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Nice Cheats

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: October 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a cool game. If your planning on cheating there are a lot of easy ways to get off easy. Many people like building large cities, and virtualy the only way to get over 100,000 people is a cheat for everything to be free. I personally have 287,000 people in one city using only half of the map. There are many neat cheats for this game at gamesages.com to help you really build an urban empire.

2000 or 3000

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 20
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The differences between 2000 and 3000 are small. Well 1) thier is more buildings. and 2) Their is more oppertunites to make money. Other than that the game isn't harder, or any more fun. Save yourself the Money if you want to get a Sim City, Get 2000.

Breath Taking

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you have SC2K, your in for a surprise with this one. The detail lets you cover your Sims down to the last child. In one word, it's outstanding. There are a few drawbacks. The Sims complain about almost everything, from a 5% tax to not having high tech jobs that you can't give them. Despite this, I definately recommend you pick up this game. It's a real power trip!

A Game that never gets old

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a game that just never gets old, I have played Simcity ever since the first one was released. There are so many things you can do, and it's a great way to spend spare time.

Well-balanced, works on a modest computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a good, well-balanced game. Start building your city little by little. Build a power plant, small-density residential, commercial and industrial zone, water pipes, that's it. Use the cheapest streets. Every other square in a residential and commercial are should have a bus stop. Of course, bus stops cost money, but it will save you from traffic congestions, and you won't need to invest in expensive roads and motorways. Click on the bus stops and watch the number of passengers, if it's low, demolish it.

Watch your cash flow and the other maps gradually. As soon as you have small but solid cash flow, expand your city gradually. Only add money-eating facilities like fire station, police, education and health care when there is absolute need in it. Expand extensively: cover large areas with low-quality low-density zones.

When you have enough money, move to high-tech industry which have no pollution. To do that, you need highly-educated workforce. Build schools, colleges, museums, and libraries. But watch carefully the number of attendees: only build a schools when the old are overwhelmed. So with health care.

Sooner or later you will be offered federal objects like a mega-market, military base or waste disposal. Accept them all, it will bring you mega-cash-flow that will allow you to significantly improve your city facilities.

Also don't forget to make money by selling power to the neighbors: make connections to them with roads and power lines.

This game is very well-balanced, unlike SimCity 4 Rush Hour. I highly recommend SimCity 3000, be it Jewel Case or other edition.

The Ultimate Simulation !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sim City 3000 is with no question in my mind the best Simulation game on the market today. You start of as a mayer with a set amount of money and from scratch you can make a beautiful city that makes millions. This is a must buy game for PC gamers. My city has over 700,000 people and 29 million dollars. I have had the game for years and still I play it on Saturday and Sunday mornings. This is a game that has graphics I believe will blow you away and if you do good your commercial zones will develop into high skyscrapers. While the residential sector of your city land value is astronomical. So go to the store and treat yourself to this game now.

Simcity 3000: the good and the not-so-good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Simcity 3000 is a good simulation. The graphics are outstanding, the music is ok, it is fun to look down and see vehicles driving on the streets and the people walking around. Even the sound effects match with the specific area of the city you are looking at. For example, high-crime residential areas feature sporadic gunfire, rapid footsteps and the clanging of a chain-link fence. the bustling commercial areas feature heavy traffic noises and sirens, and industrial areas have heavy truck and machinery noises. You control the layout of the streets and the zoning. Then the city develops itself, according to land values and access to transportation.

The not-so-good: When areas become blighted and buildings are abandoned, the buildings become black boarded-up boxes that no longer resemble the original building style-- for example, a twelve story apartment building, when abandoned, becomes a three-story black box with boarded-up windows. You cannot have suspension bridges cross above highways or city streets. ALL the streets intersect (no way to build overpasses, except highways crossing streets) There is no way to build elevated rail lines-- the railroad must cross every street at an intersection. Also, you are mostly restricted to a north-south street grid system

Overall, this is a great game. I just felt like pointing out some flaws that might annoy some people.

Awesome game, but SC3U is out too...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 3000 is great, but there is no reason to buy this game since SimCity 3000 Unlimited is out. I have both versions of SC3000, and SC3000 Unlimited has everything this regular version does, but with many more features included like the Building Architect Plus, Scenario Creator, and many new in-game features. So, if you are thinking of getting this game, go with SC3000 Unlimited. It is just the same game, but with many new features.

Sims applaud mayor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Gads...this game is very addictive, if you are able to master a few key tricks at the beginning, else it is extremely tough. My largest city to date is more than three million strong, teeming with skyscrapers, subways, and suspension bridges. Three free hints: 1-watch the garbage! 2-watch the zoning...much more sensitive than Sim2000 3-Schools, Cops, Firemen, Parks...if you don't build enough, your town will depopulate 4-ignore neighboring mayors...they are your competitors! 5-Never listen to Barry Manilow 6-public transit is a must.

Sim skip . . .

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 3000 forces the player to become attached to his or her city. You will find yourself during dinner or what have you, wondering if the free way system you installed will take to the simcitizens.

However, with all the time this game consumes, once your city hits a certain point, you must move onto another city, otherwise you get bored, and shelf the game. I suggest you skip this edition, drop the extra money, and go straight for the Unlimited Edition. It will be much more rewarding, and worth the cash.

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