User blog comment:LostInRiverview/SimCity Beta Test/@comment-1966471-20130128010703

Been playing the beta demo all weekend. It's a great game and a big improvement over SimCity 4. I say this as a long-time mayor. All started with SC 2000 for me as a child. Anyways, an hour isn't long enough, but you can still have plenty of fun building your city. Oh and if you get lucky, you'll experience a disaster in your city. Which BTW are AWESOME! On my end, I had no issues with lag or the region loading screen. Can run the game smoothly at medium settings but that'll change later this year when I spend even more Simoleons on my PC. Anyways, it's a great edition to the franchise and 1000X better than Societies. Also, so glad you can turn off that wird visual effect that we've seen in many videos of the game. Can't wait for launch, although it's the same day as University Life's release.