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Very enjoyable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think the game is very well done, and I received it in good condition. Play it often.

Crazy Complexity

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have to say, when i bought this game i was expected a so-so game i would get bored of after a month or so. But this game is so fun and addicting because of its sheer complexity

The Deluxe version is completely worth it, allowing you a grasp at your city's traffic network. At any building or home, you can see exactly how many people leave the home during the day, where they go to work, how they get to work, and how long it takes them. From this information you can figure out the best way to organize your cities and streets to minimize traffic congestion.

Also, region play is fun and interesting. Instead of individual cities you can play with like in the old sim city, you can customize a whole region (Which means many cities all connected)! You can create a city and add roads that go connect to the adjacent city and then go work on that city and see the effects the to cities have on each other.

Also with the Deluxe edition comes a U Drive It part of the game. You can actually drive your cars around the city in 3rd person and do missions and things to see how hard it is for the school bus to get all the kids just using small streets or how fast your taxi cab can drop someone off at the airport. U Drive It, to me at least, is a fun way to see your city and really spend some time with it. Rather that just seeing it as something your building and imagine it as something you could live in.

This is a very fun game and there are some great Modds and downloadable building models out there from simtropolis website. You can download buildings not in the game to customize your city even more. These things can enhance your gameplay.

All in all, a great game. If you don't like having to worry about what types of roads and mass transport is best to move your sims to their jobs you won't like this game. If you don't like to think about the best way to zone residential, commercial, and industrial areas in the way that will make the grow the best. If you don't like having to worry about "rings of influence" around your public buildings such as Hospitals, Schools, and Police, you won't like this game. For those of you who do like this stuff, buy this game and view its complexity yourself, you won't be disappointed.

Warning: This game can be habbit forming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Before we were married, my husband got this as a Christmas gift. I watched him play it a few times & he made me try it. After just a few minutes, I was hooked. He made me a copy of the game, which I took home & would play for hours on end. At first glance, the game doesn't seem that interesting. But after you start building your city & see it start to grow & progress, it's hard to pull yourself away. It's pretty easy to get the hang of & the graphics are quite realistic. I am looking forward to trying the new edition of the game.

Happy with game and Amazon, not with AE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As I received the product, it could not be installed as one of the files on the CD was damaged. I contacted AE and they never read my emails, finally after about 2 weeks going back and forth, they understood my concern and told me I needed a new CD.

I was very happy with Amazon. As soon as I contacted them, they shipped another one before I even shipped my copy back. I received the new one in 2 days

I love it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played SimCity 2000 way back in the day, and decided to get back into mayorship after moving to NYC. Maxis as certainly advanced a lot in this version of the game. Lots more to take care of like garbage and high schools, but what I love working with the most is designing an efficient transit system, now with separate rails, subways, and monorails, plus a plethora of other options. And instead of in the previous game aiming for a general residential-goes-to-industrial/commercial route for mass transit, you can actually see where individual Sims live and work and make the best routes. My only complaint is it's sometimes a huge pain to actually lay out some transit elements like rail and highway. Messages like "this terrain is not valid" aren't too helpful in figuring out an alternate way. However, I would recommend this game to anyone who has thought "they should make a subway that goes like this..." or "why do they need a landfill here".

Best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Best game I ever played in my life. I built a city with 1,045,934. It's way better than societies, even if it's old i never seem to get tired of it. If there is a contest for best city I am going to win it sure enough. I recommend this game than societies. My video of my city will be soon at youtube.com.

Ign score:
Simcity 4: 9.2

And Rush hour: 8

Gamespot score: 8.3

Moderately good computer needed...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First off, great highly addictive game. I was hooked on it the first time I saw it in action at my friend's house. I bought it last year and I still like playing it every once in a while.

I was a bit upset though when I played it on my old computer. I found that the vehicle missions would get complicated because the graphics would "chunk up" as my graphics card would struggle to keep up. It's no fault of the game though, I just had a very bad computer >_<.

I like this game, I sort of like the music, and the replay value is high.

Sim City 4 Deluxe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What an unbelievable game!!! It really lets you take control of whatever you want. The tutorials are good for getting you started, which is exactly what they were meant for. Not too short, not too long. The gameplay I felt was fantastic. Especially for the price. You just cant beat it. Start small and just watch your cities grow. There are alot of decisions to make which makes the game really appealing for me. Im also a big C&C fan and I felt the interface was very similar. Great buy for an ever better price!!!

Cool fun and even educational

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sim City 4 Deluxe is a great strategy game with outstanding graphics and effects. It is fun for any skill level plkayer, even older children. It can even be a great learning tool into land usage, geography, economics and social studies. I can't stop once I begin playing.

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.

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