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A blast, but not open-ended enough.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed playing SC3K quite a bit. Much more, in fact, than any of the previous SimCity games. This one comes with an almost-infinitely versatile building editor and a full-featured scenario editor. I had a ball playing around with the building editor and making obscenely-shaped buildings... but that's just me. The scenarios are really interesting... this time taking (very real-looking) cities around the world and giving them various disasters. There are even landmarks you can put into your own town! Ever wanted to see what the Eiffel Tower would look like next to the Chrysler Building? Now's your chance!

The only real problem I had was that, after the first couple hundred years, nothing particularly special seems to happen. I played very far into the game, and all I could do was watch my city change. While even that was fun, and speaks volumes about the craftsmanship of the game (how many other games could you just watch for hours without wanting or needing to interact?), Most players might not take a liking to it.

If you like Sim games, pick it up and give it a shot. You could do much, much worse than SimCity 3000.

Can't get up from my computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: July 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The best way to rate a game is by how long you will sit and play it. At least for me that is the case. When five hours goes by like nothing and you still are not tired of playing the game, you know you are hooked. This game is in one word awesome. It is a lot more challenging to use than the previous games that I have played. I highly recomend this game to anyone. It is really fun.

Fun, but get 3,000 regular

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, you just ordered it off of Amazon.com, it came in the mail today, and ten minutes ago you put the Sim City 3000 Unlimited Into your disk drive. Arcitect Plus? What's that? Who cares? You start to play the game. The amazing graphics stun you when you start. This is nothing like 2000.You sit, starring into your computer screen, experementing, and abussing the trust your people have in you. After about five hours your eyes are to sore from playing, and you save your game and quit. This cycle continues for a week. And at school, you fing yourself day dreaming about the games possibilitys.

That's me. And belive me I know what I'm talking about. I must of played Sim City 3000 Unlim. For at least 500 hours now. And when my science teacher asked me if I would be an aid for her summer school class that was about playing Sim City 3000 Unlimited, I jumped at the chance. However, we ended up ussing reagular 3000. And that is the problem with 3000 Unlimited There is a very small difference between 3000, and 3000 Unlimited.

So save yourself a few bucks, and get regular Sim City 3000.

Lots of fun, but you'd better have a fast computer.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: August 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I adore SimCity 3000, but I have to admit it can be a frustrating experience on a slower machine. I have a Pentium 233MMX, which admittedly is old, but still well within the System Requirements stated by Electronic Arts. Unfortunately, even with all the animations and processor-hogging options turned off, the game still runs slowly as the city expands. I'm sure it's great on a PII or faster, but sadly the old Pentiums just don't cut it. If you've got a faster machine you'll love it, but people with older machines might want to stick with older versions of SimCity until they upgrade.

Oh yea... city building at it's best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 24
Date: July 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you played SimCity 3000, the you'll be familiar with this layout, since it's pretty much an upgrade to that game. New maps, landmarks, buildings, rewards... more of everything! These games are great.. and this one is the best so far! The create your own scenario and building editors are top notch, and there is a wonderful online community to go alone with this game. There's all kinds of cool stuff to be downloaded online... BUY THIS GAME!

Fun game, but have a top-line computer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: August 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a Pentium 233, and this game runs fine on it, up until I grow my cities to around 100,000 or so. After that, it pretty much crashes. Also, Electronic Arts needs to, in the next version, make it so users can edit the real city terrain (i.e. the Seattle map is WAY TOO SMALL to build on) and also make it so one can build on diagonals rather than strictly with right angles and also build on hills. Make it more like real life.

SimCity 3000 Unlimited - Unlimited Building Possibilities

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 3000 Unlimited is one of the few games that I really love to play over and over again. It enables the player to build the city of their dreams utilizing famous real-life city landmarks and buildings. You may use these buildings and incorporate them into your dream city. The game can also be upgraded from the Maxis downloads page where players can download new building landmarks, download player custom built buildings, or to simply create their own stylish building to add into their cities. The graphics are great and the buildings are each detailed. You can now zoom in 3 times as close than before with SimCity 2000. Cars and people are easily noticeable at such zoom magnifications. The only problems I experienced when playing this game was that even with a killer computer system and over 1 gig of memory, the gameplay seems to lag when you scroll through a large city that you built. I believe this may be true in all Maxis games that involves building Sims or large populations such as cities and theme parks. Nonetheless, this game is still considered a favorite among other games I have in my library of games.
Gameplay = 9/10
Graphics = 7/10
Sound = 8/10
Value = 8/10

You are the mayor, and your city needs you!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: July 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Not too long ago I had no idea what in the world a sim game was. I've never been into these type of games, such as world building or city building, but even if you're not into that type of stuff, this game will still be fun and incredibly entertaining no matter what.
You create your own city. You name it, you decide the name of yourself, and you build stuff, basicly. It's an amazing spectacle to see your city build right before you're eyes, as soon as you have zoned areas. You can select which time periods you wish to set it in, and each time period is different.
You can put everything from schools, subways, railroads, casinos, and even energy efficient powerplants in your city. Each thing that you put in your city has to be put a certain place. You have to put water pipes in your city. You have to provide a well balanced education system for the students and for the city. You have to make sure you never, and I mean never take out too many loans at once, or else you can get fired really easily if you're high in budget.
You can see homes, buildings, and even farms build right in front of your eyes.
If you zoom in real close, you can see little people, (Reffered to as "Sims" of course) Walk on the streets. I've even seen Hobo's, mothers with baby carriages, and a bunch of other weird sims walk the streets.
Also, as a way to vent your frustration if you have any with the game, you can create your own natural, man made, and just flat our bizzare disasters. You can have a horde of martians attack your city and suck your buildings up, you can send about ten tornadoes in your city, and plus you can create earthquakes, fires, and tornadoes, just by pressing where it says "Create disaster."
This game is so interactive with everything in so many ways. It's so incredibly fun and advanced that it is definately worth replaying, since you can't just do everything in one city on the first city that you create. Unfortunately, some parts are complicated and it takes a while to understand certain things.
Anyways, get this game, even if you like games or not. This is truly spectacular, and worth the money!

Minor Flaw, Major Perfection

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought Sim City 3000 Unlimited and have been very impressed with everything about it. The graphics aren't as good as SC4, but this game is not as boring, and the graphics are great for a sim game.

There is one flaw that gets a little bit annoying and that would be that even with the newest systems, if your city gets to large the game will start to run slowly, and in the case of my computer it will close out all together and give you an error messege that there was not enough virtual memory (whatever that is) to run the game. It takes a lot of it on any computer.

The best thing in this game is how you have the power to do anything you want, (hence the name unlimited). The building architect program included is a great feature when you want a certain kind of building in your town that you don't already have.

I strongly suggest this game for any Sim City Fans like me, but beware of the large city flaw.

I love it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: December 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Before recieving this game for Christmas, I read dueling reviews on how this program responds to a particular computer. I personally have no problem with the speed. It's really fast on my 368mb ram, 1.3 ghz., windows xp computer. I've encountered no problems with it. This program is so much fun. its easier to control than simcity 2000 because there are advisors that tell you the problem. I also think that the graphics are a whole lot better. You can actually see what is going on. Even though I have had trouble mking my needed money, I think that this is a challenging game and you need to think globally in order to make the best decisons for what to do with the money you have. I also think that its really cool to build landmarks, like I built a world trade center memorial, the eiffel tower, the united nations and the bank of china in one city. If you like designing and running a city, this is a great game for you. I would recommend that your processor is rather fast, however, so you don't encounter problems.

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