The choice of whether to utilize prebuilt models or not is characteristic of GearCity's approach to gameplay: despite the apparent (and initially, perhaps somewhat overwhelming) level of detail involved in the car design pipeline, it is made completely accessible to someone more interested in the tycoon genre than cars. It features a neat little car designer applet in which you start with a basic body and attach a range of props to make a car body that is truly yours, but for those of us not too inclined to tinker there are a range of prebuilt models to choose from. GearCity takes the concept of 'car manufacturing' and wraps it in a neat package of player agency, attention to detail, spreadsheets and retro tycoon charm.Īt the mercy of a powerful world economy simulation - in the default game mode, spanning history from the beginning of the 20th century onwards - you will design, manufacture, market and hopefully sell cars of whatever description you desire. A map with some indicator of wars and conflicts would be gravy too.Īll in all probably one of the better spreadsheet sims out there with fun car sliders. Adding opponents seems to slow down the game in multiple ways and many feel simply not more challenging but more tedious. Why were my contracts denied? Who did they go with? Can I compare my product? Why do I care new competition has started selling trucks in Juno Alaska? I suppose some features are designed around not being a super mega international corp, but who honestly plays 100 years as a sports car only manufacturer? Maybe I need to tic up the difficulty for some of these features but honestly outside of the major wars very little bankrupts your business. However, rarely will you pick up a notification or article with anything insightful. Most of the text can be fun to read and look at. At times it is definitely tedious and frequently the game overproduces information for the player.

Definitely needs a second iteration eventually with perhaps a little more time spent on UI innovation.

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