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Social City is a brand new game on Facebook in which players build their very own city, and looks like it could be a big hit. Players can create and construct a town however they want it to be. Players are not very restricted when it comes to the way they build their town, so you will see a lot of very individual and unique cities.

If you have played Sim City before then you may get a sense of de-ja-vu in Social City, because the premise of both games is quite similar. Players must concern themselves with money, population, and the population’s happiness in order to progress in Social City.

Social City was very recently released by a gaming company called Playdom, and is a game where you start out with a small city and then try to grow it into something big. They can expand their city by purchasing new buildings, entertainment venues, and landscaping features. Players start with a brief Social City walkthrough in which players learn to keep the population happy by doing things like building places for leisure activities and assigning jobs in the city’s various factories.

Now in order to get more people in your city, you need to provide for them – this means building hotels, apartments and houses that they are able to live in. It is important to build leisure buildings in order to keep your people happy in the city. They each grant a set amount of happiness. In order to make in-game currency you will need to build numerous factories. The larger your population is, the more factories and money you can make.

What makes Social City unique is that the players must take care of the happiness of their city’s residents as well as continue with job assignments in factories to increase income. The cities can be expanded by purchasing expansions of the city limits, which brings in more population. When you unlock new achievements, aside from being really proud of yourself, you are able to share them with various Social City Facebook players. Participants can make their city unique by adding flowers and trees and making roads run through their city. There is a lot of things to accomplish in this game even when you just start out.

There are a number of elements to Social City that may help it become popular in the Facebook gaming industry. For a free Facebook game, the graphics of Social City are pretty good, and it’s easy to find your way around. The game takes place at a quick pace, with barely any lag time. Playdom already has a few other Facebook games that have been quite successful, and there’s no reason the same won’t be true of Social City.

There are very few Social City tips out on the internet now just because Social City is so new, and the game is being improved all the time. For one thing, you can’t rotate buildings and objects. This makes for the bizarre situation of the backs of buildings sometimes facing the streets. Hopefully improvements will be made to the game in future.

Filed under: Fun Stuff on March 19th, 2010