While I'm at it, how good was Sim City 4?
Of all the games I've played in that series, Sim City 4 has to be the best. For once, you can build cities that weren't an oversimplified mess (but then again I got too used to the realistic layouts of cities, unlike the previous installments, so I'm biased here), and best of all, it's single player.
I was so sad when I heard Electronic Arts pulled so much of Maxis' work out of their hands and fucked the recent game all up to where it is nearly unplayable. I know, it's Electronic Arts and they're amongst some of the greediest game developers on the face of the planet, but on their part that has been the biggest dick-move on their part since making Dungeon Keeper into a Clash of Clan clone, even making it substantially worse.