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excellent city and region simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: July 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my first Sim game, and I love it. There are three modes to play in: in God Mode, you terraform the region, adding cliffs or valleys, flattening shores, planting forests, etc; in Mayor mode, you will zone areas, add utilities and services, and receive input from dozens of informative graphs, data and advisors; in MySim mode you can create individuals and then name them, give them a place to live and a car to drive, etc.

You can run your simulation in three speeds, and there are hundreds of items and options for you to use -- bridges, stadia, landmarks, parks, schools, monorails, industry, agriculture, museums and many more.

There are also several tutorials that show you how to get started, make money, develop a big city, or use the included Rush Hour expansion pack, which lets you get in the driver's seat of buses, garbage trucks, traffic helicopters, ferry boats, --any vehicle that is operating in your city! Just be careful -- it is EASY to spend hours and hours building your city with as much complexity as you care for. Excellent game, implemented very well.

I have had no problems at all with installation or performance running the game on an iMac G4.

Can't stop playing this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 27
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game, and sure the main idea is set on a specific principle, regarding that this is a computer game, yet you don't kill anyone here and you don't go to different levels, and I love my crazy games, yet this one gives ms me the satisfaction of making something while I play rather than destroying it.

Right of the bat, I must say I love the music, at times I leave the city running and growing on the slow speed, just so that I can listen to the jazzy cool tunes. I have been a fan of anything that has to do with the Sims since I was in 7th grade when I discovered Sim City 2000 on a computer in my computer class, yes in 7th grade. I'm almost 25 now and I am still crazy about the Maxis ideology behind the city games, as this grew and evolved into a marvelous game. I seriously don't know how they can improve this, because the graphics are phenomenal, you get to sculpt your land, and you can seriously choose from a whole globe of land to play on. You can plant your trees and wild animals, and then the zones, buildings, the natural disasters, the people who need you, your taxes, community programs, ordinances, and really fun decisions on where to plop your park, and this time you can choose from a huge variety of building and entertainment centers for your Sims.

I this game takes a bit to get used to and figure out how to play wile actually making money instead of spending them, and they sure give you enough at the beginning, and while you can Google for cheat codes, it's really fun to roll up my sleeves and really get my brain pumping while I manage my city. I love how many things I can be in charge of, the style of the buildings, where I want a farm with fruitful trees and orchards, what neighborhood I want the bus to stop in, what schools and museums I want resting in the shade provided by so many kinds of tress I can choose from, and so on.
I love this as it's a game you can play forever, I wonder how old I can grow my city to be and how I can sculpt it to perfection. Really fun game with gorgeous graphics, and the zoom button is amazing, you can get down to the street levels you build yourself and observe, just like watching ants on the ant hill, but 10000 times more fun!

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.

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.

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?

Best Sim City Simulation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition you get the original Sim City 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack together.

In this game you can build, run, and manage your very own city.

There are three modes to play from:

God Mode
Mayor Mode
My Sim Mode

In Gode mode you can do anything that is all natural. Create mountains, valleys, ect. Plant the land with trees and animals that roam, graze, and stampede. You can create disasters, such as meteor, volcano, tornado, robot attack, ect. In other words, you create the circle of life.

In Mayor mode, you pick a city name, and your name, and then you begin to build zones: Commercial, residential, and industrial. They soon build up by them selves. There are businees deals such as a casino; which helps raises monthly profit for your city. You can also build Research Centers, resort hotels, ect. Grow the population and build to the sky.

In My Sim Mode, you can pick from a a variety of sims, choose their names, and move them into a home. You can deside where they work, and what car they drive. You can even balance their wealth. Dispatch them to work or to the park, which ever place you want. Also, you can do misssions with cars, air planes, helicopters, and boats. Shoot missles from tanks and blow up buildings, or take kids to school. If you are sucsessful, you get rewards.

I recomend this game if you like Sim games, or if you like politics. (You might want to be at least 9, or you probably will not understand it) This game is complete wtih tutorials and a booklet.

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.

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:(

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.

decent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I started playing this game in February and played for about 2 weeks when I no longer could keep my patience with the atrocious lack of performance. This game should not have been released or the requirements for your system should have been higher. The recommended 256 mb RAM and 32 mb on the graphics card are not sufficient to build a region of interconnected cities, which is the major new feature of this game compared to previous versions.

Yes, the graphics are better, the interface is somewhat improved, but the poor performance and some tragic changes for the worse makes this game a big disappointment.

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