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Endless Joy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Talk about being able to play a game forever, this seems to be the case with SC3000. This game is well done, with many features, controls, interfaces, and ultimately, complete control for you the Mayor. I have played this game over and over and built incredible cities like New San Francisco. I know you will experience tons of fun when you buy this one.

Good, but Beware

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: February 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't--I repeat, DO NOT--buy this game if you have a Gateway computer, for when you play it on there it not only blocks out all the words, but when you turn it off you have to reinstall it.

Otherwise, go ahead.

A disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When this game came out I was thrilled. I had played all the other Sim games and thought this would be even better. I bought the game and started to play. I was horrified. The graphics and the landmarks were great, but you can't build any houses, stores, roads etc. The game builds everything by itself. All you can do is decide where to put the regions.

The game is also too complicated. You have to build power plants, wter pipes, electrical lines etc. Don't waste your money on this.

Sim city 2000 is way better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: March 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am a sim city fan but this is a really bad game compared to sim city 2000. 2000 was real great with tons of things to do and you had hours of amusement never getting bored. On 3000 I got bored really quick the game is way too easy and becomes really boring. There is no real challenge. If you want a good city construction game go buy sim city 2000.

Good, Well-Balanced Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
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.

SimCity 4 will be better.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you haven't got SimCity 3000 yet than don't buy it. You will enjoy SimCity 4 which will be hitting shelfs in November.
The graphics are bad because they still used the SimVCity 2000 engine for it (although SimCity 2000 was much better). Trust me you will like SC4 better. You can import your sims and the game has a whole new 3D engine.
This game needs a bit of improvement. The fires are a bit yuck. And the buildings need some help. If you can't wait until November than just waiste your money and get it.

play Sim City 2000 instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 33
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of sim city 2000 and Sim City 3000 I am not. What sim city 3000 does is make me want to play sim city 2000!(yuch) That is an awful feeling after plunking down the $$'s. All I can say is that I know this game is a big compromise to the original intentions of the designers. if you remember Syndicate and Syndicate Wars, by bullfrog, you know exatly what I mean and how I feel about the crapyness of Sim City 3000.

IF SIM CITY 2000 DID NOT EXIST I would have rated Sim City 3000 31/2-4 stars.

very good and perhaps better than SC2000

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this to be a delightful game. I played it the most on my mother's old HP Celeron 466 with only a small video card so sometimes it ran slowly. On today's computer's I'm sure it won't be a problem though. I loved the older version--Sim City 2000--and this seemed to improve on that (other than the need for a fast computer) and it struck a good balance between being realistic and being too complicated.

I suspect you will really like it and you will be happy you bought it.

Freeze ups??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I love this game, Ive had it for a year now, but there is one thing that has me in the dark, it seems as though the game freezes up on me alot. Sometimes I play for an hour or two before it happens, other times I play for five mintues and it happens. This game takes up a lot of memory and does run a little slow but over all this is a real great game.

Tom

Tired of the Traditional Simulations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Most of the simulations on the market today are about flying a plane or driving a car, but Sim City remains unique as the only true city simulator on the market. There are other games that have city simulation portions, but most of these city simulations are very basic and are part of a larger conquest simulation for example Ceasar 3. Sim City 3000 focuses exculsively on a city, and it has many great features to help you as the mayor solve the daily problems. There is a button that brings up advisors, for roads, education, finance, garbage disposal, and transportation. Each of these advisors will provide advice as problems appear for the city or will appear on the horizon. There are other improvements over Sim City 2000, mayors now have to deal with garbage and neighbors. This game is a welcome update to a great classic, but now that Sim City 3000 Unlimited has been released, I would suggest buying that version because all of the online features can only be accessed with that version.

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