Sim City built for DS

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 September, 2006

And on its way there in Japan.

Sim City is to become the latest in a growing line of mouse-controlled PC titles to wend its way to the Nintendo DS, according to Famitsu Weekly in Japan. It's due out there sometime this winter.

Sim City DS, as it's known, will be loosely based on Sim City 3000, although it will be tailored to the Japanese market with local settings and character designs, GameSpot tells us as it works its way through Japanese preview.

Obviously the game will use the stylus for the main control, and will introduce several new features. Along with a tutorial and an advisor character, who offers tips as you go, there'll be a new Save The City mode that throws up scenarios in pre-rolled cities, which you'll then have to overcome using your brilliant urban planning instincts.

That's on top of the traditional city-building mode, where you do Sim City's main thing - throwing together a city design using the pointer and then tending to its various needs.

Sim City DS will also take advantage of the system's wireless networking functions so that you can chat with other players and also swap landmarks.

Electronic Arts has yet to say anything about the game's fate outside Japan, but we can hope. We can also hope it fairs a bit better than some of the other PC-to-DS translations like the phenomenally dreadful Zoo Tycoon.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Tejstar #1 6 years ago

    Yet another reason to own the great handheld!

  • Talha #2 6 years ago

    Forget porting it to every platform known to man, EA - where's SimCity 5?

  • crazyhorse174 #3 6 years ago

    They should bring out the SNES version of Sim City on the DS...that was the best version of the lot!

  • bionutz #4 6 years ago

    oh please don't fuck it up! simcity2000 would probably be better though as graphics for DS than simcity3000.

  • repairmanjack #5 6 years ago

    Not as excited about this as I am Settlers DS, but this is exactly the kind of thing I want to be playing on the handheld. Every time i see one of these games announced it gives me greater hope that a Civ conversion is on the cards.

  • jonchoo #6 6 years ago

    I am still waiting for a new SimTower.

  • coojam #7 6 years ago

    SimTower was awesome. As was SimCopter.

  • PinkSpider #8 6 years ago

    'They should bring out the SNES version of Sim City on the DS...that was the best version of the lot!'
    +1

    I still occaisionly fire up a SNES emulator for this.

  • repairmanjack #9 6 years ago

    "Last version i played was on the Playstation1 and i loved it"

    Same here. Will be very happy if they get it on the PSP's compatibility list.

  • Aga #10 6 years ago

    I played both SNES version and SimCity 2000 pretty close to one another, and I preferred the 2k one the most. A bit more bigger and complex than the SNES. The mouse control probably was one of the things that made me enjoy the pc version more.

  • RedPanda #11 6 years ago

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  • GamerAddict #12 6 years ago

    Sim City DS, yes please

    Settlers DS, I would do anything to play this! I love the settlers series :)

    I'd like to see a decent footy manager game come to DS as well, the "mouse" interface would work perfectly I reckon

  • Daikon #13 6 years ago

    Sim City DS, as it's known, will be loosely based on Sim City 3000, although it will be tailored to the Japanese market with local settings and character designs

    As in no proper sewage system and a convenience store on every streetcorner? ^_^

  • faselei #14 6 years ago

    Good god the DS just KEEPS GETTING BETTER!!! :D

    Age of Empires,
    An new FF on the way,
    Opera Browser,
    MP3 Player,
    Sim City...

    And to think we were all (and don't deny it) ripping the piss out of the very idea of it a year or so ago!

    Well done Nin, well done.