I have the disturbing and sad feeling that this game will be closer to "sim city societies 2" than "sim city 5"... plus it looks like an improved facebook game (glass engine apart)...
I'd like maxis to lean towards macromanagement, but it looks like they are still into micromanagement (sims style)...
Being able to customize every public building (or even casinos), but not being able to build regional networks (highways, trains), is frustrating to me... that's something the modding community already had... here in simtropolis you can find every building you possibly want... there's no need to add a limited building modding feature ingame...
I don't feel (hoping I'm wrong here) that this new sim city will add a lot to already existing games like cities XL (in terms of city simulation)... I'll have to wait for reviews, but definitely I'm not pre-ordering this game..
