Sim Mars

[X3ph37]

The website doesn't work anymore. But you can still see it on the wayback machine. :)

[rickardo004]

If only they put as much effort into the simcity franchisees rather than only the sims :(

[AquarianWarKitten]

hehe thirty seconds to mars

[FrakkinUsername]

I still have the old sim city 3000 cd-rom with this demo video on, and the first "the sims'" game, ha those good times

[runelee]

this is only a mod for simcity 4 deluxe edition now. the third beta is being worked on and your suposed to be able to switch from regular simcity 4 and simmars in that beta.

[LordEarth69]

they need to make this game

[justinlego001]

@LordEarth69

They already did, but I think it is still in beta testing! Its a mod for Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition. It doesn't work with Sim City 4.

[LightcycleChampion]

Some elements of Sim Mars (i.e. Planet Terraforming) were incorporated into Spore's Space Stage.

[valcaron]

SimEarth is probably where Maxis first implemented this concept.

The game had scenarios where you had to gradually turn a molten rock planet into an Earth-like one where terraformers were prominent. And it was much more fun than anything Spore had.

[LightcycleChampion]

Sim Mars, from what I believe, was originally intended to combine elements from many other Sim games, while at the same time, adding realism with help from NASA. But then NASA dropped out for some reason, and Maxis was undergoing a ton of financial issues at the time. The project was dropped, EA bought Maxis, and by the time everything got unscrambled at Maxis, Will Wright started to try to revive the Sim Mars concept with "Sim Everything", which evolved into Spore.

I think...

[puper15]

@LightcycleChampmars sims mars was being made when sim city 3000 was made this clip was included im sim city 3000 for what i know maxis had postponed this game for some time then the game was cancelled around sims 2 for 2 reasons. 1 was that ea had financial issues and 2 that NASA was helping them and they droped out.

ea had bought maxis and in the end this game had no hope

but rumors have it that ea is still working on this project

[LightcycleChampion]

@puper15

There have been rumors about it, and it certainly would be cool to see it revived, but quite honestly, almost all innovative features of this were worked into Spore, albeit dumbed down extensively like the rest of that massive disappointment.

[puper15]

@puper15 I have been doing some studying and it turns out that there was a THIRD reason that it was shelved one two words Sims ville yes sims ville

it turns out that EA where working on two sims games

now let me get back to reason 1 the financial issues made them chose one game to make and they decided to work on sims ville and shelve sims mars and a few years later sims ville got shelved so sad. one more thing 10 years later ea found sims mars files and decided to use the idea on spore.

[justinlego001]

@LightcycleChampion

It did not evolve into Spore because Spore is nothing like Sim City. It is way different..

[LightcycleChampion]

@justinlego001

I never said it was anything like Sim City.

[MysteryMan248]

I think simmars will be rejoined by maxis though a few people are still making some progress on it while they wait

[Ndragonawa]

Is this vid about the SC4 mod SimMars, or a never released separate game?

[jebelzile]

No it's was supposed to be a separate game that would of have a lot of success, but it's on hold because of The Sims 1 - 2 - 3 .

[sputnikoftheus]

they should make a game like SimCity 4, except on the moon (with better graphics than MoonTycoon)

[Jordon0670]

cool haha

[InnerManiax]

Yup. It was.

[Logales]

Was it a project from Maxis ?