An homage to the greatness of Simcity 4

[A Black Falcon]

The original SimCity was a great game... then came SC2K and it blew it away, improving the game dramatically in just about every way. SC3K, after so long, was a major letdown. It added almost nothing to the game and removed a lot of great features! I really wonder what they were doing when they made that game... making pretty art distracted them too much, I think.

I think SC2K is one of the greatest sequels ever. Oh, sure, there are a lot of good sequels out there, but how often are they so dramatically better, in every conceivable way, that they make the original great game look silly in comparison? I can't think of many sequels like that (and I mean sequels as in the next game, not three games down the line).

Warcraft II does a very good job too... lots of big improvements in that game. But even there I'd say War1 is definitely closer to War2 than SC is to SC2K... Civilization II, likewise, is a absolutely brilliant sequel which improves hugely over the original... but more so than SC2K? I don't know... I really don't know. I don't think so.