While there are plenty of great apps to play with on your iPhone/iPod touch, there hasn’t been a really big killer app to launch the system as a highlight gaming platform. SimCity may change that fact for good.

So far, developer EA has put forth minimal effort with their iPhone apps, to be honest. Neither Spore nor Tetris have been anything all that noteworthy, not quite living up to the iPhone’s capability. But after game website Kotaku spent some time with EA’s latest big project, SimCity, they had nothing but great things to say about the game. Here is a quote from the site:

“Whatever you do, though, don’t go thinking this is SimCity Lite. This mobile version is fully featured, with pre-built cities, accountant recommendations, water pipes, natural disasters, etc. The works. [Pinching] in as close as you can on the 2D sprites reveals intricate details, such a smoke emitting from towers, or shading alongside the buildings. Overall, a really nice graphical presentation that compares similarly to SimCity 3000.”

For their full impressions, go here: http://kotaku.com/5104230/simcity-iphone-impressions

SimCity’s release is planned in late December, and it’ll be a hot download, no doubt.