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SimCity announced for the DS in Japan

by Dave (Blogsmith, old) on Aug 30th 2006 9:25PM

Japanese gaming mag Famitsu brings word that the late great city builder SimCity is making an appearance on the DS. Called SimCity DS, this handheld version is based on the PC's SimCity 3000. The game is said to feature "full stylus-based controls, mini games and a new adviser character who helps you out when designing your city."

There will be three modes to play: Build a New City, Save the City and Sister City. It seems that the Sister City mode could possibly take advantage of Nintendo's Wi-Fi Network as you'll be able to chat with other players and trade landmarks. No other official or U.S. announcement has been made, but according to Famitsu, the game will be released sometime in the winter in Japan. We hope it doesn't take too long for it to make the jump stateside.

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Tags: DS, PC, Sim City 3000, Sim City DS, SimCity3000, SimCityDs

Reader Comments (34)

OMFG

Haha, awesome

Woh now that's cool. I was never much of a fan of the newer versions, but I might give this a try. An online mode would be pretty cool too. I wonder if you would be able to send monsters to another person's city?

/Godzilla FTW!

Can you say "System Seller"? Finally a good game that is perfect for the DS.
I hope they do it right though, Advanced Wars DS did not use touch screen control well enough, I ended up going back to the GBA style control because the touch control was too awkward.

Oooh sweet, hopefully whoevers doing development doesn't crap it up. >_>

-->"Finally a good game that is perfect for the DS."

WTH are you talking about?

Have you not played Kirby Canvas Curse?

Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh.

Oh. My. Gosh.

Freaking amazing. I've been playing Simcity since the original. This makes my top five list for games coming out.

Sim City is awesome. The SNES update of the classic was my favorite version. I hope this version of 3000 will get the Nintendo touch too.

Though I still want stylus controlled Diablo..

When's Starcraft Coming to the DS I like SimCity and its great but come on Starcraft the best RTS ever if not the best pc game ever.

I can't say that I care much for Sim City, no clear object, no action, no multiplayer. Age of empires and Settlers are more intresting, as would be Civilization, Colonization, Starcraft, C&C, ...

Just give us Civ, Civ 1 with multiplayer mode would be enough ;)

Awesome :)

@ Johan Krüger-Haglert

Actually, I think they are making a Settlers game for the DS. There's even screenshots kicking around somewhere.

SimCity = Maxis.
Maxis = Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts = Definitely going to be released in the USA, despite the lack of official announcements.

Any questions?

I agree with 10. Yay yay I love Sim city, and I've been telling the people at maxis to make a DS version for ages. I'm hoping that they have a real cool non-godzilla monster. aslo maybe some other cool nintendo based stuff, Nintendo HQ Mario strikers stadium, a mushroom kingdom embassy.

This is a sure buy if they make it like the 3000 one for me,

SimCity 3000 is one of my favorite games ever.

I can not wait to be playing this kicked back in my bed instead of hunched over my PC.

I'm 'cited.

"Arrrghhhh, random people visiting my city ... SEND OUT THE GODZILLA"

That would be so awesome if it came to the states, I would def by it.

http://www.dasutin.com

SimCity for PalmOS is probably the Palm-native game I play most ... though it's a distant second to every emulator I've got on there.

Will they have Bowser instead of Godzilla again?

-->"SimCity = Maxis.
Maxis = Electronic Arts.
Electronic Arts = Definitely going to be released in the USA, despite the lack of official announcements."

Bingo...but it is wierd that it was announced in Japan first.

Ok, so if this game comes out this side of the ocean, my life as is currently known, will be over. I won't leave my DS ever! XD

Great, I've been wanting to try out this series for a while. And this new "adviser character" should help make it more accessible to n00bs like me.
*crosses his fingers and hopes Nintendo will let them use Dr. Kawashima for the role*
*oh, and Dr. Kawashima would probably have to agree, too*

I've logged WAY too many hours into Sim City 3K, especially Unlimited. It's perfect in my eyes.

As far as "no set goals" goes, you do know about the scenarios, right? Although there's no coherant story, per se, some of the tasks were truly fun and compelling. For example, cleaning up after Chernobyl or tearing down the berlin wall and restoring the city. Plus, Unlimited supported custom scenarios, which could possibly be a Wifi funtimes.

I certainly am hoping for a tile editor.

THERE IS A FUCKING GOD.

yes. yes.

Guess what? The advisor is none other than a cartoon version of Will Wright.

Not Dr. Wright from the SNES version, but the game creator himself. Nice, huh?

Like I said on GoNintendo, I'll by anything with a chibi Will Wright in the corner telling me what to do.

Here's the GoNintendo story with an awesome scan/screen shots:

http://gonintendo.com/?p=5180

Actually, I thought the advisor would be the professor from the brain training, but I guess Wright would work.

Let's just hope it's better than the awful, awful GBA port of SimCity 2000.

AWFUL.

Just for all others to know there was German Settlers 2 announced for the DS a month or so ago.

Whoa! I need this! I need this now!

another Killer DS titles, DS ftw!

wow just wow i need this right now. i need some new great games for my DS and this look to be it.

ps. to whoever it was that said starcraft was the best pc game ever, starcraft is one of the greatest but still not as good as Alpha Centari. on that note where is alpha centari DS.

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