two things that Sim City 2013 did better than Cities Skylines were the musics and sound designs. If you click any individual buildings, you can hear every unique soundscape within that buildings. For example if you click the Nuclear Power Plant building you can hear scientists and engineers are clicking computer buttons while the reactor is humming. If you click on the middle class commercial shop, you will hear people are taking things from the shelter while the cashier is busying counting money along the the elevator music playing in the background. None of the sound effects exist in Cities Skylines 1 and 2.

[@call_me_river]

3:38 there is no demand specifically in the mega tower. The demand is for the city as a whole.

[@MatthiasAI]

I remember my first time switching one of my cities to a "cities of tommorow" and it was downhill so quick, def gotta build abit differently for them lol

[@victiusplays]

Yeah, Im planning to give cities of tomorrow another go. With a city that is designed a bit better to actually utilize the towers and placements 😄

[@oufukubinta]

It's not a bad game since they've made it playable offline, but I wouldn't waste time playing it on those ridiculously tiny maps now that I've got CS with all expansion packs and 8000 Steam assets

[@Auderman]

If city size was been customizable and could be expanded SIMCITY would be the game further beyond cities skylines and would make much more money to EA. Yes, city size was only one MAJOR problem with this game. Also singleplayer mode was added to late to be sure.

[@Foxy_AR]

your traffic is still better than in my town in cities skylines

[@victiusplays]

I hope not 😂 But I know Skylines can be brutal with the traffic, still not good at managing it when I play 😅

[@FenceAKAGlasnost]

When is CS2 going to have their own Dr Vu?

[@northeasturbanist]

You made Night City 😂

[@victiusplays]

Had to look of some screenshots, never played Cyberpunk. But I mean it's not far off 😂

[@call_me_river]

8:01 control net is generated by the academy, it doesn’t use it.

[@FirstGateNAN]

Times when EA ruined the whole series, sc2013 has so much potential but EA limit everything! I feel sorry for MAXIS and the whole fanbase

[@derFuchsi]

I still miss Sim City. It was more fun than Cities Skylines because you have things to do besides optimizing your traffic. Always upgrading and building stuff to satisfy your citizens.

[@jordanking7711]

From the small map sizes, to the STUPID always online requirement, and everything in between, it's CLEAR to see why SimCity 5 died. And before anyone says 'oh but they added in offline play after the fact' yeah okay, but it was too little too late then. Because here's the thing. You still had to be on their servers.

[@pokmon987]

The aesthetic and design choices of this expansion are what made SimCity 2013 so memorable to me. So sad how EA killed off the SimCity Maxis studio

[@GeorgeMonet]

I still play this simcity once in a while. But that city size is really tiny.

[@victiusplays]

I would say, it is a fun game and the cities of tomorrow dlc is quite good. Sometimes I need something that is not Cities Skylines 😅

[@gossamera4665]

Oh it's that one simcity I never played, the maps were too small.

[@victiusplays]

Yeaaa... The future stuff though was pretty interesting 😅

[@RETROPlayground-lz6xk]

would be nice if the building style in SimCity were the same in Cities Skylines.

[@SmallGadgetMan]

If your city is depressed just place a ton of Nissan leaf stations. Boom. Happy for no reason.

[@victiusplays]

Seriously? 😅 is that what Nissans do to people 😂

[@SmallGadgetMan]

@@victiusplays in simcity yes! It was a add on that was broken in my opinion. No matter where you put one, the residents all over get happy. You can add as many as you like 😂

[@victiusplays]

@@SmallGadgetMan Huh, how about that. Never knew 😂

[@littlemouse7066]

SimCity is cute I played it some years ago but there is no comparison with Cities Skylines which is the greatest city builder ever made at least for now.

[@unchifer]

simcity tinha tanto para melhorar :'), os jogadores só queriam mais espaço para construir...

[@Slothamn]

Nice video

[@victiusplays]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙏😄

[@swagkuchen4764]

man you make me want to play simcity or cities skylines again. but my PC broke :(

[@victiusplays]

If you got a console Skylines is available there 😅

[@swagkuchen4764]

@@victiusplays true! Maybe I should fire that up again, havent used my xbox in years

[@pinguaina]

Do a modded version where you can build outside of the city's limits and build a huge city.

