SimCity Creator

• Residential (yellow): Housing for Sims to live in. This zone's buildings include houses for low-density zones and apartment towers and skyscrapers for higher-density zones.
• Commercial (blue): Where stores and office buildings are located. Sims can work in stores and offices, and the commerce can be taxed. Offices are usually built on commercial medium or high density zones. Hotels and restaurants are sometimes built as well.
• Industrial (red): Contains the factories and warehouses. Sims may work here but it lowers land values and pollutes the air.

Transportation

Zones must be connected by lines of transportation. Some of the types of transportation choices for a city include roads and highways.

Roads and streets are basic lines of transportation that cars, buses and trucks drive on. They can be either curved or straight.

They can lead into each other to form crossroads or roundabouts. Heavy congestion can cause pollution above the affected road.

Highways are 4-lane roads. Cars travel faster on highways than roads or streets. However, they need on-ramps to function.

The player cannot build streets over rivers. However, building a road or railway over a river automatically creates a bridge.

Railways are what trains run on. However, they require train stations to work although they lower traffic congestion.

Subways are underground railways so they do not require buildings to be bulldozed, which makes it a more sensible choice for dense cities. They are more expensive to build than ordinary railways, about 8 in-game currency per tile, however, making it more sensible not to use them to link parts of your city that are far away from each other and do not have buildings in between them.

Subway stations are also smaller than train stations, occupying a 1x1 square rather than a 3x3 square for regular stations.

Subway stations are also easier to link to rails than ordinary railway stations.

Seaports are where boats stay. Seaports increase industrial demand.

Airports are where planes land.

If an airport is built the player will see planes, helicopter, airships and hot air balloons flying above their city, especially near the airport.

Airports also raise commercial demand and enable several flight missions to happen.

Energy and Climate

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Development

The game was first announced on February 12, 2008, by Sims label president Nancy Smith along with other upcoming EA Sim titles including SimAnimals, MySims Kingdom, and MySims Party.^[3]

Reception

The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[4] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one seven, one eight, one seven, and one six for a total of 28 out of 40.^[5]

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