Well, their lazy Roman asses obviously didn't have Sim City 4 . Oh wait. Come to think of it, we're the lazy ones, sitting on our butts in front of our computers. The Romans were the ones who worked really hard building all those aqueducts.

Classic city building fun; More realistic economic model; Incremental tax brackets; Intricate detail; Good interface

Chugs when there's too much going on; Still some issues and bugs; Multiplayer; where art thou

This is a good thing - we couldn't have asked for much more than has been delivered, and I doubt Maxis could have done much more with a formula that they've improved upon time and again.

After sitting behind the mayor's desk for a few days, I slowly began to realize why his/her duties are so draining and stressful. A good mayor relies on a number of qualities: his astuteness, political and economic sense, business skills, and naturally good planning (none of which I possess by the...

The improved interface, which makes things radically easier; The enhanced visuals - the developers strove to incorporate an amazing amount of details in the districts of your very own metropolis; Visually, the new engine takes the franchise to a new level; Excellent sounds.

Zooming in and out may take a long time to load because the screen is overburdened with stuff like dense traffic; passersby; and other activities in the city

Maxis, the mighty "King of the Sims", have created many games, starting with Sim City, they moved into more obscure games like Sim Life and Sim Earth, then they went quiet. For about three or four years they lay there, like a time bomb waiting to go off.

Sim City 4 Review...

New gameplay or rewashed concepts, polished graphics or over-rated hype? I'll be telling you about all that and more, right from Maxis's latest installment in the ever popular SimCity franchise.

I've played Simcity ever since the Amiga days when you had blocks of zones on a top down view with cars being depicted by black blocks driving through the streets. The Simcity series has come a long way since then and Maxis's latest effort, , is a gorgeous display of cityscape with good gameplay in...

Maxis and EA Games have released Sim City 4, the updated version of its hugely successful Sim City series. I will now go over the basics of Sim City game play just in case you've been in a cave the last decade or so. In Sim City 4 you are the mayor/city planner.

Maxis' latest creation is everything SimCity 3000 was meant to be.

For many years, Maxis has simulated just about every single facit of life. From the smallest ant, to shaping an entire planet and just about everything in between, it has largely defined the entire 'Sim' genre.