If the game is unplayable, shouldn't it get a zero instead?

That means the servers and connection has problems, not the game.  Diablo had many issues out of the gate as well.  

Eurogamer Sweden gave them 100.

Someone's gotten paid.

They should be punished.  not what im saying.  Im just saying that the server it's self is not the game.  it is something that will be fixed.

Ive never even played this series so im not trying to defend them, I'm just stating that it is the server and not the game.  The game may actually be really fun when it is working, or moderately.   It is unnacceptable to release a game without having a proper online system though.

And who's fault is that? EA. Therefore if you can't even play the game it deserves a 0. I can understand the odd glitch and bug here and there but not being able to play the ENTIRE game day 1 is emberassing on EA's part.

Destructoid has my favorite review on this game.

"There is some promise for this to be a good game, but promise alone isn't enough. Even if they do manage to get their servers back online and functioning, I still know that if something goes wrong on their end I will lose all of my saved games. My cities are at the mercy of EA's servers and my Internet connection, and while there are some nice things to be found in SimCity, the need to always be online and feeling forced to play with other people ruins the experience.

I wanted to like this game, I really did. At first I started to enjoy it, but soon all I found was frustration. I can't recommend this game to anyone, and I don't want to play it anymore myself because I am afraid of seeing all my efforts lost due to server issues. It's a decent game if it worked right, but the online dependency, forced multiplayer, and DRM ruin it."

Yes, I would hope so.

But besides the online issues, and the obvious drawbacks it introduces (server issues now, connectivity requirement for what should be a single player game, a player's reliance to EA's goodwill to keep this game alive), the major design flaws break the game.

That's what I primarily meant in the "It was sooo easy" paragraph. Design decisions regarding especially regional play and connectivity between cities as well as personalisation and customization of the landscape while basic functions such as subways and highways are missing on top of a city size which is ridiculously small are all twenty steps backwards compared to SimCity 4. DRM is just the icing on the cake.

I've personally never been so disappointed about any game in my life. It's unacceptable when SimCity 4 was so near perfection.

Hopefully someone will be able to mod it. Or maybe EA realizes they screwed up and just releases a patch allowing for offline play. The two big issues it seems to me is Lot Size, and always online, if those are fixed whether be it by people cracking it and modding it, or EA. It looks like a fun game, maybe not as deep as previous ones.

The online play even seems like a fun idea to play with my friend or brother, just not forced.

I know diablo III had issues but it didn't seem near this bad.

Hopefully they add Cheetah mode, and it was just a temp fix that didn't work, because if that's removed it would break the game imo. Atleast Past Sim Cities.

Supposedly there's some working cracks now... I didn't buy it so I can't confirm

I've never really played any of the games.  Hppefully the connection issues will be fixed soon.  As far as the gameplay i cant comment about that since i know nothing about it but it does look interesting.  And this game will probably last a long time so im sure it will get better over time :)