SimCity Creator is a game for the Nintendo DS. The game is ideal for those who like the tycoon and sim series of games, in this case seeing a city which you develop changes throughout the generations.
I remember getting SimCity for the Amiga over twenty years ago, and it was my favourite game ... Read review
As your city grows and your population becomes richer and wiser, you will move through ... more
one historic era to another. Your technology advances, the look of your city evolves, and the problems you face grow more and more challenging. Earn epic landmark...
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As your city grows and your population becomes richer and wiser, you will move through ... more
one historic era to another. Your technology advances, the look of your city evolves, and the problems you face grow more and more challenging. Earn epic landmark...
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Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city - constructing homes, businesses, ... more
factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. Try different city styles, including American, European, Asian, Futuristic and many others. Hire assistants and advisors with unique personalities to help you manage your town and build new neighbourhoods. When you want to check out what you've built, fly over it in your plane to see all the detail of your design. If you want to give your city a little excitement, send in a giant monster or set off an earthquake to wreck it - you built it, you can destroy it. The fate of your city and your citizens is in your hands! Build - Construct amazing cities with a wide variety of choices. Create a New York-style metropolis, a romantic European city, an exotic Asian paradise, a futuristic Cyberscape or combine them to make something truly uniqueDestroy - Lay waste to your city with a variety of epic disasters, including earthquakes, meteors, and giant monsters. Prepare for and handle unexpected crises.Create - Create your city with your Wii Remote, using it to draw curvy roads, shape the layout out your neighbourhoods, and place landmarks of your choice.Hire - Hire assistants who help you run your city and can build new neighbourhoods based on their unique personalities.Fly - When you feel like getting a closer look, get into a helicopter or airplane and fly through your city and check out all the details of your creation.
Create... Enjoy... Destroy!Build the ultimate city. Destroy it in spectacular ... more
fashion.Create amazing cities from the past, present, and future.Enjoy drawing curvy roads, shaping the city, and carving the landscape.Destroy your city with the Wii Remote: earthquakes, meteors, giant monsters, and many more epic disasters!Hire assistants who will help you build and run your city.Fly missions in your helicopter, airplane or other aircraft.
Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city - constructing homes, businesses, ... more
factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. Try different city styles, including American, European, Asian, Futuristic and many others. Hire assistants and advisors with unique personalities to help you manage your town and build new neighbourhoods. When you want to check out what you've built, fly over it in your plane to see all the detail of your design. If you want to give your city a little excitement, send in a giant monster or set off an earthquake to wreck it - you built it, you can destroy it. The fate of your city and your citizens is in your hands!Build - Construct amazing cities with a wide variety of choices. Create a New York-style metropolis, a romantic European city, an exotic Asian paradise, a futuristic Cyberscape or combine them to make something truly uniqueDestroy - Lay waste to your city with a variety of epic disasters, including earthquakes, meteors, and giant monsters. Prepare for and handle unexpected crises.Create - Create your city with your Wii Remote, using it to draw curvy roads, shape the layout out your neighbourhoods, and place landmarks of your choice.Hire - Hire assistants who help you run your city and can build new neighbourhoods based on their unique personalities.Fly - When you feel like getting a closer look, get into a helicopter or airplane and fly through your city and check out all the details of your creation.
Postage & Packaging:free Super Saver Delivery Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city - constructing homes, businesses, ... more
factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. Try different city styles, including American, European, Asian, Futuristic and many others. Hire assistants and advisors with unique personalities to help you manage your town and build new neighbourhoods. When you want to check out what you've built, fly over it in your plane to see all the detail of your design. If you want to give your city a little excitement, send in a giant monster or set off an earthquake to wreck it - you built it, you can destroy it. The fate of your city and your citizens is in your hands!Build - Construct amazing cities with a wide variety of choices. Create a New York-style metropolis, a romantic European city, an exotic Asian paradise, a futuristic Cyberscape or combine them to make something truly uniqueDestroy - Lay waste to your city with a variety of epic disasters, including earthquakes, meteors, and giant monsters. Prepare for and handle unexpected crises.Create - Create your city with your Wii Remote, using it to draw curvy roads, shape the layout out your neighbourhoods, and place landmarks of your choice.Hire - Hire assistants who help you run your city and can build new neighbourhoods based on their unique personalities.Fly - When you feel like getting a closer look, get into a helicopter or airplane and fly through your city and check out all the details of your creation.
