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Easy to play and TOTALLY addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 24
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SIM City 2000 is one of the easiest games on PC to play and it is great fun too. Build a city from scratch and watch it grow. With a loan from the bank you can start your own electronic world and you're in charge BIG-TIME. As your city gets bigger so do the needs of your blossoming population and let me tell you they aren't always to please. They want schools, hospitals, police and fire departments, libraries and museums and they are also greedy for entertainment such as stadiums, parks and zoos. To get the money in you have to make the city pay for itself, so taxes are the order of the day, and cutting costs just part of day-to-day living in a SIM world. You get totally wrapped up in your city, especially as it evolves with time and eventually looks like something out of Star-Trek. The instructions are easy to follow, and the graphics are chunky and colorful. The sound effects are pretty neat too, and you get a choice of disasters to inflict on your city if you are feeling especially nasty. A great game and at a great affordable price too.

Still a great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 17
Date: August 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 2000 has been around for awhile, but don't let that hold you back from buying it, especially at this price. Although not as graphically beautiful as SimCity 3000, it is considerably more playable and almost as detailed. In addition to the ability to design and build your own city, something that can be endlessly fascinating, there are several interesting scenarios good for an hour or two of play. Also, this game is well worth your consideration if you have an older computer. It runs beautifully on everything from a 486-66 up.

If you haven't played SimCity 2000 yet, you owe it to yourself to check out the game I firmly believe was Maxis' finest creation.

Much Better Than Sim City 3000

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: September 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than Sim City 3000. The designers messed up on Sim 3000 by making it into a toy-like cartoon game. Sim 2000 is older but much better and costs less. Still the best Sim City.

"SimCity 2000" is the ultimate!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When I first got this game, I installed it, put my colors up to 256, and started playing. Since I was used to the original "SimCity", I thought the zoning feature was very weird. It took a while for me to realize that you need to put powerlines THROUGH the zone. Well, after I mastered that, I then found out there is a water system. Oh boy! That took about an hour to master that, then I went on to master the bevy of other add-on's. My suggestion is this: when you first get this game, make a city that's just for experiments. Put the year in 2050, and build everything you can. That way you get the idea of what each thing is. Anyways, for those people that want to know how good the game is: graphics are great! They probably aren't as good as "SimCity 3000", but my computer can't handle that (stupid Pentium 1). After you make a huge metropolis, though, there starts to be HUGE buildings, and you can't see through those unless you set the veiwing to a different setting. Learning curve is about like a small cliff; you start off learning and experimenting. The game is difficult at the beginning. However, after you get past the beginning, it's pretty moderate after that. Plane crashes are very annoying. If you have a tall building by your airport, the plane will ram right into it. That's when the option of "no desasters" comes in handy. Sound is really cool because you get to hear your city working! Well, this is a great game! Oh yeah, this edition also comes with a program where you can make your own tile set and city for free.

SimCity 2000

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Simcity 2000 is a simulation game. You play the major of simcity, You have to construct it very well and attract a lot of people and the game never ends. It is very easy to learn and a lot of fun to play. The controls are great and very easy to use. You start the game by first taking a lone from the bank and then start constructing your city by putting roads then placing Power plants and connect them to powerlines that runs through the city for electric power, Water pumps, Water Towers and underground pipes for water supply, Residential zones, Commercial Zones, Industrial zones, Parks, Zoo and Stadium for entertainment, Schools, College, Hospitals, Police stations, Fire stations ect and then issue taxes to the people who come to your city. You can't place them anywhere you want, If you place a residential area near a powerplant no one will come, If you issue a lot of taxes then people will start to leave, The public will protest if you destroy forests, If you destroy lots of buildings A large mob lead by your mother will throw you out of town (play the game and find out what it means), You have to plan very carefully by not spending a lot of money too as there is a limit to how much you can borrow from the bank. Sc2k comes with a screnario editor for creating your own cities and it is very easy to do so. Sc2k is a 2D game but the graphics very bright and clear and the game runs very well. Simcity 2000 is one of the best computer games of all time, It is a must for all simulation / strategy fans.

