OVERALL a good game. Note that I'm playing 9 months after release.
I'm glad I have it and I'm glad they put it out. They did a great job with:
-Graphics look amazing
-How the city works has been totally overhauled and so far I love it. The way you have to deliver high voltage power to substations, then divvy it out to buildings (it's not tedious like it sounds. In fact, it's easier to move power around than the first game!)
-Water and sewage, and the water treatment facilities
-Industries
-Road building tools in vanilla are 10X better than vanilla Cities 1
-Terrain tools are 10X better than vanilla terrain tools in Cities 1
-The options in zoning are amazing and blow the old game out of the water
This is all just for starters.
I hope more assets come though. The assets look amazing but more variation is crucial so everything doesn't look the same.
More road building and transit tools are needed too; again, not enough variation.
I hope this game expands like the 1st one.....it has a LOT of potential and they really put a lot of work into this game, and it shows.