SimCity DS

[Dogg Thang]

Yeah, you're right about the manual. I had to give in and read it (having to read a manual is admitting defeat!). I had no idea until I opened the manual that there was an undo function. That has made all the difference.

The water pipes were in SimCity2000 but were they in 3?

[Lebowski]

picked this up form tescos for the priceley sum of 25 pounds and its not a bad little version of sim city.

if you haven't read the manual or done the tutorials you may be struggling because your probably not zooming in to the map to zone it, it's nicely mapped to the shoulder buttons so if your a bit ham fisted it helps a lot.

if you do make a mistake the undo button is sat at the bottom of the screen next to a whole host of other useful buttons so its not a big issue really.

its pretty much sim city on the move though with a few nice presentation touches and a few random mini games so if you have played a sim city game you know what to expect here

only thing i could see that was missing was the water pipe laying thing you have to do in later version

but if you do like sim city you cant really go wrong
oh yeah and it loads the maps before you start first time ive seen a loading screen on a ds game, that suprised me quite a bit.

only one save per game so a bit poor on that front as the wife quite likes sim city too

[Dogg Thang]

Just bought this about 20 minutes ago. Looks nice. Feels nice but the stylus is a bitch for placing things. I haven't yet managed to put anything where I want it. I also don't seem to be able to place one square of anything like zoning, roads or whatever. Only seems to register when I drag it out to two or more squares.

Interface seems pretty good though the way the two screens work is a little strange - you place stuff on the bottom screen on a basic colour view and it appears properly on the top screen. Haven't read the instructions yet so no idea if there's another way of doing it.

It does feel already like effort went into this so I'm hoping for better than the half-assed Theme Park port.

Edit: Forget the bit about not being able to just do one square. I was just being a tit.