2404 writes: "As far as city-building games go, City Life has been the best replacement for the SimCity series. After SimCity Societies shook up the series' core gameplay foundations (mostly for the worse), City Life stands as the only modern city-builder that lets you cultivate barren expanses into urban, populated cities or throw yourself into the middle of scenarios that require your hand in saving cities from dissolving away into rural wastelands. With Monte Cristo's latest entry, City Life 2008 Edition adds new buildings to build and new scenarios to take part in. It's the definitive version of City Life, but it's also devoid of features that change anything, which makes City Life 2008 Edition a purchase for newcomers only."
