But the past three years have brought more high-priced disappointment: September collapses in 2007 and 2008 followed by an injury-riddled 70-92 disaster in 2009 that exposed the risks ofbuilding a roster with little depth to support a handful of expensive stars.
The developers are promising a more intense depthof interaction than most city-building games on Facebook, and it will be interesting to see if the franchise that basically invented the genre can do it again on Facebook.
Established after the war, it runs (with perforations) all around London, to a depthof up to 50 miles, and bans almost all building on half a million hectares of land around the city.