Let me put it simply, go buy ANY Sim City game and never think about this game again. STILL not enough new content.

User Rating: 5 | City Life 2008 Edition PC
Summary:
--Let me put it simply, go buy ANY Sim City game and never think about this game again. The new 2008 edition is yet, once again, better, but STILL not enough new features or content to make the game interesting. This game is a bad blend of Sim City and an overly difficult Wild Tangent strategy game. The best part of the game is the graphics; they truly are awesome for a build-your-own-city simulation and strategy game. The game is broken into two different play modes, scenario and free play. The main point is to start off a city with an extremely poor social class and bring it up to an elite metropolis. Sounds fun right? Wrong, this game has way too few features and details to be this difficult. If only City Life hadn't wasted hours of my time and left me with a migraine. Too bad that it isn't possible to utterly devastate my city to the point that Katrina victims felt good about themselves, oh wait Sim City can do that!

Key Positives:
--Fantastic Graphics for a build-your-own-city simulation and strategy game.
--Interesting way that the city will "morph" as its social class gets better.
--Good and large amount of music, however, after a while it gets a bit annoying.
--Very easy controls, probably the quickest controls out of any simulation/strategy game I have played.

Key Negative:
--Overly difficult
--Too few details and options. They tried to make a way to control the economy, but it's rather uninteresting and unhelpful.
--There is this window in the bottom right hand side, I was unsure if it was trying to help me, or if it was making fun of me, either way it seemed unhelpful and was empty half the time.
--Terrible loan system. If the system that gave you loans was an actual bank, it would be partaking in many illegal activities including: NOT allowing you to pay back loans, and continuously charging you for debt even after the final date was past. Very annoying.
--Rip-off of Sim City games
--STILL not enough new features or content to make the game interesting.

Overall Worth Buying?
Not at all, nor are the expansions. Heck, even Sim City for Super Nintendo amused me more; at least Bowser (or possible look alike) would come through your town occasionally, stirring up some trouble. As I said before, save yourself from bashing your keyboard to bits from frustration, go buy Sim City 4 or something else.