An opportunity ruined.
I love city building games and I thought this was to be Sim City 4 but in New York, now I regret buying the game and not trying the demo first.
The graphics and sound are fine but everything else let's the game down; the game lack's substance, after buying a few buildings what is there left to do? The games wants players to upgrade individual buildings and cater for the citizens but also brags building up an entire New York. Surely you have to remove the internal management of tiny shops when dealing with the health of a whole metropolis.
After playing it twice you'll run out of patience for (what I found was) a poor camera system. A great opportunity for an excellent game but it was wasted.