Agreed, I haven't been too into Sim City since the early 2000's. Sim City 2000 for the playstation was my favorite game at one time, before I became a pc man.

It's another one of those "been there, done that" sort of things. In the past decade, so many new and interesting games have been released (think how much hullabaloo was made about Age of Empires, Resident Evil 1, or Diablo 2), but everyone is fairly familiar with these things now....and most other games follow the same basic diagrams that these ground-breaking games forged.

I know I'm in the mood for something new and original, but societies doesn't look like it will deliver very much.