

Instead of building a city that expands outward, you'll be crafting cities within strictly limited space-building taller and denser, instead of wider, once you've filled up the territory.

Even with servers that work and expanded options, the game is still a fundamental departure from previous titles in the series. But half a year later, it’s a great time for new players to jump into the game-now that the technical kinks are worked out and the new Cities of Tomorrow expansion, the latest installment of the famed city-building franchise, is finally ready for primetime.

Like a lot of people, I held off on the new SimCity when I heard about the server problems it had at launch.
