Touch Arcade reviews SimCity Deluxe for the iPad

Just as you’d expect, it’s better for it — it’s easier to click within the game and the UI has a lot of breathing room. I still find myself struggling to connect roads and keep things in an orderly fashion, though, I’m thinking this is more a result of the isometric camera than anything else.  Working at a slight angle isn’t easy for a city planner in the early stages of the game.

Aside from that, we’re looking at a picture perfect port with a platform-specific flaw: it tends to chug. The iPhone version of Deluxe is pretty snappy, but the iPad version, for whatever reason, suffers frame drops or otherwise general slowness.

full review here