Posted: 21 October 2003 at 9:52pm | IP Logged

Just wanted to post a thread asking people what their initial thoughts of the game are... here are a couple of mine.

Having stumbled across this at Happypuppy.com, I downloaded it thinking it would be a gambling game like Hoyle Casino or something.  I couldn't be any more wrong.  This was such a great surprise, I found myself playing the demo for the next 5 hours straight.

I normally get pretty bored with Simulation games, but this kept my short attention span pretty occupied!  The graphics are amazing and its always nice to see a game that will work nicely on a machine thats not the most expensive out there.  As I played the demo, I kept asking myself "my graphic card can do this?" and "Why cant more games run this smoothly?"

I love the ability to go ANYWHERE.. and look at ANY part of the game from ANY point of view.. all in FULL 3D realtime...  it totally changed my views on simulation gaming... imagine if any of the sim titles were like that.. but they aren't and this Vegas game is.

The gameplay is great.  You simply click something and it changes.  its that simple... If you want a new statue with water surrounding it, in less than thiry seconds, its there.. and you can immediately check it out from a 360 degree point of view. that blew my mind... normally you go from one "mode" to another in order to create changes like that..Not in here..its all written into one large interactive game world thingy.

I just want to applaud the designers and creators of this game for taking a hard-core CS fanatic away from his daily routine of fragging total strangers online and immersing him into an easy and intuitive game that allows you to become a major player on the Las Vegas market.