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6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Negative: 4 out of 15
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  1. JasonT.
    Oct 9, 2008
    9
    Excellent Simcity game...take your city from Caveman times through various ages, gets very challenging to keep it on top. Nice little DS game.
  2. AlexanderH.
    Oct 1, 2008
    8
    Graphics and gameplay is dumbed-down from Simcity 4, but it is still enjoyable. More thought into controls would have been nice, doesn't seem polished.
  3. EricJ.
    Oct 6, 2008
    8
    If you have always loved Simcity you will love this game! It will take you 20 mins to get use to the controls, but once that hurdle is past you can enjoy a core Simcity game with some nice extras. If you own Simicty 4 on PC, their is hardly a point to spend the $$. But if you don't, its a must buy!
  4. WilyC.
    Sep 29, 2008
    8
    DUDE! Totally reminiscent of the old SimCity days...but on the Wii! Great game for me and my son since he's on the Wii all the time. Great controls and good graphics for the Wii, love that the MySims are in there too! Rate Up!
  5. Nov 22, 2020
    4
    this game had something, but it wasn't.. that good in my opinion.

    the game doesn't really have the best graphics, but it comes the opposite for music, they have catchy music in the game itself, but jeez the graphics are horrible in the game. the game is quite difficult too, without a guide (and not using a tutorial mode, or goals mode if that's what it's called), it's literally hard
    this game had something, but it wasn't.. that good in my opinion.

    the game doesn't really have the best graphics, but it comes the opposite for music, they have catchy music in the game itself, but jeez the graphics are horrible in the game.

    the game is quite difficult too, without a guide (and not using a tutorial mode, or goals mode if that's what it's called), it's literally hard to figure out what you would have to do in the game, because growing a city in simcity creator is so much different than in the 2013 PC simcity game.

    although an engaging game, it was also a waiting simulator, which i did not enjoy, i wish you could speed it up EVEN more than just a bunch of seconds then it would go to the next day.

    and lastly, i can't with the amount of the obnoxious "An Event Occurred!" or "Level up!", it's so annoying to try to get through at the start if you're really good at building a city.
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#81 Most Discussed Wii Game of 2008
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#68 Most Shared Wii Game of 2008
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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Some games run into problems trying to be everything to everyone, but SimCity Creator suffers from the opposite affliction. It doesn’t try to be anything to anyone. Well, that’s one thing it does right.
  2. Nintendo Power
    60
    If you have a PC(or Mac), you're better off tracking down the aforementioned "SimCity 4" for a few bucks. [Nov 2008, p.101]
  3. 59
    This would have been a perfectly respectable SimCity game if the controls had been given more attention.