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Great product. But get Simcity 4 deluxe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: October 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The best expansion pack for a game.

And my advice for your is to get Simcity 4 deluxe that includes the expantion pack for the same price.

Making SimCity 4...EXCITING

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, to start off, i would like to say, if you liked simcity 4, you will definetly like this game.
for all of u people who thought that it was too hard to make your sims happy in the origional simcity 4. This game really helps Giving SimCity 4 the much needed improvments. THese include: Wide Avenues, making it easier and more effiecent for ur sims to cummute. Besides all the other transportation helpers (Elevated freeway etc. Elevated railway and one-way streets) The game also improves on past objects (such as the police stations) making them have more capasity for ur sims and making it much easier to expand to a metropolis.
On top of having the "make ur own sims and place them whereever u want"(which by the way they added more detail to that) they also added a "U drive it" missions. In this u get to drive, fly, boat, destroy, or chase ur way into ur sims arms. If u are able to complete this mission on time, u are rewarded higher mayor rating, or even money and prizes. But if not, you have ur rating decreased, leaving u in shame. Which now brings me to my only complant about this game. I dont know about u but the Udrive it missions seem very hard to control and/or navigate.
Over all this game is a very good expansion mostly recommended to people who r having a hard time with the reagular SIMCITY 4. But if not, still a great game 2 own.

by the way, if u have a very slow CD reader or grafic card, the game is VERY slow, but its great improvments cover up 4 it.
PS: it requires a 32MB Video Card, yet i have a 16MB card and it still works......................................o well
GREAT GAME!

All the bells, whistles, and sirens a city should have!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After purchasing SimCity 4 and hearing of the Rush Hour expansion, I didn't know what to expect--after all, I just payed $40 for the stand alone version. Yet, to my surprise, RH added a tremendous ammount of gameplay and realism that wasn't available with SimCity 4. While the U-Drive it features are alright, I am extremely impressed with the tremendous addition of ground level highways, (I wanted these for a while now) Chicago-style "el" lines, monorails, and a new slew of roadway tools. Mayors should also take note of the new building sets, greatly improved gameplay performace, and more realistic play. Rush Hour is more than a simple add-on, it's a sequel to a great game.

Best Game Yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For the majority of those who own SimCity 4, and are thinking about this as the same old things, you will be absoloutely fooled! This completes SimCity 4. Trust me, everyone out there, that SimCity 4 is not complete with Rush Hour, like a Pie without Sauce!

The first thing is that Maxis have now implemented difficulty levels. I, and many other people, may have found the original SimCity too difficult. There are three cool new difficulty levels! You can play Easy, Medium, or Hard mode. In the 'Easy' mode, you start out with $500,000 and everything is so easy to manage!

I have not played the 'Medium' level, therefore I do not know what it is like, and its aspects, yet I have heard some talk about it. It turns out that the 'Medium' level is sort of in between the other two playing levels.

In the 'Hard' mode, you start out with $100,000, and it is much more complex. In the 'Hard' mode, things are hard to control, but there is a benefit from playing in this mode. The benefit is the fact that those annoying advisors will just shut their holes for a change! This is a huge benefit from the original SimCity.

The modes also helped me make larger cities. In SimCity 4, it was impossible to make a town of 10,000 Sims without falling into debt. Nah, not in Rush Hour, it turns out.

The best thing is yet to come. But, you can be a little personal by adding nametags to personalize your city. You click on any location with the 'Label' tool and type in what you want in the bar. You then press 'Accept' and it appears. If you do not want to view your labels, you can always go to the Label panel and click 'Off' fotr viewing nametags.

Another huge leap foward is that Maxis have created new buildings. There are heaps of varieties of new buildings to choose from. Maxis have now added heaps of new buildings in different categories. There are two new Police Stations, a cool new Fire Station, Large Elementary and High Schools, and heaps of new civic structures and services.

The new added feature everyone is going on about is the 'U-Drive It Missions'. I'm sorry to admit I haven't actually tried the missions yet, I just accept the 'Free Drive'.

The thing you've been waiting for folks, is now coming. You now get unlimited Transportation options! Highway Intersections are now that simple to place, you can build Elevated Rails, Rail Stations, Monorails, Subways, and more! The best things is the fact that Highways can now transitions into Avenues, which can transition into One-Way Roads. Avenues were needed to handle extra traffic.

