Wow, I'm really impressed! I have seldom seen a game with such a wealth of detail, so an enormous complexity and as an addictive gameplay! It's just incredible, how many details put into this game, from the countless lovingly designed buildings, about wandering through the streets people to the beautiful scenery graphics. Alone to watch the newly created border sites and the growing building on the freshly placed land - this is truly an incredible "My City is growing" in feeling! :-)) The menus are well thought out and practical, made statistics and graphs nice and helpful - even when I sorely miss one or the other graphics, for example, "Population and unemployment", which would be very useful at times ... also an overview of all public buildings would sometimes be very practical since one often much time spends these together looking at the city. A big minus is also available for the system. I play even on a Athlon XP2000 with faster graphics card - but of the right soft scrolling can never really be any question. When you change the zoom level can be set only once in a few seconds waiting time, just as during the day / night shift ... (which you can, however, turn off). I do not know how the game is running on the specified minimum computer 500MHz frankly. The frequent criticism here that there is actually no real innovations is absolutely justified! In addition to improvements to graphics, regions and user interface has not really changed all that much - on the other side we have to say that the gameplay is already very mature and nearly perfect as well. Who liked the predecessor, may blind access ... And in the end, all criticisms defiance Simcity is just a wonderful game and a lot of fun! The few criticisms weigh very weak. For all strategists and economic players SC4 is highly recommended! Allen beginners is however said that the difficulty is quite crisp ... My tip: buy! :-) (But please do not do before important exams, I have the error ... ;-))