Simcitybuildit Now Available
Simcitybuildit is now available on Apple and Android Devices, and it a real show stopper when it comes to graphics and playability for a mobile game.
Simcitybuildit has great looking 3D graphics and looks to be built on the glass box engine, the same as it’s sister game Simcity, and plays similar to the PC game as well. The mobile game simultaneously simulates each agent in the game (cars, sims etc.) giving each agent a destination, cars are not purely for decoration, they actually move around your city to their destinations. Simcitybuildit also shows the player under the hood data, when selecting specific services, much like the PC game (you actually see water and power moving under the roads)
Simcitybuildit has numerous models of houses and apartment buildings, much like the PC game, giving your city a unique look. Fill your city with power plants, fire departments and more, but make sure you have enough services to run your city, or your building will catch fire, or spill out sewage. There are lots of service building, parks and factories to fill your town. .
The controls are easy to use, simply pinch to zoom in, you can also rotate 360 degrees and pan the camera up to get a birds eye view of your little city.
There are micro transactions in game, but these are optional, you do not need to purchase these to progress in the game.
Overall, though I have not had enough time to fully play with the game, it definitely is a great mobile city builder, the developers have really bought the PC game to the mobile platform.