Its hard being mayor (Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition (PC))

Member Name: pablosanpedro

Product:	Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition (PC)
Date:	08/06/09 (3 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: deep gameplay

Disadvantages: too hard

I was eager to play this game, as the other sim citys, being very basic, soon bored me. This game however looked like it has way more content in it and being a fan of tycoon and sim style games I thought i would love it.

There are various tutorials that you can play, which are ok at letting you know how to run your city. I did come into a problem in one tutorial, i think it was a bug and when the game told me to do something, after i had done it, the game would not acknowledge that i had done it, and i could not proceed. This was in the transport tutorial, and left me with a poor understanding of the transport system in the game.

After the tutorials i could play set scenarios or make my own city. When you begin to make your own city, you can adjust the land in many ways, which is fun, such as making huge mountains or nice rivers flowing thorugh your city.

The you have to zone the areas, residential, industrial and commercial. and the city grows from their, while adding sepcial buildings like schools and hospitals.

My main problem with this game is the difficulty, after a certain point of growth, i seem to not be able to get any further, as it all gets too demanding. this often leads me to starting a new city and it gets boring quick.

Summary: ok if you can handle the pressure of being a mayor!