I honestly didn't think I'd ever play the game either after hearing so much negativity surrounding its launch. I'm very glad I found it at the thrift store, because it's been a lot of fun. I even got my wife to play the game and enjoy it, and she's never played PC games at all. We may end up trying multiplayer together, so I'll be sure to post about how that goes.

I actually haven't played any of the older SimCity games, so I'll have to pick one of those up at some point, too, so that I can compare the gameplay.

Definitely worth giving it a shot now! Thanks so much for reading the review!