I am the law
In 1993, Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider starred in Demolition Man--a futuristic film about a utopian future where everyone is happy and nothing bad ever happens because its a police state. Two years later, Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider starred in Judge Dredd--a futuristic film about a dystopian future where everyone is sad and nothing happy ever happens because its a police state. I was reminded of these two parallels as I played SimCitys Cities of Tomorrow expansion, which adds both sides of the potential future to the city-building game.
This brings me to the Judge Dredd side, in which crime and pollution are out of control thanks to Omega, a resource which can be used to make everything better. Omega will allow you to become blindingly rich, but it causes your people to grow fat and lazy--eventually sending drones to do their work for them and never leaving their homes. Both the sad/happy future will benefit from other changes to the game, like giant mega-towers and Mag Levs (monorails), and youll be able to play side-by-side with players who havent purchased the expansion. In other words, yes, its still an always-online affair, but we have to imagine the servers will be ready by the November 12 launch.
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