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Since the iPhone appears to be grabbing a variety of interesting games, I thought I'd throw another thread up for Sim City.
I was hesitant to wade into the Sim City portable pool after being burned by Sim City DS. To put my views briefly: I was a big, big fan of the original for the C64, the SNES edition, SC2000 (SCURK extended my time with the game tremendously), and I wasn't able to spend as much time with 3000 as I would've liked (and I dabbled with the related SimAnt, A-Train and SimTower). I had to skip 4 because I didn't have a PC I thought would really handle it at the time (and it would've been a major distraction in law school). I was happy to hear about SimCity DS, but the gameplay was just horrible --property values didn't follow the logic of previous games, there were unexplained aura issues, the lame petitioners...as a fanatic of the other games I was very, very disappointed with DS, and I know I wasn't the only one.
Well, since I picked up the Katamari game, I couldn't resist trying this... so far its actually pretty good. It plays a lot more like SimCity 2000 than I expected --the graphics are a mix of 2000 and 3000. The touch screen control is actually a lot easier to use than I expected --granted, a mouse is much faster, but I didn't find it bad to control things. I think anyone who likes Sim City will like this.
They're currently on v1.3 (updates are free), and this has apparently made the game much more stable (it hadn't crashed on me, but I hadn't had a major playing session yet).
Anyone else try it?
I was hesitant to wade into the Sim City portable pool after being burned by Sim City DS. To put my views briefly: I was a big, big fan of the original for the C64, the SNES edition, SC2000 (SCURK extended my time with the game tremendously), and I wasn't able to spend as much time with 3000 as I would've liked (and I dabbled with the related SimAnt, A-Train and SimTower). I had to skip 4 because I didn't have a PC I thought would really handle it at the time (and it would've been a major distraction in law school). I was happy to hear about SimCity DS, but the gameplay was just horrible --property values didn't follow the logic of previous games, there were unexplained aura issues, the lame petitioners...as a fanatic of the other games I was very, very disappointed with DS, and I know I wasn't the only one.
Well, since I picked up the Katamari game, I couldn't resist trying this... so far its actually pretty good. It plays a lot more like SimCity 2000 than I expected --the graphics are a mix of 2000 and 3000. The touch screen control is actually a lot easier to use than I expected --granted, a mouse is much faster, but I didn't find it bad to control things. I think anyone who likes Sim City will like this.
They're currently on v1.3 (updates are free), and this has apparently made the game much more stable (it hadn't crashed on me, but I hadn't had a major playing session yet).
Anyone else try it?