SimCity Creator Details Unveiled by Electronic Arts; We Build This City on Wii, DS

It's been years since a good, complex city building game has come out for the PC, but sadly, I doubt that a good one will come out for at least another 3 years. Simcity 1 was good, simcity 2 was more complex, and a lot of fun, simcity 3 was even better, more complex and more options as to how to build a city, simcity 4 was incredibly complex, but kept me playing for years because there were so many things to learn after you had thought you had already mastered everything. There were so many player made guides simply on how to manage traffic, among other things, such as hooking up cities to feed off of each others demands, a careful balance.

I still remember creating garbage city...hook that place up next door to a city, then send all your trash there, and never go back to it because it will never get out of debt(I think it took only 4-6 game years for it to reach 100k debt, where you have to restart the city), and has a 0 percent chance of being profitable, but damn does it help garbage in all of your other cities.

Also, WTF happened to the advertised fog for simcity 4? Anyone else remember a few of those advertisements they made, back in the day of Radeon 9800 pros and Geforce 5800's?(it still pisses me off how on the old radeon cards, when moving, the buildings disappeared)

Also, anyone notice how the game still runs like ass on current computers? Someone really needs to make a nice multithreading mod for this game, as it would really benefit from it...a graphical overhaul would be nice as well, but first thing first. And optimization for newer cards wouldn't hurt as well, though the CPU is the BIG bottleneck in this game. (my x2 4800+, 2GB of ram, and 2900XT are sad)

Curved roads!? I won't hear of it!

Simplifying Sim City is contrary to the reason why it was a good series in the first place. SC4 was on the right path, but it seems like anything after is doing it completely wrong. I'm fucking sick of EA taking a good series and making it accessible to 'everyone. What happened to developers making a game the way they wanted it to be made? The good old days were when the devs didn't give a shit about what the crowd wanted, and just made something they had a vision of without a bunch of idiots telling them how it should be done.

Someone needs to combine Sim City and Grand Theft Auto so you can build a cool city layout and then drive around in it like a homicidal maniac.

Ive been playing some SimCity 4 lately and trying to find a big packaged file with new buildings in it but all I see are individual ones and a bunch with crazy functions like free money that i dont want. Anyone got a hot tip on this problem?

Anybody remember Sim Copter that let you fly around your Sim City? Why don't they do shit like that? Would be pretty cool to make a city on the wii and transfer it to the DS or vice versa. Course it would be even cooler if the DS version was like Grand Theft Sim City where you could go around and fuck up the city you just created on the Wii.

Man, that Wii game looks terrible :(

I'm preeeeeeeeeeeetty sure curved roads have been in Sim4 thanks to the Network Addon Module.

isn't its supposed to be built on rock and roll?

I hope the DS version isn't as slow as SimCity DS is once you start building your city.