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Loads of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my first experience with Sim City. I've never played with the earlier versions. Important Note: The computer prompts you to type in the code that is in the white box in the lower left part of back of the CD case. Well, I looked and looked, and it wasn't where the prompt said it would be. After five minutes of thinking my eyes were playing tricks on me, I finally found the code. It's on the back of the owners manual located inside the CD case. You'll find it at the very top of that back cover of the manual, not in the lower left corner.

The tutorials are helpful, so if you're new to all of this I highly recommend you go through those first. And if you feel you need to go through them again, you can reset the tutorials to start fresh all over.

I'll built a small city, and I've only had this game for a day, but I know I'm going to love it.

SimCity 4 is Addicting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: February 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 4 is a very addicting game. The first few days I had it I played it late into the night. It is very fun, and very realistic. You have many, many activities that are available to you and you get to control your own city! You can develop it into a great vacation spot and a thriving community, or you can destroy it with an earthquake, a tornado, lightning, a volcano, aliens, giant robots, and a Godzilla-like creature.
One of the most fun things to do is to drive cars and fly airplanes.
This game will be fun to both serious gamers and people seeking a good laugh! It's an all-around well designed game that never gets boring.

Good, but not to good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: December 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To say the least, this game is done fairly well. there's a lot more things to build than there was in SimCity 3000 Unlimited. I love the missions, where you get to drive cars, boats, and planes around your city. My sim mode is great to, where you can put a sim in your city and follow their lives. There are also several cons. For one, there are way fewer landmarks than there were in SimCity 3000 Unlimited. Also, the landmarks cost a bundle to place. There are also no scenarios in Sim City 4, which stinks because I really liked them. You also have fewer starting options. In SimCity 3000 Unlimited, you could choose what the soil of your city looked like. Not in SimCity 4. Also, there aren't as many building style choices in Sim City 4 (for example, there are no Asian Buildings). There are also less disasters. On the good side, you do get to pick where the disasters occur. To wrap things up, this game is good and can entertain you for hours, but is not without its share of cons.
(Ps-to all of you who have the game, here's the cheatcode I found most helpful. First, press Ctrl+x. When a box appears, enter:
you don't deserve it
It unlocks all gifts!!

An very addictive and fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, you'll have hours of fun building cities and connecting them, people will go from one city to another, and there's a great level of control over traffic systems, you can see where people are going and build systems that take them there, no more guessing. My only complain is that sometimes the game crashes to the desktop for some unknown reason, other than that its a great game, I recommend it highly.

This game was good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For those that have have played similar games like Sim City before, this one was great! I have played Sim City 2000, but that was years ago. I had found that game addicting. Now, years later, when I ordered Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition, I was blown away! This game is much better than 2000 could hope to be. They have resolved many of the issues that I had with the older game and then some. I have found this game to be addicting to, and have started different cities at the same time. I am working on getting the "perfect city" for me to be happy with. I highly recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of any of the Sim games. I could even say at times it was funny even to read the tongue-in-cheek sayings that come up just as you are starting up the game for the day like "Bureaucratizing Bureaucracies". It was not so much hilarious but, it can help you get in the "fun mode" to play the game. The advisors can get slightly annoying after awhile, especially when you have a different idea about what you want to see in your city than they do, but it is still overall a very entertaining game. My next purchase will most likely be Sims 2, for more of the Sims experience.

What a mess!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 45
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Nearly every good idea or advancement they promised, has been implemented badly. And oddly enough, everything fun and addictive about previous versions has been forgotten. This game actually gets worse the more you play.

