Sim City 2 almost as cute as My Sims

Posted Mar 19th 2008 8:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Screens, Imports

The characters in Sim City 2 (which released today in Japan) may act like robots, but they sure look adorable -- check out our gallery if you don't believe us. They also seem to have hooves for feet, which we don't understand. Would it have been that hard to give them real feet? Yet, we can totally support a game that gives cavemen glasses and distinguished looking facial hair.

The characters and the Sim City name aren't the only appealing things about Sim City 2, though. The game lets you start in ancient times (hence the caveman) and progress to the modern era. Certainly not a novel idea for a civilization sim, but one we enjoy nonetheless.

Unfortunately, this game is virtually unplayable for folks who don't read Japanese. Sim City fans, let's hope it gets localized -- and, while we're at it, let's also hope that this game is better than the first Sim City DS.

Gallery: Sim City 2 DS

Tags: ea, electronic-arts, japan, my-sims, sim, sim-city, sim-city-2

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-19-2008 @ 10:04PM

Leskeit said...

Looks like a bunch of buildings on Simon.

3-20-2008 @ 12:20AM

Ironraptor Albion said...

is it just me, or does the caveman in the gallery look an awful lot like Will Wright?

3-20-2008 @ 11:12AM

RosuNamikaze said...

i quite like that boxart :)

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