[wongarsu]

But you are rarely looking at it from street level, you spend most of your time in a birds-eye view

I guess you could argue that top down should be defined narrower than that, but the steam tag Top Down is full of games like this [1]

1: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Top-Down/

[bcye]

Detailers spend a lot of time in 3D perspectives and zoomed in close so I don't think that this is generally true.

[TylerE]

Honestly the gameplay is so shallow I'd spend my time zoomed in too. Talk about a series where every release went down hill. The original Cities in Motion was the best of the 4.