SimCity Creator wasn’t on my radar before seeing a demo from the development team, after which I was fairly excited for the game. I grew up playing SimCity games on the PC and spent countless hours in SimCity 3000 making and destroying all kinda of cities. The Wii seems to be a good fit for this style of game, but the implementation here in SimCity Creator just doesn’t hold up to the game’s legacy and even the demo I saw from the developers.

Graphically, SimCity Creator looks decent. It’s a Wii title, so 480p is the best it can do. You’ll see jaggies on buildings, which is to be expected on the platform. Characters on screen are plucked from last year’s MySims game, so you’ll easily recognize some of them if you played the title. If not, they provide some decent eye candy as you go through Tutorials, etc. I would have liked to see a higher level of zoom to get closer to the action in your city, especially with the helicopter and plane flying you can do in the game. On the sound front, the background music is okay, but gets repetitive after a while. It would have been nice if the game had a bit more to hear.

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