SimCity 4
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In SimCity 4, you don’t just build your city, you breathe life into it. Sculpt mountains, gouge riverbeds, and seed forests to lay the basis for your creation. Then construct the most realistic metropolis you can presume. Your city comes alive with the bundle and bustle of construction crews, the snarl of traffic, and the activity of your Sims. Go your personalized Sims into your city and watch as they go about their daily lives. Build mansions on mountainsides, raise skyscrapers city center, and build moving networks to form a massive region of SimCities that share and compete for resources. With every choice you make, your city and your Sims will respond for better or worse. In SimCity 4, your city pulses with the life you give it.Amazon.com Review
It’s hard to believe that creator Will Wright had distress selling his original SimCity concept to publishers. That first game went on to fame, notoriety, and splendid praise–from critics, gamers, and even educators–and spawned countless imitators, not the least of which include Wright’s own smaller-scale The Sims, which went on to become a phenomenon in its own right. Now on its fourth edition, SimCity returns to our hard drives, and would-be city planners everywhere will be busy for a long, long time.
SimCity 4 functions much like its predecessors. You’ve got the potential to zone land as residential (green), commercial (blue), and manufacturing (golden-haired). You control the budget. You choose where to place crucial services like police, fire, medical, and even utilities like potential and water. You place schools, parks, roads, water towers, and scenery as you accede to the many demands of your Sim citizens. Do a excellent job and your city will grow and the cash will flow into your coffers. Do a terrible job and the people will pack up and go away, leaving your city treasury in horrific debt and landing you what the game cheekily considers to be a far simpler job: senator. The game requires a balancing act that takes both plotting and a persnickety nature. There are charts to read, reports to watch, and, above all, needs to juggle. It’s rewarding when it all comes together, and frustrating when you fail, once again, to build anything worthwhile.
That’s why I wish the game came with a better manual. The included book glosses over most major information and then neglects vital aspects, such as the RCI indicator (which clarifies zoning needs) and parts of the budget. At the very least, the manual should include tips on handling debt. There are two tutorials which cover the basics, but again, they won’t help you get out of distress once you get in too deep. You can find this information in the approach guide, which is sold separately, but you really shouldn’t have to go that route.
The graphics are incredible, showing a vibrant metropolis with scurrying traffic, wandering Sims, smoking chimneys, and sparkling lights when night cascade. Fireworks reward each year of service. And wait until you see the cool disasters you can let loose if the mood strikes you–fire, lightning, tornado, volcano, and giant robot. Oddly, there’s a significant performance hit even on quick systems. Thankfully, the stuttery scrolling and slow-to-respond zoom don’t hurt the game too much since you can pause it at will or quick forward if you need to wait for your cash reserves to build. The most significant flaw is that the game only offers one save slot, which discourages experimentation.
Despite minor imperfections SimCity 4 is an awesome game. You can build several cities next to each other on the map and make them dependant on each other. (You can build the greater L.A. area, in other words.) You can even import your Sims from The Sims to live in your city. Such familiar characters can tell you a lot about what your city needs. Place simply, city plotting has never been this fun, this challenging, or this deep. –Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
- Gorgeous graphics and animation
- Deeper and more realistic than ever before
Cons:
- Runs at a snail’s pace on most systems
- Inadequate manual
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If you buy this game please be warned that it is very terrible.If you reflect this game will offer you the action packed thrills of GTA or anything by the side of that line please reconsider. I play a lot of sports meeting and I know video sports meeting.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m a beta teste for EA. I in fact plaid this game and it sucked cause there are no guns and stuff. You can’t nale all those sims with Meterors!
Rating: 3 / 5
Hey i’m thirteen and i am not that stupid. i own SC3000 Unlimited. it dosen’t have just 4 disasters! it has 9 disasters!
i am still awating the reease so i can buy it. i am wondering if you can make your own buildings and scenarios? that was the fun thing about 3000. i have to give it to the people at EA the screen-shots look realy cool!
Rating: 5 / 5
I loved the Simcity sports meeting and felt ripped off with Simcity 3000 as it was basically the same package as the previous Simcity. If you like the basic city building concepts of the Simcity sports meeting, Simcity 4 is the exact same thing. At least they changed the graphics for this one and gave it an updated look for today’s video cards but if you look at screenshots for Simcity 4 you’ll see that it has the same rules, building types, etc. If you’d like to play Simcity again with an updated graphics engine, go for this title, but if you’ve been “simcitied out,” save your cash and buy another title. Sims anything sells like hotcakes and EA realizes this. It’s another attempt to cash in on the Sim name.
Rating: 1 / 5
This gamae looks so cool. The disasters look cool,the buildings look cool. The whole game looks cool. I can’t wait until it comes out. If you linke SimCity 3000, you’ll like SimCity 4.
Rating: 5 / 5