To my dismay, I discovered my "usual" EB Games has stopped carrying PC games entirely.  Sigh.  Fortunately a few calls around later I found a Gamestop with CivCity and Civ 4: Warlords in stock.  I'm hoping to dig into C4W later, maybe this weekend, but I was able to log a few hours with CivCity.

I absolutely adore city building games.  CivCity definitely tickles that same fancy.  I love watching my little people walk around and tweak with the ever growing machinery of the city, with the flow of resources and constant troubleshooting.  I'm not far enough into CivCity to say whether it has long term problems, but it is off to a nice start.

Unfortunately for me, even a medium-small size city starts to noticeably slow down and start getting choppy, especially when scrolling.

I think the time has finally come to get a 2nd Gig of RAM for my machine, and hope it improves the situation... I hate not being able to play a game I'm really excited about due to hardware reasons!