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Same as SimCity 3000, don't waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 63 / 70
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Basically this is a repackaged version of Sim City 3000. I found it annoying that you pay the price for a repeat. Yes you get the building architect and all, but you can download that from the Sim City site for free! The "new disasters" are silly, especially the whirlpool. The aspect of this expansion that I did like was the new asian and european building sets.

If you have Sim City 3000, don't bother with Unlimited. It is a waste of money unless you want to pay the price for the new building sets.

I have one of the new powerful computers and the unlimted version slows down big time once cities get large. You have to turn off the music and traffic to make the thing go at a decent pace.

The "new" scenarios are silly and very easy to master. Not challenging at all.

So, if you have Sim City 3000, don't waste your money

Save your money! Looks like Maxis squeezed me again!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 23
Date: July 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let me first say, I love Sim City 2000 and 3000. I am one of those guys who waited for 6 years for 3000 to come out. And it was...ok, not great but ok. Maxis had promised all kinds of things like a transportation package that would let you build monorails...where is it? Another thing, this is the 3rd installment-excuse me, 4th installment, and you still see the same buildings over and over again in your city? Oh come on! If you have Sim City 3000, dont spend money on this. Aside from the building creator that you can download and buildings you can also get from others, there really isnt anything new here worth plunking down $. Thumbs down!

Don't get If you have Windows XP!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased the game and I can't get It to install. I went to EA tech support. No help there. I Googled for tech support. Did everything they said to do. Still won't install. Save your money for SimCity 4. I hope that one works. I wish I had known before I bought this.

Unlimited ? Except for system requirements !!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: March 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Simcity 3000 unlimited does NOT support Windows 2000, Me, NT.
Someone still running Windows 95 or Windows 98 interested by my copy ? Mr Flintstone, maybe ?

Not even close to worth the money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First, this is not a "NEW" game, it is an upgrade for Sim City 3000. There is no new elements to this game, just some new features and scenarios for the original 3000. Second, and more importantly, the game runs "SLOWWWWWWW." Even on a PIII 500MHZ w/ 256MB of RAM, once you have a population of over 1 million, the games starts to creep along at a snails pace. The new scenarios and editing tools are cool, but defenitly not worth purchasing a whole new game.

(...)this is the worst game I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 25
Date: December 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have a lot of PC Games I enjoy: Starcraft, Red Alert 2, and even the Sims is kinda fun. I bought Sim City 3K because everyone praises it so vigorously. I keep hearing how well Sim City 3K is selling, and I read reviews on amazon giving it 5 stars. Unfortunately, after buying the game rather cheap, I was absolutely disgusted by the lack of fun running rampant throughout the whole game. I invested about 10 hours into it, and I couldn't stop my city from going into debt for the life of me. I then used the cheat codes, a common practice I've noticed in Maxis games where you want to progress in under 500 hours. Even with the code I still found myself horribly bored. Do you actually enjoy putting down grids of water pipes for hours? Is spending hours putting powerlines up and connecting them to power stations fun?? What am I missing? Even the 5 whole mass desruction scenes are boring after watching them about twice. This game is like the king without his clothes. Everyone says they love it, but all I see is a naked fat useless game. Unless you're a complete architect loving freak, I don't undertsand why anyone could possibly enjoy this game and not be under the influence of mass narcotics. Where is the fun part? Can anyone tell me!?!? Please?!?!?!?

Do yourself a favor and never buy this game, just download a free minesweeper or solitaire. You'll have so much more fun.

This game is buggy. SimCity 2000 was a better game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has problems crashing. The game is unstable. The user interface is poor in many places. For example, your city can throw a parade for you. It is cute the first time it happens, but the game forces you to wait through the whole parade for several minutes. There is no option to end the parade early. It is difficulty to place certain features in your city.

Read alt.games.simcity.3000 for a week and you'll see that many other people have the same problem.

Addicting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! You get to be the mayer of your own created city. Many probelms accure and you run out of money fast. The only thing that puts this sown to 4 stars, is it acn be frustrating and is VERY HARD to get started. It is much easier to use a starter town (recomendation if you are planning on buying this game.)

General Info

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Do not get this game! The game has poor graphics, bad gameplay and the game quickly becomes tiresome. The scenarios are not very good at all. They are either extremely easy or almost impossible. There is also no guide that even vaguely explains how to work the game. It took me a while to learn how to just get water to the houses. The games tutorial only teaches you things if you were already very good at the game, opposed to being just a begginer.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 52
Date: January 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game stunk, it destroyed my computer and im not joking!b It destroyed my brand new not only that i called maxis for a replacement computer and it has been a month and they still havent called me back. Now i lost my 1,000+ computer and cant do anything.

I REALLY RATED IT= 0STARS!
COMMON DO YOU WANT TO LOOSE YOUR BRAND NEW COMPUTER!

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