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No good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 41
Date: May 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok this game stinks the graphics are not great you usually get overtaken by the red ant colony and i only played this game once because i got bored.

EASY

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: June 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun until you beat it. It takes about 20 minutes to beat. Really Really Easy.

Little Strategy, Little Entertainment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 26 / 30
Date: July 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You'll like this game when you play it one or two times, but then it'll be down to a science. The other Sim games add a little surprise to each game, but SimAnt is a pretty much one time deal.

Good Things - SimAnt does provide an enemy, though it is easy to over rule. It lets you switch to a different body in the game (spider, red ant, or black ant), which allows you to see the game from a different point of view. SimAnt also provides a experiment section where you can create weird and interesting habitats for the bugs.

Bad Things - Like I said before, its a game that is to be played once. More play action will result in endless boredom. And though it does provide an enemy, it is not that hard to overcome. You will learn very quickly that the same formula can/ has to be used for each game. Even in the different sceneries (a sink, stove, dirt, steps) there is no difference in the game play except the backround. The graphics do not live up to the Sim standards and are not that interesting to look at.

Unless you get this in a value pack (SimMania, etc.) I don't think that this game is worth your time.

Not the Run-of-the-Mill Ant Farm

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 17 / 18
Date: May 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As a child, many of us have had ant farms, well, did you ever wonder what it would be like to be in one? Here's your chance. This game is cheap and simple to learn. Pros:

--It has a simple to learn interface and everything is self-explanatory

--Controlling your growing ant empire is a cinch, click there, the ant goes there, push that, yougo to the corresponding screen. Everything flows.

--It has very few system requirements. A Mac Classic with a CD drive could practically run it!

It's cheap!

Cons: --It is too simple, all you need do is sit and wait. the computer who controls your empire in all the different sections of the yard will slowly oust the bad ants until you win.

--Has little replay value. Once you win it, all the other games are the same.

Overall, I would reccommend this game, just for the fun of it. But if you want a game to get addicted to, one that you can play over and over again with a challenge, you should consider looking somewhere else.

Satisfies one's love for digging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 21
Date: February 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the ultimate ant farm for those who can't afford one. You get an ant and you dig a nest. You bring green food to feed your queen. You avoid the spider. You repeat. You can while away hours and hours with this game, digging away happily, but then you will suddenly realize that you were digging for naught. Why?

- When you switch between yard quadrants, all you work is replaced with a randomly-generated nest.

- The "warp spot" is always in the same place.

- The ants do just as well with your control as they do without such.

- The ultimate secret - tell to no one: you can win the game by setting it to max speed and just waiting. The ants will oust the reds, the humans, the dog and the lawnmower completel without your supervision.

This game gives you the illusion of being an ant. It also gives you the feeling of how worthless a single ant is. Try this game. It grows onto you.

It's better than Solitaire at least.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This isn't a bad game, actually. It's a great time killer and it is fun at some spots. The graphics are not good, obviously, but for the time it was made they are not that bad, especially the rain graphics. Do not buy this game if you are looking for an engaging game that will addict you though. This is a game that you will come back to every now and then and it will probably stay on your system for a while. One more thing: Don't buy this if you are afraid of bugs!

I am a tester for maxis and EA

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: August 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun for the whole family with easy learning for the kids and adults but this game could have been better at the start it is very hard to get use to but in the end it is very fun but after about a 2 month period it can get boring if you like simulated games go check out SIM CITY 3000 and THE SIMS they are great games!!! PoPkOrN

Gets boring too quickly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is an old game. A very old game, as you can probably see by the system requirements. So you can't expect too much from it. As an ant, you go around getting food for your anthill, and avoiding all the obvious dangers (spiders, bad ants, human feet, even lawn mowers.) You can lead your ants as an army, whether to the enemy or just to food. You have to conquer the yard. The strategy is pretty simple, and it's pretty tough to lose (all you really have to do is block the red ants' entrance to their anthill using rocks, which makes their queen die of starvation. The you just multiply.) As for the spider shooting lasers, yes, it can do that, but only when "crazy" mode is turned on (you can turn this off.) The game is mainly better for just goofing off (not actually playing to win.) For example, you can become the spider, and walk around eating both bad ants and good ants. Plus, if you are an ant, and dig far down, you actually get to these teleports underground (they look like little beetles) and you can use them to get to the red nest. Aside from the regular modes (quick game and full game), there's experimental mode, where you just goof around, and can't control any ants. You can spray pesticides, make mazes (and put ants in them), put out food, kill the spider, kill the queens, etc. All in all, the whole point of this game is a little boring, but if all you want to do is goof off without trying to win, then this is the game for you.

COOL BEANS!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! I recieved it for Christmas and I haven't stopped playing yet! Although the graphics and sound quality aren't all that great, it is such a fun game! Some of the music is realy cool! And, the best part is, it isn't that hard to learn how to play! I believe people aged 6 to 106 would enjoy playing this game!

Sim ant is cool!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Basically, you are a yellow ant in a coliny of black ants and you are trying to rid the yard of the red ants and run the humans out of their house.
Or, you can play expiremental mode, where you can do almost ANYTHING you want!(bombard the yard with food, make ants, make walls, rocks etc.)
Maxis should make a "sim ant 2", with more yards (and possibly have something special in the doghouse, such as, mabey, a dog?)

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