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Be a powerful mayor and build your ultimate city—constructing homes, businesses, factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. Try different city styles, including American, European, Asian, Futuristic and many others. Hire assistants and advisors with unique personalities to help you manage your town and build new neighborhoods. When you want to check out what you’ve built, fly over it in your plane to see all the detail of your design. If you want to give your city a little excitement, send in a giant monster or set off an earthquake to wreck it—you built it, you can destroy it. The fate of your city and your citizens is in your hands!






Game: SimCity Creator
Type:
Console
Producer:
Electronic Arts
Release Date:
22 September 2008
Platform: NDS & Wii


Be a powerful mayor -- create, enjoy and destroy your ultimate city. Start by zoning your city, constructing homes, businesses, factories, skyscrapers, freeways, railroads, and much more. SimCity Creator is a visually exciting experience with a completely new user interface, designed specifically for the Wii and the Wii remote. You’ll discover many ways to customize your city, including 13 city styles to explore, such as American, European and Asian themes. More city styles will be revealed, so stay tuned for more information!

You can also place a selection of more than 30 “Hero” buildings into your city to make it distinctive and momentous. Some of these iconic buildings are based on the current day, some on history and some on fantasy. The more city styles you explore, the more Hero building options you have.


For the first time, take the liberty to build transportation systems with free placement of rounded and curved roads and rail lines, taking your city to new creative and curvy heights. And get a new perspective on your cityscape from a helicopter, a jet or a propeller plane which you can use to fly over your creation. Check out what you’ve built in your aircraft of choice!

Disasters that players of SimCity always love remain an important and entertaining element in SimCity Creator. Using the Wii remote you can create earthquakes, tornados, call in destructive robots and monsters, create fires and discover many more ways to cause havoc. You created it, and now you can destroy it. With hours of fun and replayability, the fate of your city and its citizens are in your hands!


Features
  • Build – Construct amazing cities with a wide variety of choices. Create a New York-style metropolis, a romantic European city, an exotic Asian paradise, a futuristic Cyberscape or combine them to make something truly unique.
  • Destroy – Lay waste to your city with a variety of epic disasters, including earthquakes, meteors, and giant monsters. Prepare for and handle unexpected crises.
  • Create – Create your city with your Wii remote, using it to draw curvy roads, shape the layout out your neighborhoods, and place landmarks of your choice.
  • Hire – Hire assistants who help you run your city and can build new neighborhoods based on their unique personalities.
  • Fly – When you feel like getting a closer look, get into a helicopter or airplane and fly through your city and check out all the details of your creation.




Guide your city from ancient times into the future with SimCity Creator for Nintendo DS. Evolve your city through time, starting with ancient times, the middle ages, modern times, present day and the future. Four play modes are available, Challenge, Free Play, Chance Encounter and Gallery, giving options to make the game as challenging or as creative as you want. Earn epic landmarks along the way to enhance your city and mark your progress into the next era. Choose your path through history and make a city for the ages.

“SimCity Creator for the Wii and Nintendo DS brings two separate, delightful new ways to create, enjoy and destroy your own cities,” said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims Label. “On the Wii, for the first time in the SimCity franchise, you will have the ability to build curved roads and differently shaped zones allowing you to make more authentic places all utilizing the motions of the Wii remote. Employing the new city advisor system, you will be able to make the game as complex or simple as you want. On Nintendo DS, we will give you the ability to make a city develop through time and to overcome the different challenges each era of urban development presents. I know both long-time and new SimCity players will enjoy these innovative experiences in SimCity Creator starting this September!”

Features
  • Evolve – From the dawn of civilization to the future, your city will evolve through time, its growth dependant upon your decisions and achievements.
  • Make History – Experience historic times like the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution.
  • Pictures – Take pictures of your city landscape and exchange with friends by using DS wireless communication. You can see exchanged photos in the menu screen of your game.
  • Landmarks – Earn epic landmarks to enhance your city. You earn these monuments each time you progress to the next era of history.
  • Modes – Explore two modes: Challenge Mode, where you guide your city through historic ages, and Free Play, where you can create cities within any time of history.



IGN - Hands On (17 July)
GameSpot - Impressions (16 July)
GameSpot (23 June)
IGN (23 June)

 


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