If you long to be mayor of your own city a new game for iPhone and iPod Touch will help fulfil your dream, virtually speaking.
Developed by G5 Entertainment, Virtual City is a city simulator is a similar mould to that of Sim City and Transport Tycoon, but less complex.
Players can choose to play single missions or more engaging long-term campaigns across an extensive sandbox environment.
In Virtual City, players build and develop the city of their dreams, whether suburban utopia or bustling metropolis.
Virtual City players begin by choosing from dozens of residential homes and industrial buildings, and the possibilities from there are limitless.
As their cities grow, players can produce and transport goods, create mass-transit systems, and entertain their city's residents with parks, cinemas, stadiums and events.
In order to keep the city safe and its citizens happy and healthy, basic services like health care, public safety, waste collection and recycling must be planned and administered.
Virtual City is said to combine a robust city-building simulation with intuitive, easy-to-understand controls.
First-time players will apparently have no trouble learning how to play, while more experienced gamers will find enough depth and variation to keep them enthralled for hours.
Trade with neighboring cities and accomplish the construction of landmark buildings like marina, train depot and spaceship launch pad.
Help troubled cities get back to prosperity, deal with economic downturn, population crisis, and consequences of natural disasters.
Achieve balance between key parameters of your success: Time, income, environment, population and happiness.
Play more than 50 challenging levels, and unleash your inner mayor in free play mode on five large sandbox maps.
Virtual City should be appearing soon on iPhone and iPod Touch with an iPad version to follow later.
EA Mobile is set to release Sim City Deluxe soon as well so competition in the mayor sim genre could be very hot this summer, giving strategy and tycoon game fans plenty to enjoy.
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