A nice effort at a portable Sim City game.

User Rating: 8.2 | SimCity DS DS
By drbob33 | Review Date:
Sim City is a long running franchise with tons of players. I myself have every version of the Sim City series, from Sim City- Sim City 4 and I will gladly be first in line to pick up Sim City 5. With that said, I must say that this is quite a nice effort in many respects. There are lots of graphs and information about your city and the graphics look quite a bit like Sim City 2000 (sorry GameSpot, I disagree with your comparison to 3000). City building is always fun, and it never gets old to just lay out a huge residential sector and watch people move in.

Now then, on to the problems. First and foremost, the characters that come to talk to you, the mayor, are EXTREMELY irritating. It takes no more than 1-3 minutes in between each visit from some random person asking you for stupid stuff that you have plenty of. For example, some soldier fellow asks you for more trees quite often so he can have a "more realistic training experience". This is even with having roughly 1/3 of your city covered in trees to minimize pollution. Also, your helper person is horrible at telling you what you need. For example, I had a power plant crash on one of my cities that caused my bank account to hit 0 as well as my population in a matter of seconds. That is relatively unfair if you ask me.

So, I suppose it's a horse apiece. Get this game if you can deal with some minor annoyances and you really like Sim City. Otherwise, Pass.

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