City Life

"Yes, Maxis could do a lot worse than ponder the example of City Life. The relative simplicity, the choice of structured or freeform play, the ability to mingle with your populace... it's all very successful. If Monte Cristo could just turn the volume up a fraction on the interesting social conflict dimension, and add a few extra building models to make skylines a bit more varied, their game would be angling for one of those strange upside-down sixes that occasionally appear at the bottom of these reviews."

"Take one look at the box and the first thing that should pop into your mind is the classic SimCity. City Life basically works the same way as SimCity in that you build a city and watch it keep growing, and eventually you have yourself a metropolis."

"City Life combines the fun of a city-building game with the challenge of a financial simulation, though it requires patience and perseverance to master."

"Overall, City Life is a very decent game with a new twist in the city building genre that will force players to think not only about efficient design, but also the social structure within that metropolis. While that aspect could have been a bit more challenging, the game as a whole does a pretty good job setting up a reasonable caricature of city living. Those gamers that are fans of city building will find a lot of fun within the City Life box if they can do without the flash and presentation they're used to in games like SimCity."