'SimCity' arrives on the iPhone

To the stable of games for the iPhone, you can now add the legendary SimCity.

Electronic Arts' city-building game, priced at $9.99, is now available for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Users can take advantage of the touch-screen technology to design and construct their vision of an urban landscape.

SimCity on the iPhone.

(Credit: EA Mobile, via Apple's App Store)

MG Siegler at VentureBeat, who's had a chance to play with the game for a while, waxed enthusiastic about the touch-screen qualities and more--"SimCity is a very impressive game on the iPhone"--but warned of some lingering bugs from the game's demo period:

While some of those issues have been fixed--the game runs fairly snappy now, when loaded--I'm experiencing the game crashing and a slowdown in actions like zooming. From the early reviews I'm seeing on SimCity's App Store page, I'm not alone in experiencing this.

And unfortunately, loading even the more bare-bones previously saved city takes a long time (I'm talking minutes). Maybe for some, that will just add to the nostalgic experience--I remember this was an issue on my old PC back in the day as well. For others, it'll be annoying.

[sanenazok]

Too bad they used the graphics from Sim City 3000, guess it's the best that could be done on the platform.

[paulsecic]

Isn't the Iphone a bit small for a game like Sim anything?

[D3vildog699]

I think THE SIMS 2 could be done, i have it on my Behold, and its fun, but needs a bigger screen... bam iphone.. i hate the iphone, but i see that it would work better on it than my behold.

[Andres_A]

I would think Sim City 4 would be way too big of a game for the app store, 3000 was a good choice to make for the iphone, and it also is easier to use than 4 on PC in my opinion since I have both.

[infernalman7]

Tried it... well it doesn't keep me occupied like Fieldrunners does.

[moretroops]

Fieldrunners is about to get me fired from my job. Reedik.

[sting7k]

I'm not even sure they should have used Sim City 3000, maybe 2000 would run better on the iPhone. Still I'll probably give it a spin, I think 3000 was my favorite one and I still play it on my PC from time to time when I'm bored of other games.

[play7]

What worse is a game called Second Life........THat is being played on Cellphones ( or said to be world wide ) .But But really its not possible or true. The "SIMS" atleast has some possiblities unliek the Linden Lab BS

[zcollvee]

Sim City is probably the best time waster I've seen around. I could play it for hours!
And now that its on the ipod/iphone it would be even better.

[h--dawg]

I'd love for them to make a Sims game.

[Waam]

9.99 is totally an impulse buy for a quality name title like Sim City.

[hellmalm]

Simcity is super on the iPhone, I think it's even better then on a regular computer.
Have had it since it was released and I really love it.

[someguynamedbob]

sim city 3000 kicked ass!