EA has launched a new website to build up even more anticipation for the launch of SimCity. The site, LetsAllBeMayor.com, is an interactive online event that will allow Sims to watch seven different cities unfold live, while voting on what things should happen in those cities. It's an incredibly clever way for EA to not only remind people about the game every day for the next six (we're currently on day two of seven), but to showcase the various effects that can come about as a result of players' actions.
The first city was “Disaster City”, a “four-hour long ground and pound on a wannabe metropolis.” Before and during the livestream, players could vote on which disasters they wanted to impose on the city, and EA would make it so, making for entertaining watching. The video is essentially one long disaster movie, with the city falling foul of fire, earthquakes, and even zombies. If you'll be wreaking havoc on your cities it's worth checking out what that might look like.
Today's livestream will start in just under three hours and feature a city called Casino City, for obvious reasons. The plan is to create a city of “fancy casinos, luxurious hotels, tourist traps and dirty cops”, though I'm not sure if the cops in this game can actually choose to go rogue. If you're interested, you can watch the city come together live later on today, and even vote on how it should come about; the current poll asks which building the player should remove to replace with a casino out of a park, a police station, and a school (because “learning distracts from gambling”).
SimCity launches on March 8th, and has some kind of pre-order bonus.
