I played the Beta for the original and hated it, the reviews came out and they were terrible. I understand this is the sequel but i can find very little said about it (This is the first topic in this game's forum). 
 
anyone played it? I'm getting a little tired of playing simcity 4.

i haven't played it but..  
 
Dalai talks about it in his blog, says it plays just like the original. they fixed some issues from the last game but it still feels too lifeless to be a city building sim. IGN also has a review up if you'd like to check that out and also a metacritic thing 
 
soo judging from all of that, it doesn't seem too great if you didn't like the first one. 

It's not really a sequel, they just finished making the first game and put it out again.  I played the fuck out of the beta first time around, got some pretty rad screenshots around somewhere.

Its a pretty easy game where you can pretty much lay the foundation of building skyscrapers everywhere with no problems. Game is also very unoptimized since it only uses a single freaking core, so it starts to lag at around the 100,000th population unless you have a uber single core/CPU in general.

" Its a pretty easy game where you can pretty much lay the foundation of building skyscrapers everywhere with no problems. Game is also very unoptimized since it only uses a single freaking core, so it starts to lag at around the 100,000th population unless you have a uber single core/CPU in general. "

" @Meteora said:

" Its a pretty easy game where you can pretty much lay the foundation of building skyscrapers everywhere with no problems. Game is also very unoptimized since it only uses a single freaking core, so it starts to lag at around the 100,000th population unless you have a uber single core/CPU in general. "

okay i'm un-sold. Someone found a studio and make simcity 4-2. "

Hmm, yeah simcity 4 still sounds like the top city building game. Such a shame there won't be another from Will Wright :(
 
His last game should've been simcity 5 at maxis, not that atrocious, broken spore game.

" I played the Beta for the original and hated it, the reviews came out and they were terrible. I understand this is the sequel but i can find very little said about it (This is the first topic in this game's forum).  anyone played it? I'm getting a little tired of playing simcity 4. "

It's mediocre. In terms of city building it's pretty damn good, the tools it has at it's disposal are amazing. The free form way you can layout blocks of buildings is pretty amazing. But the UI is just bad. Terrible, even. There are no less then 20 buttons on the right of the screen to show very important things, as well as a huge amount of stuff at the top.
 
For me the became unplayable when the age old problem of traffic occurred. How do I check where the traffic is? Poor placed menu's! : D Sim City 4 had a little box where you ticked what you wanted to colour your city. This game has a different menu and sub menu you need to go into every time you want to do it. Nothing is obvious, everything is hidden somewhere out of sight.