A lot of people think very poorly of this game, but I think it is actually much better than its predecessor. As a casual player, it is extremely easy to build beautiful & realistic cities in this game -- and the quality of life improvements (road tools, zoning, utilities, etc.) over the previous game are far cleaner than mods could previously provide. ... Also, many people complained of a performance bug around the game's release... but toying around with the settings for about five seconds (disabling and re-enabling AMD sampling) fixed the issue immediately.