When I first heard of this game, I didn’t have a lot of hopes for it, first because Monte Cristo had a fairly bad track record for games, second because no one else have been able to capture the true life of city living. Maxis Sim City have in the past done a great game job of designing the infrastructure of a city, but no one have ever did the society tension of a growing city. This, as far as I know, is the first time anyone tried to design such of thing, and unfortunately it was done fairly badly. This game just don’t seem to do anything more exciting then laying down roads, and building beat up old buildings. I’ve spent hours and hours just to get something of interest to happen, but either from bad design, or execution on my part, nothing of real interests ever happens. The graphics seem to be fairly well done, there are people walking around in the city, though there seem to be very few different types of folks, you can see blocks and blocks of the same people walking around, which is very weak in a game such as this. Tycoon City seem to have tons more different people. The sound is there but seems repetitive and not much of even that. If someone could design a game with the awesome power of city designing like Sim City, and do a better job of the social impact of living in a city with different cultures that City Life tried to accomplish in this game, that would really be something to see. Until then I will continue to play Sim City, and box this puppy up for the next rummage sale.
STOP!!! City Life IS NOT a SimCity clone! Most of the negative reviews seem to be coming from SC4 officianados and that is just not fair comparison to a game that in no way tries to resemble the HO modeling of SimCit... Read Full Review
City Life is everything Sim City 4 was not. The graphics as a total package are amazing. It offers realistic 3-D characters not 2 dimensinal paper cut outs. The game is up to date using 3-D rendering and harnesses the p... Read Full Review
