Did EA and Maxis even try on this one?

User Rating: 4.3 | SimCity DS DS
By kamerad | Review Date:
This game has very bad issues. The game looks great, but its just Sims City 3000 textures slapped onto the DS, but with very poor gameplay. It isn't very much fun. It is too easy, even on hard maps. The graphics are kind of less advanced sometimes than what one might see on the Super Nintendo, heck they have still pictures black lines for cars, rather than the motion black line animation used on The original Sim City for PC. Let alone afte ryou build up 1/4 of a map filled city, the game gets insanely slow, to the point you have to scroll the screen away from the city just to speed it up a bit, did I forget to mention the advicer is the most annoying thing I've seen since a Purple Dinosaur named Barnie. Though the game does have a few plus, it does look a tad better than a SNES Sim City Game or the Original PC SIm City, however it feels far less advanced in many of the key city building areas. You do get to research technology, which sadly eats up so much of you're money it kind of isn't really worth it until you get a very large city with huge income, if you're playing on a hard map. Did I forget to mention you can only build 1... 1 city? yes you heard it 1 city, can't save a second without deleting the first. Atleast SNES let you have two saved games. If you've played anything Sim City in the past decade, this game is perhaps not worth your time. I'd would of expected perhaps something similar to Sim City 2000 but it isn't even that good. For a long lasting Sim fan like myself who's perhaps played every Sim game ever made including The Sims and The Sims 2. This is by far the most disapointing Sim game ever made. Even worse than Sim Safari.

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