SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game

http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says...-the-dreamcast
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/f...ve-iphone-game
http://kotaku.com/5104230/simcity-iphone-impressions

SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game [IPhone Apps]

via Gizmodo
by Mark Wilson on
12/9/08

While there are plenty of apps to help you kill time on your
iPhone/iPod touch, there hasn't been a killer app to launch the system
as a powerful gaming platform. SimCity may change that.

So far, developer EA has, no pun intended, phoned it in a bit with
their iPhone apps. Neither Spore nor Tetris have been anything all
that
noteworthy, not quite living up to the iPhone's Dreamcast-level
hardware. But after Kotaku spent some time with EA's latest big
project, SimCity, they had nothing but great things to say about it.

Whatever you do, though, don't go thinking this is SimCity Lite. This
mobile version is fully featured, with pre-built cities, accountant
recommendations, water pipes, natural disasters, etc. The works.

[Pinching] in as close as you can on the 2D sprites reveals intricate
details, such a smoke emitting from towers, or shading alongside the
buildings. Overall, a really nice graphical presentation that compares
similarly to SimCity 3000.

For their full impressions, hit the links above. Otherwise wait until
SimCity's release later this month and decide for yourself.

[Kotaku]

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"iPhone 3Gold" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says...-the-dreamcast
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http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/f...ve-iphone-game
> http://kotaku.com/5104230/simcity-iphone-impressions
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> SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game [IPhone Apps]
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Nah! I'll wait for the other "every platform under the sun" game ...
Lemmings! ;-)

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 19:45:48 -0800 (PST), iPhone 3Gold
<[email protected]> wrote:

>http://gizmodo.com/5026065/sega-says...-the-dreamcast
>http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/f...ve-iphone-game
>http://kotaku.com/5104230/simcity-iphone-impressions
>
>SimCity May Be the First Must-Have iPhone Game [IPhone Apps]
>
>via Gizmodo
>by Mark Wilson on
>12/9/08
>
>While there are plenty of apps to help you kill time on your
>iPhone/iPod touch, there hasn't been a killer app to launch the system
>as a powerful gaming platform. SimCity may change that.


SimCity seems like a huge mismatch for the iPhone. It's all visual,
it's huge, and it misses out on some of the key things that make the
iPhone unique -- motion sensitivity and connection to the internet.

SimCity also favors the visual rather than audio. iPhone suffers
visually, simply because its screen is so small, but it can deliver
audio.

I would think that a multi-player game like "You Don't Know Jack"
would be better -- maybe with players competing in unusual challenges
like recognizing songs from clips being played, or racing a ball
through a labyrinth.