Development

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: March 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game introduced me at a young age to communial development planning, and money management. This game is, I guess you could say, one to grow with, it takes time and it helps one to learn along the way. I'd also like to add that it helps, especially a younger mind, to experience freedom with their money allowing them to spend it as they choose. If he/she spends it unwisely (go bankrupt) that person will know to become better managers of their money the next time.

A MASTERpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the god-game that really got things going in the games industry. The game where you started with a customizable sandbox, where you could place trees, water, mountains, and then start making a metropolis. You could make a small town, a huge city, or something weird or in between. You never lost, you never won, and the game never ended.

And you didn't care, because it was senselessly addictive.

I first played this game back in freshman year of high school, and was somewhat turned off at first by the very, very steep learning curve. The manual is pretty good, but it simply takes a lot of trial and error and bankruptcy to figure out how to make a good city. Frightfully enough, this could be considered an "educational game." You have to manage a budget, lay out a well-formed city, listen to your citizens' demands, and so forth. Also, if you're a rural guy like me, you learn about things like "on-ramps" which you may have never really seen before.

I played this game obsessively in keyboarding class, study halls, etc., alt-tabbing out whenever the teacher would walk by. It's mesmerizing. The sound and music are peaceful and the animations and graphics are cute.

Aside from the steep learning curve, there are two gripes: one is that once you've filled your city limits and made your city happy enough, there's nothing else to do but deal with disasters. As for disasters, once your city gets really big, you'll have to deal with an ENDLESS barrage of plane crashes. Very annoying.

Then again, there are scenarios to keep things challenging, as well as multiple difficulty levels. And, you can always try to innovate your "perfect" city, and add in railroads, make it more environmentally friendly, add in tourist regions, and so forth.

Buy it, though it will suck your life up. A keeper...however, I haven't played SimCity 3K, and that might be a better choice at this point.

Decent Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty decent game. It is very hard to play at first, but after a few days, you will get the hang of it. You can personalize your city using the Urban Renewal Kit. You can even paint your buidings, and/or you can place cool buildings in your city whenever you want. The only problem that I have with the game is the lack of funding for your city. You have to issue many bonds, which are very hard to pay off. Nevertheless, this game is fun, and I recommend it to everyone. With patience, you'll be building a lot of cities! Remember: Build a power plant first. You can't have a city without electricity, right? Start your city near a lake or river and build a lot of water pumps. Build them on the shores of your body of water. Connect the pumps with power lines from your power plant. Now build some zones. Connect them with roads, power,and water pipes from your water pumps. Now build a hospital, a school,a college, a police station, a fire department, and a jail. You might also want to build stadiums and/or parks. Remember the pipes, roads, and power lines. Fund everything at least 80% and listen to what people have to say about your city so you don't have problems. Good Luck!

Sim City Rocks!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 21
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Great game if you have lots of free time. If you don't, beware; it will suck you in.

SimCity2000: Still the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This was the first game I ever played on a computer (way back in 1994) and am I still playing it. It's that good.

The concept is simple; build a city from the ground up and face all the challenges a real mayor running a city would. It's that simple concept that makes SC2k horribly addictive, especially at first. After you've built your dream city, there's still so much to do...make a rural town, enviromentally sound city, a city built on top a mountain, and so on.

The scenarios are challenging and fun. Even for the best player they can take many tries to master. Everytime you play you learn something new about the game. I also think people fail to mention the wonderful newspaper. It is filled with silly articles that are a laugh (but get the problems of the city across). Read articles on your local cricket team, or new developments in those weird lookin' arcologies.

The included Urban Renewal kit is a blast, and the free-city building is especially fun if you have SimCopter or Streets of SimCity because you can design the wackiest or coolest cities to fly or drive through.

A whole world is at your fingertips with SimCity 2000.

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