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Best SimCity yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have had this game for 3 years now and it's still enjoyable, playable, and challenging. For the price that is runs for now, people shouldn't think it any less of a game simply because it's not the orginal $50, or the $50 that new games run.

I have had a few issues, it has sometimes stopped for no reason and disappeared from my screen. I have now learned to use the save function.

Other than that, it's a great game.

Nice open strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great and you can find a lot of user-created content in the net to have more fun. Sometimes it can be frustrating at times but it's really nice to build your city (or region) from scratch and take it to very high levels, have a lot of people and let them live in wonderful urbanistic paradises or make their lives a living-hell in a terrible looking and badly planned metropolis. This game is never over, you can play and play and the fun will never stop... until SimCity 5 comes out...

Good experience once u get the problems solved

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

really good game. A bunch of bugs at first but that was all solved with the patch.

You are in control - Sim City 4 Deluxe

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This can keep you busy for hours! You decide where and who can live in your city, what kind of city it will be and everything about it!

A Solid Sim Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As a kid, I loved SimCity2000, but hadn't played any of the more recent Sim games until I got to this one. This is everything 2000 was, plus loads more. The interface is easy to use, the gameplay is intuative, but it is definitely not too easy - I've had a couple of failed cities on Hard difficulty. The Deluxe Edition is worth it, it seems to add a lot more neat features.

life was so much simpler when we were kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this based on the countless hours of time I spent on prior versions of SimCity over the years. I hadn't played the last few iterations, but the prior products had a good enough place in my mind to warrant this purchase. Man, the game sure grew a lot more complex!

The complexity is both an asset and a hinderance. I especially liked the multiple city aspect, which was a nice layer of added complexity. However, there is just so much detail in the options of teh rest of the game that it is overwhelming at times.

4 Years Later and Still Going Strong

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of SimCity 2000, a huge player of SimCity 3000, and waited anxiously for months for SimCity 4 to come out in 2004. With the release of the Rush Hour expansion pack, the game was made that much better.
I've played this game for four years, and it's still as entertaining as it was when I first got it. Yes, it's a little complex. Yes, it's "hard" at times. But who hasn't played a first-person shooter where you can't get past the 4th level and it frustrates you? Balancing a budget and growth while still maintaining the crucial aspects such as transportation and public safety and education are at times addictive.

What really makes this game amazing is that it allows you, the user, to add what you want into the game through downloads. There are numerous websites that let you download buildings, car skins, new roads, more buildings, etc, and put them in your cities. It's for this that I say among SimCity fans, there are no two copies of SimCity 4 that are exactly alike and can always keep the game somewhat fresh.

There are some problems, of course. The more you add to the game, the more likely it is to crash. To fix this: save early, save often. Sometimes it doesn't make sense why the game won't let you do something like place a road here or a railroad there. I don't get it, but it takes some work to fix that.
The good news is that because it's a four year-old game, it runs fantastically on newer computers.

EA took a risk with SimCity Societies, and hopefully one day SimCity 5 will rectify this for us SC4 fans. (I haven't played SimCity Societies, so I can't Until then, SimCity 4 remains a fantastic game that proves a challenge and is still fun.

Yep, its SimCity

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Okay so I hadn't play SimCity in a while before buying this game, and surprisingly it is exactly the same game I played when I was ten (that was eleven years ago). Besides bringing up memories which were pleasurable, this game was not that entertaining but mildly addictive until I built everything I could possibly build in two days. While it was difficult to maintain a city when I was ten, this time around I was given buildings from the happy citizens, and had completely run out of space to build and my city budget was still in the black. I tried to play rush hour but found that to be very irritating and stupid. The missions and controls were horrible. So if you enjoy a challenge and have never played any version of SimCity, this game is for you. But for me, until they make a new ground-breaking city simulator, I'll hold on to my money.

Cities are fun (sort of)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is great but some previous experience with the other sim city games is recomended although, you don't have to. There is a training program in it but if you wanna jump right in then you might want to be familiar with the buttons. Also it is very easy to go into bankruptcy.

Mildly buggy but still fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is about a week long into ownership of this game. I have frequent crashes to desktop so I have learned to save progress often. The game is immersive and I really enjoy it. It's not so hard to learn and it is very rewarding to play. Therapeutic in some ways. I am happy I bought it.

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