SimCity Creator for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

Sim City has been strong for nearly two decades and has gone through many iterations. The latest, Sim City Creator for the DS is no exception.

The Premise is quite simple: build a city and make your people happy and safe. Anyone who has played Sim City before, however, knows this is not all the simple. With mass transit networks, public services, parks, zoning, and disasters, the game is quite complex. Sim City Creator (SCC) has two modes where you will be doing this: Challenge Mode and Freeplay. Challenge mode has goals for each stage of your city and allows you to unlock additional maps/time periods for Free Play. Free Play is a sandbox mode for a particular time period and is more akin to traditional Sim City.

Challenge Mode really makes the DS Sim City stand out from it's predecessors, as it makes the game MUCH more accessible. You start out with Stone Age people and can only build roads and housing. Gradually you get more buildings as needed and it steadily ramps up the difficulty. You transition to different time periods and the process starts all over again. You also get to choose how you advance. There are two medieval and three different industrial ages, changing the game slightly and adding replayability.

The controls work fairly well. I did use the undo feature a lot as the accuracy of the stylus leaves some to be desired. THe sound and music of the game is very SIm City, so if you like it there will be no problem. If not, playing without sound is easy; disasters will stop gameplay.

Overall, the game is quite good and is worth a try. IF you like SIm City, you'll love this (at least for 8-10 hours), but if you're not into city simulators you might want to look elsewhere.

In this game you come into a small town that can grow into a huge city. there are 2 ways to play,challenge or freeplay. in challenge you start from the dawn of civilation. then you move to either european renaissance or open asia age you complete all three by gaining population. then you move to the european industrial age, american prosperity age or asia development age. final you move to present day this is a tough time you have to worry about all lot but most of all pollution. use trees parks and others to overcome it. you complete those by reaching 100% in approval.in freeplay you chose from the time periods you beat in challenge chose an avalible map then build.you must over come natural disasters such as earthquakes tornadoes riots and more in both modes. build massive landmarks and amaze your sims.make your city big good and powerful.passwords can unlock more maps NOT TIME PERIODS.here is a password that helps me it makes you get 99999999 dollars you go to opitoins then go to the bottom final click on passwords and type in moneybags all CAPS.that is the review i hope helps you.this is fablenight signing off see you later