<Q>Considering EA's huge fat wallet, as well as their success with the Simcity games and as well as Sims games, you'd think Tilted Mill and EA would be able to come up with something better than this. I mean, this is mediocre at its finest.</Q> Well, here's what I think... They realized that there was nothing really in SimCity 4 to substantially improve on. Sure, some graphics optimization, better pathfinding etc. would be great, but they don't nearly warrant a whole new game (it'd be nice of Maxis valued its fans enough to give us such updates to SimCity4). So they did the right thing: They began to think of where ELSE we/they could go with the whole city building concept. They came up with an idea that sounded really good. Keep in mind that whether or not it's better than the original, major SimCity game isn't quite the point. They wanted to provide us with something new, something worth spending another chunk of money on. Of course, they did really poorly in their new direction. If they'd have bundled an updated SimCity 4 along with it, it would have been enough to make fans happy. Oh well.
