I’m usually a big fan of retro gaming. I’m a believer in not messing with a good thing.

SimCity Creator may be the exception.

It is SimCity. That alone scores it points, SimCity is never all bad. But this tosses aside most of the advancements through more recent versions and reverts back to the original SimCity formula, not just in gameplay but also in large part in graphics. It feels dated, like something that’s been done better.

While I acknowledge that they’re trying to return the series to its original simplicity sometimes that’s not always best. Gamers are more sophisticated and expect more complexity.

I’ll withhold a final verdict until I get a chance to spend time with the full, final version, but for now it seems like another SimCity Societies and loses more ground to CitiesXL.