21st January 2004, 9:24 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:When a game is innovative, and the innovation works, it's remembered as great -- frequently greater than games that improved on it. Think Super Mario Brothers... IMO Simcity 2000 is one of those games... though the original Simcity is obviously the most innovative of the series, there wasn't really much before that to compare it to so I don't know if that counts...
A more proper analogy is to compare them to Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine, the first was innovative, the second was just an improvement of an already fun and successful concept.
SimCity was innovative, it spawned a genre. SC2K was simply an improvement, as was the case with all following SimCities.
Before anyone asks, yes, I've played SimCity 1 through 4, so my opinion is sound.
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