If your a fan of the series, you're not a fan of this. Look! A little face! ---> (0_0*)
1. Too simple
Yes, this version is too simple. Although it might look more complicated with the introduction of diffrent types of cities, its been stripped down to a fomulatic core. You have these enegries that you city runs on, Authority, Enlightenment, Creativity, Capitalism and Labor. All you have to do is keep these energies balanced, that was easy. And not only that, but it seems that income isn't a big deal as it used to be in the other versions of the game. You no longer are trying to find a way to fund a police station, raise the tax level without angering your citizens and among other things and still make a profit, nope, instead all your income comes businesses, and no worry about profits or anything like that.
2. Too Laggy
This one just has a habit to crap out on me. The game was so slow that i was forced to play the game in a window, turn off anti-aliasing, reduce the resolution size, and lower the video settings, just to get a mediocre frame rate. Maybe its because of the 3D textures, but I'll be damned if this game isn't slow.
In The end it seems that this game would be suited to some one who hasn't experienced SimCity, or people who have, but has done a horrible, horrible job on it.