[@victiusplays]

Year I saw that mod! It really seemed interesting 🤔

[@DoubleDe]

I really don’t understand why u only have 2 roads connecting to the main road. Of course flow has to pass through those only passing points

[@uehara7973]

You should get more taxes! low wealth - $12 mid wealth -$11 high wealth - $10

[@ADHDCustomerservice]

I am open to play on a shared server if you're still streaming 😊

[@Sett86]

I actually liked Sim City when it came out. I tried C:S back then and it felt like glorified tech demo. An alpha version of the game, obviously made with love , but by a bunch of nerds with zero sense what UI is or what it should look like. I absolutely loved SC:CoT. Bit of Star Trek here, bit of Cyberpunk there, and what's that, is that a Fallout thing going on there? What's not to like? And then i tried a later build of C:S with a bunch of DLCs and a whole lot of mods, and boy am I never going back to EA... Sim City is not shallow, certainly not by the industry's standards, but compared to C:S it's like Uno compared to Magic the gathering. They're both in the same cathegory alright, but one of them is an altogether different beast....

[@adina30]

The mega towers look so out of place 😭😭, especially since this city is so flat, very danish of you to build it like that

[@victiusplays]

I know, its not pretty 🙄 But hey, it's not my fault Denmark is completely flat, I don't know any better 😂

[@Murstruck2.0electricboogaloo]

You should do a mini review on the SimCity mobile game "SimCity Buildit" but it includes alot of ads an since its an EA game Its p2p

[@adiprasetyo7]

btw does this game need internet to play? or I can play it offline?

[@victiusplays]

If you play the single player mode it's offline 😄 Unlike when it released in 2013 😅

[@FARBerserker]

do a new city, one dedicated and planned for cities of tomorrow. processors are easy, if you can unlock the processor factory early. because all you need then is a recycling center that produces alloy and plastics and then you are good to go. Processors sell for big money by themselves as well. 100k per lot.

[@victiusplays]

I could try to do that at some point, would probably be better than using a city I build without thinking to much about layout 😅

[@FARBerserker]

@@victiusplaysand on a plot that is not good for actually building. don't try to be fancy and challenge yourself by making a bad plot work. and even if you do not go for omega drones, the fastest way to make good money from trade is to beeline the processor factory and the recycling center. you need to get high wealth and high tech industry buildings somehow, i think. good education will mean more recycling. which will also help with the garbage piling up problem. fuck metal, just do plastic and alloy reclamation, 2 lines each. that is enough to feed a fully built up processor factory for the most part and as i wrote before, processor sell of obscene ammounts of money and because you do it from recycling, you are not actually dependent on the actually VERY FINITE ressources oil and ore for this. Meaning you can use oil and ore for omega instead. If you want to do omega too and not just a nice clean academy city for even more obscene ammounts of money, then you need to do it on a plot with both huge ammounts of ore and oil and you need to build around the ore mine and the oil drilling wells. Place the omega factories close or in between them. And then you can use the low level appartment level megatowers to supply the workers for that if you want. not really needed. in most cases the towers will create more problems than they solve.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

question: why didn't you use the new energy thing tho? or did you and you just didn't show?

[@victiusplays]

Well... Sort of, not the once you can place after researching at the academy. I used the solar panel crown on two mega towers 😅

[@markp2085]

If it wasn't for the stupidly tiny cities you are limited to, this would be a great game.

[@Crooked-60]

More SimCity I need more I need my fix

[@Vibeonn]

I uninstalled it recently because I couldn't move it to my other drive, now I can't reinstall it through the EA app! Such a shame honestly.

[@luckyluca7197]

Cheat: ALT+U - Toggle Futurization ALT+N - Toggle infinite ControlNet

[@victiusplays]

Huh how about that 😅 Don't tend to use cheats though 😄

[@davidagullo3786]

Commenting for the might KZbin Algorithm Gods

[@victiusplays]

Appreciate the support! Thanks for watching 🙏😄

[@dotdot7911]

The only thing I hate about sim city 2013 is that the cities are designed to be drivealbe not walkable. Cities should be for the people not cars

[@victiusplays]

Yeah that's true! Traffic can be a nightmare and there is no way to encourage walking. Then its only public transport instead of cars.

[@PtrkHrnk]

The audio is a bit too quiet, the commentary especially.

[@someoneinasia]

ngl, the stylized graphics still looks better than CS2.

[@victiusplays]

Tbh haven't seen much of CS2 I'm saved a lot of the surprises for release 😅

[@ankursahu269]

Please made a city USA poor people please sir please

[@vox7441]

Vic lets go do multiplayer lobby for subs/for vid content

[@victiusplays]

That could actually be really fun! 😄

[@thanatosxiii]

This game had so much potential but ruined by EA. Full of bugs.