Excellent stuff here. Very good graphics, simple interface, and the lowest learning curve I've seen since Diablo. Remember those old commercials for the board game Othello? "Easy to learn... hard to master." Describes this to a T. My only real problem with it is that the AI seems as if it could be a little more intuitive; places you think your sims will walk don't, and sometimes sims will stroll right by a non-operational place without working there in a city with 25% unemployment. (Drives me up the wall...) But adapting yourself to the AI is rather like being a free-verse poet and writing sonnets; eventually, you'll pick up the nuances. Highly recommended.