The levels were all presented in the same manner as well. It was like a freaking stepford community, and the lack of visual stimulation eventually got really old, really fast. Old people all looked the same, young parents looked the same, and teens and children all were the same. There was a small group of different residents, yet they all would look the same. The same went for individuality in the towns characters. A few new exceptions in dialog did take place, but they were small and limited additions. Residents filed the same complaints, their dialog was even all the same. The dissapointing thing about everything was how every single challenge presented to me in the game were the exact same replicated challeneges the original game offered. You have businesses, residents, offices, and factories all looking to claim a plot of land in your town. These cards are residents looking to move in to the newly built town. I figured the game would present a slew of other new things to it, only it didn’t.Īfter building roads, I was presented with the same type of building cards I got in the original game. I admitt it was much easier, and took up way less time, but in a sad way, it took away a fun element the original game had.Īlright so, we have a new character to build the town, new downgraded graphics and a new way to place the roads. They call this new birds eye placement easier, so you could see where your roads were being placed. I hated it! One of the funnest things about the game originally was the way you could build the roads. Instead I got to use this ridiculous birds eye view while placing down my roads. In the original your character would run through the land and could draw in roads using a piece of chalk. I was a little mad though that they took away the use of the chalk pen. The first thing I built of course was roads. Your job is to basically build the town from the ground up. Next you are plopped into a deserted mass of land. Now that you have a character you assign it a name.

Regardless of the new addition of selection, the vhoices were small. In the last game I was stuck with one tacky yellow suit wearing cheeseball. This time I got to choose from a small selection of characters. Instead of playing with cartoon like animation characters, the characters instead looked like pencil drawn Japanese anime… and not the good kind!īesides this difference there was one more different, and ONLY one more difference. I didn’t think a part 2 of a game could present graphics worse than an original, but Metropolismania 2 clearly took 2 steps back in the graphics department. The same type of music is heard on the start up, but clearly something had been done to further destroy the graphics. The game starts off in nearly the exact same manner the first one did.

To better put it, Metropolismania 2 is straight up laziness on the developers part, and frankly I was baffled at why they would even release this one.

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