Just a few problems with this game are:
A poor interface with few options - No multiple saves here.
Bad "terrascaping" tools. Worse than SC2000
Circa 1999 graphics. (despite killing your system's specs)
No real "regional" play - Time stops in parts of your city not played. So one can throw all the 'junk' in those parts, and it will never actually affect your played "cities".
Horrible AI/pathfinding -cars drive in circles and sims can't get to work right across the street.
This game has MANY more horrid mistakes, too many to list here.
The bad AI within SC Deluxe is especially damaging because nearly every factor in one's city runs off of your citizens abilities to commute- (jobs,land values,pollution, costs, etc.) not even mentioning traffic congestion problems!
SimCity 4 Deluxe is NOT a game for thinkers and observant gamers, as they will quickly see a game that should never have been released. It is just that awful.

Great fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: August 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun! Not as great as Simcity3K was for the most part. But simcity 4 is an enjoyable game with many new features and the interactivity is great. 4 Stars. And I didn't have a problem finding the Product code, it's not always on the CD case, many are now on the MANUAL, check there before giving the game a bad review people.

Read this gramatically correct review before you by "SimCity 4" :

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

"SimCity 4" is without a doubt, to me, the best computer game on the market today. While "The Sims" is enjoyable, and "Civilization" is pretty cool, "SimCity 4" comes down #1 in my book.
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If you're reading this review, you probably have played a "Rollercoaster-Tycoon" game. If you played it, you probably had fun, at least a mild dose of enjoyment, right? Well take that excitement-level and multiply it by 100 - thus, you have "SimCity 4."

But what really is so good about this 4-year old game? Why should you buy it? To begin, there are numerous improvements on it over "SimCity3000," though the Disasters Feature is not as exciting. With a choice of night or day, much better graphics, and an easier (but at the same time, more complex) layout of the game, this game is definitely worth the now-reduced price. You can even drive around your cities! Plus, a new Region Feature is available - you create a city, then link it up to another city in your own region.

The only con to this game : once in a while, the program will close down. But if you save your city about every ten minutes or so, you should have nothing to worry about.

In the end, I highly recommend SimCity 4 for anyone looking for fun. If you enjoy simulation or "Tycoon-based" games, then this is the one for you.

Hats off to Maxis on a stunning urban achievement

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing SimCity since the original was released on Windows systems. With every new release, Maxis (and now their partners EA) the crew packs more realism and fun than the previous version--Simcity 4 is no exception to this legacy. While the gameplay may seem a bit complicated if you're not currently a hardcore Simmer, it's pretty easy to get used to. Also, this game isn't for the faint of heart-like the other game from EA, The Sims, I find myself spending hours on my cities...this is a great gift for anyone--kid or adult!

Game has no autosave feature...but does have autocrash

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: September 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

*sigh* Once again I spend some time working on a nice little city, only to have the program abruptly exit to Windows XP. No error message, nothing; just gone. And since Maxis couldn't be bothered to implement an autosave feature (a problem The Sims shares), that's it. Everything I just did is forgotten.

Of course, the ideal thing would be not to have the game crash in the first place. But hey, I'm a programmer. I know it's hard to get all the bugs out, even two or three years after the game's release. That's why other games (e.g. Railroad Tycoon II, Heroes of Might & Magic II and III) have autosave features. Since the game already saves, this feature wouldn't be hard to put in. But whether due to hubris or obliviousness, Maxis fails to do so.

Incidentally, when such crashes first began, I contacted Maxis repeatedly, sent them the autogenerated crash logs, and so forth. I never got anywhere. Support is only by e-mail, and you *never* get the same person twice in a row, so there's really no hope of making progress; each person you deal with has no real investment in helping you get the game working. Suggestions they give are of the "wipe your computer and reinstall Windows...and are you *sure* you don't have a virus?" type. I have the latest patch installed, and still I never know when the game will suddenly crash and lose everything.

Contrast this with, say, Blizzard, a company that keeps working on its games for *years* after they're released, stamping out bugs and adding enhancements. The EA approach seems to be to do nothing that doesn't *directly* contribute to the bottom line. (Customer goodwill, you see, only contributes *in*directly to the bottom line.)

I've learned my lesson. No SimCity 5. I've had enough. Maxis used to make quality games, but it appears that era has come to an end.

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