Having played around 20 hours, I have to say that the game has a solid foundation and definitely has potential, but it's not exactly polished yet. For a first release they did a fantastic job.
I wish they made future releases more challenging though, because in this game none of your actions really matter except for road planning. The only challenge is managing potential traffic jams. You can zone whatever you like wherever you like and the map will just fill up without problems. Coming from Sim City 4 this feels quite strange. It's a lot harder to strike balance there.
There's also a quite elaborate system of public transport built in, but it does not live up to its potential because you don't get proper feedback, especially about how people move around the city.
I'm not really thrilled about the graphics either, it's ok, but it needs a LOT more variety in the building department. Both in terms of design and sizes. All the office buildings look the same.
Overall it's a very nice game, but it would be great if it was a lot deeper than this.
I wish they made future releases more challenging though, because in this game none of your actions really matter except for road planning. The only challenge is managing potential traffic jams. You can zone whatever you like wherever you like and the map will just fill up without problems. Coming from Sim City 4 this feels quite strange. It's a lot harder to strike balance there.
There's also a quite elaborate system of public transport built in, but it does not live up to its potential because you don't get proper feedback, especially about how people move around the city.
I'm not really thrilled about the graphics either, it's ok, but it needs a LOT more variety in the building department. Both in terms of design and sizes. All the office buildings look the same.
Overall it's a very nice game, but it would be great if it was a lot deeper than this.
There are useful chirps, like a shortage of electricity (something I caused quite a lot), and there are a whole bunch of fluff chirps. Some of them are genuinely funny and made me laugh...the first three times I saw them. By the fiftieth time I couldn't care less about them. The problem is that they drag the signal-to-noise ratio of useful information on Chirper down. Everytime he chirps, I need to read what it says just in case it might be important, even though most of the time it isn't. I would really, really, love an option to make it so that he only brings up each flavor chirp once, or at least not more than once every X hours. As I said, many of them are funny or at least amusing the first time. I'd rather they remain funny by their rarity rather than becoming over-exposed and completely repugnant. 
