Customer Ratings & Reviews

Good game could be better once they work out some of the glitches.

It's a good game and replaces the simcity we all use to play and love, just still has some bugs with the servers from time to time

Great city builder. Love the curvey roads. Wish I could connect to all cities in the region. It is a little buggy.

Good game now that you can play off line single player mode.

It is ok. it is not really what i had expected it to be but i still like it and would still play it.

My son got his early birthday present. He can't stop playing it.

I've been a big Sim's fan for a long time. This SimCity is not much of a challenge, the game guides you in everything you need to do, making the game not much of a challenge.

This games has kept my daughter's attention. Provides a perfect mix for her creativity.

Great game for those who enjoyed the original Sim City.

this game was bought for grandson and he likes it a lot

Overall good game classic sim city would be better with a sigle player offline though

you need to download multiple gigabytes just to start playing the game

Pretty good. Not like the classics but it is better now.

very complex and time consuming to play but fun at the same time.

Great idea. But gets to be boring real quick. But I liked it.

I probably would better enjoy the game if it did not freeze.

Bought this for our 12 year old daughter and she LOVES it.

My son likes building buildings to his utopia world

For $60, it's hard to recommend this game. I'd say it's worth $40. The internet requirement has been well-documented, but I will say that I had no problems connecting to the servers, downloading the updates, and then playing the game. The North American servers were all busy, but there are three European servers and an Oceania server and they were all available. When you start the game, you are forced to go through the Tutorial - absolutely no way to skip it. Initially, my game froze in the Tutorial, but I restarted and changed servers and then it worked fine. It is ridiculous that the Tutorial is required before you can play the game. Forced internet connection is one thing. A forced tutorial is overbearing and unnecessary. Gameplay is fun and definitely challenging. It's hard to hit the sweet spot with zoning; you need Residential, Commercial and Industrial in just the right proportions to be profitable. But when you hit the sweet spot, it's fantastic. Watching your decisions play out in real time is pretty great also. Placing that first power plant and watching the power zap its way to your buildings is awesome. The game lacks the ability to build a true multi-zone metropolis, though, because... The cities are just absurdly small. It really is shameful. I believe this is a temporary issue, and larger plots will be available eventually. But it absolutely takes away from the fun and realism of the game to have cities this small. It's disconcerting when you realize that after 20 seconds of zoning for industrial, you zoned nearly half the city. I think SimCity 4 fans will have a hard time adjusting to the incredibly small city sizes. The regions seem pretty normal-sized to me, except there is an inordinate amount of space between cities. Have to hope that space is eventually usable. Now, I have to mention that one of the reasons for the small cities is because the game is a true simulation - meaning, everything that you see happening is actually happening. You can follow individual people and vehicles around and they go through a normal day, going to work, going shopping, going to the park, etc. This has not been done in a city building game before and I'm excited about the possibilities for the future. But for now, I am counting the minutes until they release/unlock larger cities. Overall: recommended for city building fans who have extra money to spend. I think SimCity purists will almost certainly be turned off by the amazingly small cities, and I really cannot see spending the full $60 on this game.

Great game for hours of fun. No issues with installation windows 7