Recent reviews by poizonous

Tile Upkeep ruined the game if you want to use tile purchasing. a city simply lives on a knifes edge of growth as you fiddle with services, tiles can't be resold if you make a bad purchase, and doing so once is a miss-step in budgeting that used to be recoverable with hard work, but now leads to debt spirals and eventually a city which cannot be rescued. Then there's no difference in the later game after milestone 10, where money is flowing smoothly and you really only have non-financial resource issues.

"it encourages good budgeting". no, this is just overhead with no excuse. a city rarely "owns" its land, and therefore i'd also expect to see tile upkeep decrease as i parcel it off to other entities through zoning and all that. this is a bad direction for the internal economy of the game, and it does nothing to truly improve the game in the first ten milestones.

RUSH has been on my wishlist for a long time as a low requirements game to enjoy while I'm away from my desktop (Which also means I didn't plan to run it under Windows.)

Here's all I have to say: This title is no longer cross platform. Under OS X it produces a white screen with background music and a green cursor. There goes the entire reason I bought it. A similar problem is produced in the developer's game EDGE, so it's clearly an engine issue. I reported the issues within hours of buying the games, hoping maybe they'd fix it. Nothing.

Do not buy this if you're trying to support cross platform developers.

EDGE has been on my wishlist for a long time as a low requirements game to enjoy while I'm away from my desktop (Which also means I didn't plan to run it under Windows.)

Here's all I have to say: This title is no longer cross platform. Under OS X it produces a white screen with background music. There goes the entire reason I bought it. Same problem is produced in the developer's game RUSH, so it's clearly an engine issue. I reported the issues within hours of buying the games, hoping maybe they'd fix it. Nothing.

Do not buy this if you're trying to support cross platform developers.