If you've become friends with your townsfolk-a process as simple as pestering them until they tell you to go away and then coming back five minutes later ad infinitum-you can ask them to introduce you to someone who wants to move into town and open an elementary school, but you still aren't guaranteed to find anyone before the family tells you off for not caring about their concerns and moves away. You cannot simply construct a specific type of building, but must instead rely on email petitions from prospective citizens, which all too often leads to situations in which you're unable to find, say, an elementary school for the family that has a child. They are usually upset because a hospital, police station, or something of that nature isn't close enough to where they live. Although being the only employee of the town complaint department might not sound like much fun, there's something weirdly beguiling about this game that keeps you playing despite its painfully clunky controls and repellant visuals.Īs the resident Metropolis Maker, you'll be dealing with several irate citizens at any given time. Like in its relatively obscure predecessor from 2002, the focus of the game isn't on building cities, but rather meeting and interacting with the colorful inhabitants of your cities, building working relationships with them, and addressing any complaints that they may have.

PlayStation 1 or 2?Įven though this game came out in 2007, it could easily pass as a PlayStation 1 game! This is one very rough-looking game.MetropolisMania 2 is a city management sim that borrows a number of elements from similar games such as Animal Crossing and the SimCity franchise to create a charming and inexplicably addictive experience. The controls, in general, are rather annoying, but as long as you keep your strength up you can jump from building tops and run at a fast speed. You wander around the town in the third person with a camera that is way too zoomed in and a very twitchy camera. The town building aspect in Metropolismania 2 is not as in-depth as you would think. As you progress through the game, you start to fill up your phone book and you can get new people and amenities to your town much easier. At first, it can be hard getting people to move to your town in order to open up a school, hospital, or whatever. This is a game that actually gets easier the more you play it. They will usually be complaining about something or other and it is up to you to fix it. Talking to townsfolk is what you will be doing most of the time.

I am cool with that as games like Sim City and Animal Crossing are the same. From what I played there did not seem to be any actual ending goal that the game wanted you to achieve. That is the basics of what Metropolismania 2 and that is all there really is to it.

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