Game Setup:
This game will initially start out in a similar manner as SimLife. You are the engineer of a brand new world. What type of world is generally up to you. You are presented with various starting options, all ranging in difficulty. The options vary the initial temperature, vegitation, terrain, and moisture of the planet.

EA and Maxis sure made a big mistake with SimCity.  I had feared it was going to be a flop, but I never counted it on being such a huge flop.  For one, even tho I was involved in the beta testing, I had no clue that it used 'the cloud' to store your personal save games.   Having no option to save locally, limits playability to people who are always connected to the internet, and who have a fairly high bandwidth speed.  This is essentially a MMO for city planners.

I got the chance to participate in Simcity's closed beta program for the upcoming release of EA/Maxis's new rebirth of their product line called SimCity from the 80's and 90's.  Having always been a fan of the early incarnations of the game, I figured I would try this out.  But I also knew I would be disappointed.  I doubted in todays market that they would create a product which had the same scale and depth as the previous titles.  This was apparent in Spore, and now is repeating itself with this new franchise.