In my opinion the game feels exactly the same as 2009, the menus are still broken, the performance is crap as before and it's just as useless. I feel very disappointed with this game and with Focus so far, all they did was to take a broken object and wrapped it in duct tape. Or at least that's what it feels like.
They said they optimized the game, yeah right... still 100% on one CPU thread and 0-5% GPU like before and no improvement in FPS what so ever. The memory leak is still there i think since the game gets slower the longer I'm in my city (even though I'm not building anything, just looking around and waiting).
I'm really hoping for future support though.
Sorry for this negative post, but that is my verdict
//Tobbsman