[Gogan]

The game was actually playable last night, so I spent some time with it.

Overall, still disappointing. You can't create large, sprawling cities like you could in previous games. Now, each map is split into "regions", which are smaller chunks of the map, with 3-5 regions per map. Each city is independent of the others and confined to one region. You can share resources and services between each city/region, though. For example, you can buy power or water from a neighboring city, and your services like fire stations and trash collection can be shared as well. It's kinda neat in theory, but each city ends up looking rather small. To give some perspective, you only need about 2 police/fire stations to cover your entire city.

I miss building massive cities.