SimCity Deluxe
By Christopher Healy,
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Updated classic urban-building sim shines as an app.
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SIMCITY DELUXE takes what was already a very good mobile app and fixes almost anything that you might have had a complaint about. The graphics are better, the buttons are bigger, zooming and scanning across the large playing area are much easier to do, etc. At the heart, the gameplay is the same -- you build and run a city, dealing with the needs of its citizens as well as various natural hurdles the Earth throws in your direciton -- but there are many more options and features to be tried here. One neat new addition lets you try to recreate famous cities from world history, including one with an Ancient Egyptian theme, where you'll be building pyramids instead of skyscrapers. Seasons will also change now, and bring new challenges with them. Mission-based play -- in which you might have to prep your city to host an Olympics-sized sporting event or guide your citizens through surviving a heat wave -- provides plenty of reason to play over and over again.
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- Devices: iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android , Kindle Fire
- Release date: July 29, 2010
- Category: Simulation Games
- Publisher: EA
- Version: 1.0.0
- Minimum software requirements: iOS 3.0 or later; Android 2.3.3 and up
- Last updated: July 13, 2020
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