Relaxing fun, aimed at casual gamers.
This game is not meant to be a Hard, time intensive, city simulation. It is meant for a market of more relaxing pace, easy going, pick up and play right away type game, AKA what my wife likes playing. I enjoy it for the fact that the game is light hearted and simple. Some days I just don't want to micro manage everthing. That said lets get to the game.
It is visually a fantastic game, sound is out standing. You can zoom in and angle just about any direction. Sound cues are through out that help give you an idea that something is about to happen. Granted there have been issues with crashing but from my point after the patches have come down the pipe have fixed them. Though I think that when it hiccups now and again it isn't the game but my computer acting up again. The game play itself is light hearted and focuses more on keeping the city happy or content. Meaning you have to place certain buidlings within an area to keep from having the workers go on a riot. The games free style is ok but you can never really run out of money, unless there is a setting that lets you have maintenance cost like that which you have in the scenarios. The scenarios are actually quite challenging and can be at times frustrating. But over all add a lot of life to a game, it keeps track of how many days it actually took you to complete the goal. So you can go back and try to beat your old time. (hey I still make up my own challenges why playing halo and halo 2)
Over all this was a good game intended to get a foot hold into an untapped market, the casual gamer. Lots of companies are seeing this market as the next cash flow to keep them going and in some cases allow for more R&D to make the games that us Gamers want and demand. So beyond the bugs that were fixed with the patches, which I must say they fixed alot quicker than some games I have had in the past, it is a really good game to just pick up and play with out worries of time.