SimCity

Simply put, EA Games are a disgrace.

The game is a disaster, full of constant errors caused by server issues. Without any sort of offline option the game is stuck because WHEN the servers go down its nothing but a paperweight. EA have been voted one of the worst companies in the world, and you can see why, their desire to stop any sort of secondhand market be have 'always-on-DRM' has caused another huge failure.

Further to this, each city's size is nowhere near as big as in previous version, meaning you don't have space to build half the buildings you want to. Plus, though each city in your region can interact, only the city that your playing in continues to evolve which means the interaction is fairly pointless. And, to cap it all off, your game is saved online! Which means that if a server error occurs, you will lose all your progress.

This is barely a game at all! If you've ordered it, I recommend cancelling it.

A much anticipated game let down.

I can forgive the issues with launch day problems, and I can log on and play fine now. However I wont bother as the simulation is terrible.

As all the other reviews the actual game play is awful, the complexity of the simulation is just poor, sims just go home to the nearest house each day creating tail backs as they all pile in to the nearest neighborhood until it fills up and then moving to the next one. Even Tropico 4 (and earlier versions) manages to have people living in the same house and go to work at the same place each day.
Buses, fire trucks and other vehicles just move around randomly so they many pick up your sims one day and not another. They all move in packs, the phrase 'you wait for a bus and they all come together' is very true in Sim City.

It is a shame as the engine looks great and has the potential to be excellent, but the simplistic simulation makes it not worth playing at the moment. I wish just I hadn't bought this on launch day and paid the premium for doing so. I'm not even going to bother trying to play this for another few months, hopefully by then the game will have improved. There is a good game in here somewhere, i'm fed up with being a free beta tester for games that are released before they are any good.

Overall, had this over 2 days now and I have not been able to play once!

Seriously think twice... infact think 10 times before buying this overpriced game. - Until the server issue is fixed don't waste your money.

Can not fault amazon though, quick delivery, very efficent service... just a shame I missed out on them stopping sales of this terrible product.