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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.

Minor changes have 'mayor' effect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 46 / 48
Date: January 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ever since the debut of the original simulator eons ago (I remember wasting countless hours on it on my Commodore 128) people have ritualistically purchased the next two versions. Both have been wonderful improvements.

Although the basic format has been preserved from Sim City 2000, many details have been modified. The graphics in Sim City 3000 are much cleaner and detailed than its predecessor's. You also get to control trade with your neighbors, including deals for the sale and purchase of water, electricity, and garbage. That's right, garbage. In Sim City 3000 you must also manage landfills and trash-burning power plants to keep your city clean. You also have much more control over ordinances.

This time around, the game is also much more glitch-free. You should have less trouble building that road you want exactly where you want it. Also, a very disgusting aspect of Sim City 2000, the arcologies, has been removed. The problem with this is, they just vanish if you use the 'import' feature in Sim City 3000 to bring in your old cities. Oh well. Deal with maintaining a real city.

All in all a great game. The improvements aren't obvious at first, but play a bit and you'll see how much more enjoyable it is while still maintaining its classic touch.

My favorite game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 28
Date: November 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I loved SC2000, and when I first got SC3000, I wasn't sure I liked it. But it didn't take long before I was a convert. By comparison, SC2000 is a bore. Yes, it's difficult--sometimes very difficult--to get your city started. And yes, it takes time. That's what's interesting about it. Finding the problems and finding ways to solve them. Is SC3000 perfect? No, there are a few things I'd change, but they're little things and they don't lessen my fun. SC3000 lives permanently in my CDROM for good reason!

One of the few games I always keep on my machine!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 22
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I have been a fan of Sim City since the original version, and have been upgrading and installing on new PC's ever since the first version. This is one of the few games to ever really capture my imagination. It also has proven to be a lot of fun for my kids, as well -- and it is probably teaching them a few things about cities, geography and government at the same time. This version is the best -- some very nice, thoughtful upgrades; much better graphics. It's worth buying if you've never owned it; worth upgrading if you have an earlier version.

Here's what I think. . .

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had got into the "Sim" games by playing SimTower and I loved that game, and it got me into those kinds of games. I saw SC3K in stores and read about it on the back of the box, and it looked neat. I bought it and I was truly excited when I started playing, it was one of the best games that I had ever seen in my life! After that, I had decided to get the SC2K demo, just out of curiosity, to see what that's like. As I was playing the demo of SC2K, I was very disapointed because it was very weak compared to SC3K, and when I saw so many people complaining about this being just like SC2K, I was puzzled. I hated SC2K because: the graphics were weak, I couldn't even get the city started because people wouldn't move in, they're are very little options to control what your city looked like, and the power plants wouldn't even power a tiny little city! I think that SC3K was a wonderful change from SC2K.

Anyways, I thought that SC3K was a very interesting and entertaining game. Not one of those games where you shoot as much people as you can, this a game where yoiu plan out a city and watch it grow, you really had to think while building your city. I have made 3 cities right now that have covered the whole terrain, each with a different theme (I called them Porcelina, New York 2, and El Golde). This game took me into another world, and you really care about your sims and your city. The graphics are spectacular! You can see all of your sims (by the way, sims are people) and you can see cars in traffic jams or alone on the roads. Another great thing is how you can control the way you want your city to look like, unlike in SC2K. I love how you can shape the terrain in your city better than SC2K. I also think that it's very neat how you can put landmarks in your city and you can pick real city terrain to build a city. If your one of those people who like games that you just kill a bunch of people, than this is NOT the game for you, but if you like intelligent games that make you think and entertain you at the same time, than this is the game for you. Don't get SC2K, get SC3K! :)

Best strategy game of the decade

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: November 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Sim City 3000 is the best strategy game I have ever played. The ability to watch your city grow, have detailed charts and graphs and is an amazing feature. I recommend the Prima SC3000 Strategy Guide to master this game, as it is hard to learn how to play.

The trump card of its genre.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 09, 1999
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 3000 improves on everything in the previous version, and adds new elements that in turn bring out one of the most realistic and entertaining strategy games out on the market today.

This Game rules! but it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun and interesting and has alot more things than sim city 2000. 3000 is alot more interactive and a little harder.

it's the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 1999
Author: Amazon User

My faimly has 1 of the sim city's it's just great and also fun for everyone Ihope you go and try to play one of the sim city'sthey are great

Cool game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Best game ever

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