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SimCity4 on Intel Macs?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A great educational and experimental game! Recommended for everyone! Kids will learn about how government and economy work! Adults will be frustrated that their brilliant strategies in SimCity can't be implemented into the real world! If you're wondering if you should buy it, do it!

For those who have Intel Macs... Does SimCity 4 for Mac work on the new processors?

Great game - for a select few

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love this game.

It brings out the best of the old game I played on my Mac Plus. At the same time, it adds great detail and motion that the old Macs could never acheive.

It keeps the play simple, which is great because I have never been able to keep up with games that demand multiple button play. Just a few keys and the mouse. It also manages to modernize and add some more options without the need for the above mentioned extra button work.

Now the bad news,

The box says it can be used with a G4 700MHz Mac or above. Most reviews and my experience say that it takes more power to enjoy the game. The box actually recommends a G5 iMac or PowerMac. I would agree, I have no problem with the game, but I am running a G5 PowerMac.

The problem with this is that most people with a high-end G4 PowerMac or above that can use this game have already upgraded to OS 10.5 Leopard. And this game will not work on 10.5 Leopard. You must use 10.3 or 10.4, I had to load 10.3 on an external HD. But not everybody has the time, money or know-how to do this.

Please also note that this is not a Universal Binary game, so it will not work on any Intel-based Macs of any kind.

Jury still out

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 30
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As this item was purchased as a gift, I can only guess that it was fun and received a high rating.
The receipt of this item was in a timely fashion and came in time for me to give it.
Unfortunately other attempts at purchasing items were not so favorable and so the jury
is still out.
On the whole though, Amazon reliability has been good and it looks as though I will continue
buying through you until I learn otherwise.

Alright

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's pretty good, but it could use some work, particularly the driving aspect of the game. It sort of seems that a lot of the update features are gimmicks; driving loses its fun quickly. Honestly, the game feels empty of challenge and quickly becomes uninteresting, when you start playing it RIGHT. It's the failing aspect of many games, when you're challenged to use the best strategy, and when it does it's not fun any more.

BORING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 29
Date: December 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought the first Sim City several years ago and I loved it. I have been buying later versions, but have been getting more and more dissatified. The problem is that I never liked Sim City in the manner it was always inteneded. When I a kid, I loved construction toys. That is how I used the original Sim City. I used a cheat which gave me all the $$$ I needed and turned off disasters. I just wanted to build cities. I had no interest in it as a game being mayor. The best sim city 4 cheat I found so far is for an extra $1000.0. Doesn't really do it for me. As a game it is just boring.

Love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I own it for Mac and PC. That's how much I like it.

Its ok

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I thought it would be more fun than this. I was wrong. I thought I could make my own buildings, etc. But that is not true. Hour & hours of frustration. I put the game away. I couldn't even figure out how to add the city to my Sims 2 game that everyone brags about:(

fun, but unplayable

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a blast at first, and being a big fan of the previous Sim City games I was really impressed with the content. And then my city grew and the game got slower. And slower. By the time I hit 150,000 citizens I had to turn down all of the graphics to the bare minimum just to get the game to do anything. And then I had to turn the sound off because it was irritating to hear the helicopters over the city batting away endlessly (I think it's an unfixed glitch.) And as I neared 200,000 citizens I gave up. The game had bogged down to a freeze-frame that changes every ten seconds. Yay!
Now I'm on a brand new iMac (intel-based) and didn't think it'd have trouble like this, but something must have gone wrong in the crossover from PC to Mac to Intel-Mac, because this game is pretty much worthless to me at this point. And that makes me sad, because it was fun for a few hours. Even after searching and digging for patches (which are not easy to find and the game's website/help is not set up well either) it still stinks.

I'll give it two stars for potential, but if you're on a new iMac don't bother with this one.

I like it but

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have found that there are some issues with graphic and sound on my Macbook Pro.

SO-SO

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game can get repetitve if you play it to much, it can SUCK if you run out of money, so cheat, make sure no windows are open and nothing is selected, and hold down at the same time shift+control+option/alt+command and a box will apear in the top-left area of the screen. use the code "weaknesspays" to increase you money amount (I you should cheat when the game paused) to get all gifts type in "you don't deserve it".

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