iPhone SimCity almost fully built

Details of the metropolis maker trickle out

| Nov 20, 2008

The lucky devils over at VentureBeat recently got a hands-on with EA's hot iPhone property, SimCity, saying the almost complete city-building simulator resembles the PC's SimCity 3000 game quite closely – with a few vital iPhone tweaks to improve the handheld experience.

Multi-touch is apparently used for zooming in and out of your city, with touch controls providing the rest of the architectural reins. Details are otherwise still pretty thin on the ground, though VentureBeat's report at least puts our minds at ease by confirming we'll be seeing a faithful representation of SimCity on our iPhone's.

Slated for a December release, the report closes by pointing out that the dev team were still working on reducing some pretty extensive loading times – otherwise it seems ready to go. Eep!

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