SimCity Creator
Posted by | Posted in Strategy | Posted on 04-09-2010
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Product Description
Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city – constructing homes, businesses, factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. Try different city styles, including American, European, Asian, Futuristic and many others. Hire assistants and advisors with unique personalities to help you manage your town and build new neighbourhoods. When you want to check out what you’ve built, fly over it in your plane to see all the detail of your design. I… More >>
Having played Sim City on the PC a few years ago (both myself and my son) we were hoping for more of the same. I thought it was a really good game to get kids thinking about what it takes to get and keep a city running. You have to build the city infrastructure (electricity, water supply, waste disposal etc) whilst balancing your budget and keeping your population happy ! When we were out in the car once, my son (who was around 5 at the time) once asked “is this a heavy industrial zone ?” which was somewhat amusing but did prove he was learning something from the game.
This is the same basic game on the Wii platform. It therefore retains all the good, challenging and addictive elements of the game, but there are a few gripes. The graphics aren’t as clear as I would like (although we are still on a CRT) but the navigation seems particularly difficult with a Wii remote because of the fine control needed to lay out areas, make roads etc. This was not as much of problem on a PC with a mouse. It does improve with practice, but is very frustrating at first.
It is a complex game and requires some application and comprehension! Perhaps for that reason, the fact that he gets more instant gratification from other Wii games, and the difficulties with navigation, my son has only played this version once so far (he is now aged 9). The one thing that he did find instantly entertaining was the disasters option which allows wanton destruction of your city – he particularly liked the dinosaurs !
Overall, I still think it is a good game, but is does require patience and a steady hand on the Wii remote !
Rating: 4 / 5
I really enjoyed this game, prefer Simcity than the other sims games as you don’t have to keep checking on your sims to see if they need fed or toilet etc, and can get on with building a city and then have fun destorying it and starting again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Love the Sims games on Wii and this one is probably the best so far. Bit slow to get moving and it is a shame that you cannot just crack on with the cities already set up – these can’t be saved.
Really good at spending a lot of time on.
Rating: 5 / 5
I love the sims games and have played all of them but this one is pointless. You build a city and knock it down. Unless I’m missing something thats all you do.
Rating: 1 / 5