Good thing I don't read reviews :P
The camera control could be a little better (I need to remember to invert the x axis so it'll work like I expect). On the easist setting it is pretty relaxed and I haven't had any problem building my city. At the worst I had to crank up the game speed and wait a few minutes to build up my money reserve.
I haven't played any of the SimCity games since SimCity 2000 and I'm liking this a lot more. For one thing I like that I just have to build power plants and not have to worry about running power lines everywhere and there is no sewer or subway lines to run. There is a subway but all you have to do is build the enterences to it and the game does the rest.
In the game the is a news ticker at the bottom of the screen that gives some useful information but they throw in a lot of crazy stuff. One was "Century old papers reveal life was different a century ago". Dunno why but that made me chuckle.