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Advantages: Great game, working through different periods of time keeps your interest up Disadvantages: Limited by the size of the screen, sometimes a bit difficult to use
SimCity Creator is a game for the Nintendo DS. The game is ideal for those who like the tycoon and sim series of games, in this case seeing a city which you develop changes throughout the generations.
I remember getting SimCity for the Amiga over twenty years ago, and it was my favourite game for many months. A version of SimCity has been released for the DS before, but this version is less financial based and more based on building ... ...with my first efforts with SimCity on the Amiga, that the game area is too small, and I wanted to build much bigger cities. I enjoyed building my cities in this game, and watching the landmarks from each age of the game being constructed, and then lasting for many more ages whilst everything changes around them.
There are as usual lots of different measures of how well you're doing. You can see the average life expectancy of your population, ... more
SimCity Creator is a game for the Nintendo DS. The game is ideal for those who like the tycoon and sim series of games, in this case seeing a city which you develop changes throughout the generations.
I remember getting SimCity for the Amiga over twenty years ago, and it was my favourite game for many months. A version of SimCity has been released for the DS before, but this version is less financial based and more based on building through different periods.
You can choose between playing in two different ways, either playing the free play mode or the challenge mode. The free play mode lets you build your cities from any era, whilst the challenge mode gives you a storyline so that you can play cities working through the different periods of history. The challenge mode is the only to go for first, as this allows you to unlock buildings and features, which you can then play using the free play mode.
Using the challenge mode you start off in a stone age mode, and as your city gets bigger and grows in size, that's when you can move forward into playing in a new game era. There are a good selection of different areas to play, covering ancient Asia (and indeed modern Asia), the renaissance periods and the development of the United States. Watch out for the global warming maps towards the end of the game!
Game play wise, the game is easy to pick up and play. I did find, as I always did with my first efforts with SimCity on the Amiga, that the game area is too small, and I wanted to build much bigger cities. I enjoyed building my cities in this game, and watching the landmarks from each age of the game being constructed, and then lasting for many more ages whilst everything changes around them.
There are as usual lots of different measures of how well you're doing. You can see the average life expectancy of your population, as well as their education and health levels, and how safe the population feel from crime. There's always lots of options to be able to select to keep you busy whilst growing the city.
The graphics I found to be more than adequate, and I did enjoy seeing the buildings develop in their different formats through the different periods of time. Sometimes the controls were a bit difficult to use in terms of selecting the right items with the stylus to construct and so on, but this is really an unfortunate feature given the size of the Nintendo DS's screen. Given the limitations of what the programmers were working around, I think that they've done a very good job.
The music in the game isn't too bad, it does change as you progress through the game, but as with quite a few DS games, I did find it a bit repetitive after a while.
If you have multiple DS units, you can use Nintendo's wireless feature to be able to swap landscapes with friends, so you can see how others are building and developing their cities. I didn't use this option, but it seems a useful addition to the game which might add some life to it.
The game is available for just under 13 pounds from Amazon, a smaller reduction then they usually offer as the game only retails for 14.99 pounds.
Overall, I really enjoyed this game. If you enjoy the idea of building a city, this is likely to appeal. A well thought through game, limited only really for me by the size of the screen.
Product Information for "SimCity Creator (Nintendo DS)" »
Product details
Publisher
Electronic Arts (EA)
Developer
Electronic Arts (EA)
Release Date
26th September 2008
Age
7+
Genre
Simulation
Sub Genre
Management Sim
Max Number of Players
1 Player
Platform
Nintendo DS
EAN
5030942065695
Aka
Sim City Creator
Manufacturer's product description
As your city grows and your population becomes richer and wiser you will move through one historic era to another. Your technology advances the look of your city evolves and the problems you face grow more and more challenging. Earn epic landmarks to enhance your city and mark your progress into the next era. Choose your path through history and make a city for the ages.
