The new SimCity wasn't really an option, so I decided I'll spend my city-building game time with Tropico 4 this year. While the game is awesome ( and you should totally play it ) I can't wrap my head arround how much they lie in the screenshot. I mean, it's crazy! It's... It's. I don't know, I cannot believe it. So here are a couple of examples.

This is Tropico 3, let me take you through this image.

• That type of road doesn't even exist in the game, not in Tropico 3 nor Tropico 4.
• Road lights? Electricity posts? Nah, don't exist.
• Parked cars next to buildings? No, don't exist.
• Cars appear only on the roads. As you can see the taxi and another car are way in the small roads in town, cars doesn't do that in Tropico.

This is Tropico 4, and once again, a bunch of lies.

• Cars never park on the streets, once again.
• You see the huge paved area? That's not even possible to create in the game.

It might not seem like much, but these are stuff that makes the game look way better then it actually looks. You cannot decide where you want to put cobblestone nor grass. This makes you town look like a zebra at spots. Road lights? Nah, that would be amazing but they are nowhere.

So yeah, it's a shame because I'd play a hell of a lot more of this game if you had as much control over your city as they are letting you believe in the screenshots.