Review: SimCity for the iPhone

Welcome to my fledgling city of Saillune. SimCity 3000 was the first computer game I ever bought for myself. Up until that point, I was happy with "borrowing" the games that my brothers bought and playing those. But, after a high school friend showed me SimCity 3000, I wanted it for myself.SimCity for the iPhone is pretty much a port of SimCity 3000, and the game comes across beautifully. The graphics are amazing and you can't tell the difference between playing the game on the computer or on the iPhone. When I heard that Electronic Arts was bringing SimCity to the iPhone, I quite sure what to expect. I always felt that the port of the game made for handhelds was an inferior version to the computer-based originals. Part of me wasn't quite sold on the iPhone as a gaming device.SimCity helped me change my mind.Here's a look at a breakdown of the game, what works and doesn't, and even a neat Easter Egg.Continue reading Review: SimCity for the iPhoneTUAWReview: SimCity for the iPhone originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Games Review: Gaming into shape with `Wii Fit' (AP)

AP - If someone had pulled me away from "GoldenEye 007" in the late 1990s to tell me that I'd one day be using my video game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond's Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory.