The battlefield in your back garden that was SimAnt.
wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week: everyone laughed about Goat Simulator, but as SimCity creator Will Wright once proved, not all animals have such a fun time of it.
SimAnt is easily the oddest of Maxis' simulation games, but hands-down the best remembered of most of the ones people didn't play. SimLife and SimEarth were about as friendly as a rhino with toothache halfway through an unsatisfying speed-dating evening, while SimHealth—to give it its full title,"They Made SimHealth?" is less a game than the slow torture of all things fun.
The early game is essentially a rush to get food from elsewhere on the map before the other nest has a chance to outgrow you, though there are options. Killing their queen is a perfectly valid tactic, and you can gather up an army, race right across and seize victory pretty early on. For the most part though, regular strategy rules apply, just on a much, much, much smaller scale. You can lay trails across the map that act as alarms, give orders, pick up boulders and lay defences.
You can also jump between squares in the garden to get closer and closer to ultimate victory; infesting the house and declaring it a free state for ant-kind. In the sequel, your ants would have stood on each others' shoulders, donned a trench coat and fedora, and tried to get by in a society that didn't understand them, or understand why it suddenly felt very itchy after shaking hands.the game.
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