I'm cautiously optimistic, I loved the early games

Great news.

About time! Hopefully it won't suck.

jizzing pants right now!

Because of your avatar or the video?

OT: looks cool loved the last game. Too bad this is not in game

I'm sure the game will have a similar look and feel to match the video. 3000 is my favorite, but the game is dated. 4 was really good, but came out around the launch of dual cores which meant maps had to remain small to match the graphic load they were asking for. I'm pretty sure no matter what they want to do graphically, computers today will meet it. All they have to do is make it play like 3000 with a few new features.

I wonder if they will include streets and copter functionality out of the box, with a full 3D engine dropping in and driving around the city could be great.

Bah who am I kidding it's going to be DLC

very excited !
i really loved the early games
can't wait for this one i hope they make it like simcity 3000 or 4

Well, this, Tropico 4 or its sequel and civ 5 are giving me 3 very good reasons to save up for a new PC.

Things this simcity needs:

-Lots of freeway types w/ custom onramp/off ramp design.
-Road customization to the point of paths in rollercoaster tycoon. You can make a road go up/down/into the ground/etc.
-Advanced road drawing mode where you can design before you confirm building the road (see iPhone simcity)
- Upgradable roads where you can add extra lanes, carpool lanes, shoulders, etc. We already know we are getting curvy roads which is awesome.
-Intersection customization - convert from stop sign to stop light. Put in yielding right turns. Control stoplight timing, road priorities, etc. 3-5 pronged intersections if desired.
- Circle intersections of course.
- More methods of transportation: light rail, monorail, bike trails, subways, customizable subway stations, etc.
- Sim copter mode where you can fly over your city and use the megaphone. (get movin' you stupid Canadians!)
- Elections. Sort of controversial but it could be an option you turn on. Every x years... an election is run to see if you can continue playing your city. You can spend lots of money and buy off people, or you can try and get a good mayor rating... your opponent would be random but would get harder and harder as you kept playing the game.
- Park zones. For god's sakes park zones. (can't tell you how annoying placing little parks everywhere can be).
- Real time. You can slow the game down to the point where 1 hour in real life is 1 hour in the game world. Or you can speed it up so that a year goes by in a minute. Big giant slider to control this :)
- Rewind button. Hey Pushmo had it!
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- Feel free to add to this!