There is only one weakness in the game, and I am going to admit that now. I'm sorry to say, my Sims don't use their brains and use the Avenues I have provided them with, therefore you end up seeing abandoned buildings all across the city just because they didn't use their brains and took the streets to work! Maxis need to fix that bug, and I really mean it!

Overall, this Expansion Pack was essential to fix the many problems with SimCity 4, and once again, Maxis have proven themselves successful! I think they should continue on with the ever-popular SimCity series which has been a success for 17 years now, before I was even born! This game is so awesome!! I recommend it to all you folks who have a Creative mind, just like me! I say Rush Hour is best of all the Sim series!

Perhaps the most dissapointing part of the Rush Hour experience was when my silly little sister cracked the disc, claiming that she didn't even touch it! I have now had to order another copy which is on the way. Even my brother has fights over who's turn it is to play this; he loves the game also.

(P.S.: Here are some cheats, that came in handy for me-
Ctrl+X, then a bar will appear at the top of the screen. Type in one of the following-
Hellomynameis- Change Mayor Name
Whereufrom- Change City Name
Howdryiam- Get rid of Water Requirement
Fightthepower- Get rid of Power Requirement
Dollyllama- Turns Advisors to Llamas
Weaknesspays- $1000)

(Warning: Never use cheats in the beginning of the game, otherwise your city will never develop)

(My biggest city so far is called White Hills, has Hi-Rises, and a population of 124,118 Sims)

addictingly fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Just like Sim City 4, this is fun and addicting. I like all the improvements but some things are iffy. In the U-Drive it mode, the steering features I find hard to control the vechicles. I love the missions. I love the added transportation modes(monorails, els, etc.)

I like the fact you can control your Sims more. This was a 1000% improvement. Cause in Sim City 4 the Sims were boring. They didn't go anywhere.

I do still wish skyscrapers built up quicker and Sims responded better to additions in the city.

This game is a definite must have for anyone with Sim City 4.

Essential for any Sim City 4 user!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: June 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, the instruction book included is a lot more detailed about how to do everything and how items effect your city. That alone is a major plus.
There are more items to build, like a large elementary school and large water pump. Transportation tools are a lot better, including the road query, which gives inside info on how your sims get around, road by road, house by house.
Of course, the big selling feature is the drive around feature, which inludes missions and free drive. It is quite fun to drive around your own city! (You can use tanks, mayor's car, school bus, ice cream truck, even planes and boats)
All in all, the other reviews give good detail on what is included. It's a nice upgrade to sim city, although it was sort of disappointing to find some features lacking in the original release. For a little extra, you can get everything missing and more (see other reviews, the give a better description)

Here we go again.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 35
Date: June 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Why a expansion to Sim City you ask.In one word money and Electronic Arts has the corner market on making it.Most of the stuff in Rush Hour should of been in the game but they left it out for a expansion.So if you want a better city for your sims then buy it and there might be a patch you will have to wait for.

SimCity 4--Great FUN (A Lot Of Fun)!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack is an exceptional additon to SimCity 4. The Expansion Pack makes the game more detailed and more fun to play. Numerous modes of transportation is included giving the choice of a monorail, ferry, ground level highways, and other choices. You can see how the traffic flows in the morning and evening rush, and you can see how your sims are getting around with the transportation query tool. You can choose where your sims will work and what car they drive, if you want them to drive. Other features include the capabilities of driving a car, a bus, flying a helicopter, and other types of vehicles, as well. It is a big step forward from prior gaming experience with SimCity 4 and SimCity 3000 Unlimited. There is so much to build and create in this game when building your own city, and this game afford so much opportunity to do more.

Maxis has done a wonderful job at developing the Expansion Pack. It has made playing SimCity 4 much more user friendly and more interesting. Anyone who has played any version of SimCity will really like this one. I highly recommend this game for anyone who loves a challenge of building a city and having control of it.

Joy.

god like powers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game since GTA. The best thing to do is name streets and roads and neighborhoods and districts. I wish you could make a ethnic neighborhood then it would be really fun. You can make suburbs like the big city can be very blue collar and crime ridden and bad schools and one suburb can be white collar with mansions and excellent schools depending on what neighborhood you pay most attention to, just one of the best games ever made.

Coool Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is so cool. I love the U-drive it feature!!!! It is a must have for any Simity4 fan!!!!!!

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