Upon booting up the game the first thing I noticed was that the GUI or Graphical User Interface looked fairly good (intiail view), but not polished. Though I might have been a pretty hard critic I really hoped for the best, I hoped this 'beta' would change my mind and I could pre order the game post haste. I was fairly excited to get into the 'Beta'. We've come a long way in technology in the last 10 years, surely a new version of Sim City 4 could be quite an experience on todays hardware. Perhaps something where SC4 left off, a newer cleaner version of SC4 with more options than the last and an upgraded visual experience. Like many of us I still hoped for a revival of Sim City. When Societys came out I got the feeling that the people who were a core part of Sim City in the old days were long gone and the game was dead. I played all of the sim games from Sim Ant to Sim City and have purchased and played every single version of SC ever made like a lot of us here. I've been playing Sims games since the 80s, I'm in my 30s now. I had a fairly negative outlook on the game to say the least going in. I've also been vocal about city size and other features being lacking.

If you've read my posts you would have seen I made comments about how this game feels more catered to younger kids, soccer moms, FB game players and the like. I've been a pretty big critic of the game here on the forums. Since I just finished playing 2 games via the Beta (more like demo) and thought I would share my thoughts.

Strange things in simtown