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.
https://gizmodo.com/sega-says-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast-5026065
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 link. Otherwise wait until SimCity’s release later this month and decide for yourself. [Kotaku]
https://kotaku.com/simcity-iphone-impressions-5104230
