Product Description

Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city - constructing homes, businesses, 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 unique
• Destroy - 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1322 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-10-03
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Customer Reviews

Requires patience and a steady hand
Having played Sim City on the PC a few years ago (both myself and my son) we were hoping for more of the same. I thought it was a really good game to get kids thinking about what it takes to get and keep a city running. You have to build the city infrastructure (electricity, water supply, waste disposal etc) whilst balancing your budget and keeping your population happy ! When we were out in the car once, my son (who was around 5 at the time) once asked "is this a heavy industrial zone ?" which was somewhat amusing but did prove he was learning something from the game.

This is the same basic game on the Wii platform. It therefore retains all the good, challenging and addictive elements of the game, but there are a few gripes. The graphics aren't as clear as I would like (although we are still on a CRT) but the navigation seems particularly difficult with a Wii remote because of the fine control needed to lay out areas, make roads etc. This was not as much of problem on a PC with a mouse. It does improve with practice, but is very frustrating at first.

It is a complex game and requires some application and comprehension! Perhaps for that reason, the fact that he gets more instant gratification from other Wii games, and the difficulties with navigation, my son has only played this version once so far (he is now aged 9). The one thing that he did find instantly entertaining was the disasters option which allows wanton destruction of your city - he particularly liked the dinosaurs !

Overall, I still think it is a good game, but is does require patience and a steady hand on the Wii remote !

Have fun building
I really enjoyed this game, prefer Simcity than the other sims games as you don't have to keep checking on your sims to see if they need fed or toilet etc, and can get on with building a city and then have fun destorying it and starting again.

great way of wasting time
Love the Sims games on Wii and this one is probably the best so far. Bit slow to get moving and it is a shame that you cannot just crack on with the cities already set up - these can't be saved.
Really good at spending a lot of time on.