With education, entertainment, health, emergencies, power, crime and a huge range of other factors to consider, a typical game of SimCity DS quickly escalates into a frantic battle to maintain every aspect of your city. An efficient road network for example, will of course produce more pollution, meaning you have to monitor the whereabouts of your green spaces and position of your residential estates, to keep people moving in and your populous contented. Like a tower block of playing cards, every single element of your city supports every other, meaning all your time is spent balancing and adjusting your municipality to prevent its collapse. Starting out by laying down a power grid and network of roads, from the game’s outset everything you do is geared towards expanding your populous, revenue and size of your bustling community. Of course there is far more depth here, but there is little doubt you will become attached to your city, which, despite having a heart made of charts and statistics, manages to convey both personality and individuality.Īt the core of the game is the building process, which is constantly affected by the needs of your city’s inhabitants. In fact, it is not unreasonable to draw comparisons with the likes of Nintendogs. And, just as with the game’s forefathers, you get to watch over every moment, giving you the feeling that you are raising a pet.
As it heaves and grows, ebbing and flowing through periods of prosperity and destitution, it blossoms from a grotty wasteland into a thriving urban paradise. The other secret of SimCity DS’ success is the way that the city you create unfolds around you. Thankfully SimCity DS keeps up this tradition, and despite a well-crafted and sizeable tutorial, there is no doubt that even without instruction you would quickly discover the intricacies of this improbably involving game. This is largely because of the way they translate the confounding world of governing a city from a quagmire of numbers and data into representational graphs and symbols with an immediacy that lets a complete novice dive quickly into the role of being Mayor of a fledgling metropolis. For those of you who haven’t yet enjoyed a SimCity game, it is worth knowing that despite concentrating on the likes of taxes, public transport efficiency and of course construction, the SimCity games have always been instinctive, exciting and strangely addictive. SimCity DS is here to buck that trend, with EA bringing what many people consider to be the seminal god game to the DS for the first time.
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While The DS’ back-catalogue is rife with games that make innovative or novel use of the handheld’s touch screen, there’s actually a surprising lack of titles that use the stylus input in the most obvious way possible, essentially turning it into a mouse for the portable games machine.
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