Although AT3 gets points for actually having an interesting setting-in theory-the execution not only leaves something to be desired, but is often downright numbing. I found myself reminiscing fondly on the Sim City games, pretty much the franchise as a whole, as I 'played' Airport Tycoon 3. Every once in a while, a game comes along that makes me miss the features of another game in the genre-features that I took for granted or hardly ever used.