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SimCity 4 Rush Hour

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic because you can complete the new 'U-Drive It' missions and you can easily get Hi-Rises like 'Sheehy Condos' and 'Butts Condos' and 'Hi-Rise Tenement'. There is a cheat 'Dollyllama' that turns the advisors into Llamas!!!

What Simcity 4 brings on?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 34
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Surfing the Net, I see that Maxis is now preparing to launch Simcity 4: Rush Hour Expansion Pack. I wonder what Maxis bring on with an expansion of a Game {Simcity 4}, if only the game without expansions to add-on Simcity 4 is whole fun and enjoyable?
I am giving 4 stars not for the Expansion because still yet not have been published, but the expactations that Expansion Pack is going to add to the Game itself.

Best Game Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: February 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was the coolest game ever better than SimCity 4 was when it first came out.This expansion pack has more to offer and the graphics on this game is unbelievable.A must buy game if your a person like me that likes city building.

Corrects many of the mistakes of the original Simcity 4!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Simcity 4 game had several mistakes that I felt kind of stymied the game a bit. The first was, where are the avenues (four lane divided roads) because I mean, You can't just build a New York CIty on just mere two lane streets or roads. Another thing was the subways and transportation system which often sat neglected and unused even on highly congested intersections.

This Expansion Pack corrects many of those mistakes that were on the older version of SC 4. Not only that, but there are a whole truckload of new stuff that comes iwth this expansion. Many of them are just amazing.

You can now building wide avenues with medians! Why could'ne one be able to build Cicero Ave. or North Ave. on the older one? You can now do all that on this newest expansion pack. You can also choose between either the ground freeway (Think the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago), or an elevated freeway (Think the Tri-State Tollway in Chicago as well) and you can even add pay tolls if you're in dire need of some extra simoleons! One of hte greatest blessings too is that you can build safe interchanges where freeways terminate or transition into avenues. That was a major problem with the older SC 4 game where I found a freeway I built dangling with a cliffhanging ending where it looked like cars had to be lifted by cranes to get on and crash in fireballs when driving off the edge. Basically, the freeway terminals looked more like daredevil stunts waiting to happen. That is no more on the Simcity 4 Rush HOur Expansion Pack!

Other things in included are monorail for better transportaion, elevated rail, elevated rail to subway, larger civic buildings. You also get new disasters, new music and a much better scope on the already HUGE Simcity 4 world. There is one new song in particular which is absolutely haunting and so breathtaking that it almost deserves to be released on CD to listen to on a CD-Player or headphones! Amazing!

This game requires the older Simcity 4 game so it's safe to say that this is no cash-in on buyers unlike what they do with movies or CDs (X-Men 1.5 was a big cash-in joke) and in fact was a very smart move on Maxis' part. THere are still some flaws on the newer edition that perhaps a second Expansion Pack may correct in the future but for now "Rush Hour" is an absolute blessing on my part because it fixes so many of the problems that plagued Simcity 4. Please buy this if you already have the original game. This will make the game feel so much more realistic, and almost completely different altogether in a really spellbinding way! You will not be dissapointed!

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!!!!!!

This game is so coooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

This game is so much fun!!!!!!!!! I wish it would have come out earlier. My favorite thing is the U-Drive it feature. You can drive many different kinds of trains, plains, cars, and boats!!!
I love to drive my Sim around town andgo to other Sims houses!!!
I still wish the sims could get married,and live in a house together.!!! I don't have The Sims, but hope to get it for my B-day.Then I can get more Sims in my City!!!!!! I you liked Simcity3000 Unlimited (I did) then get this game!! The Deluxe game is much cheaper depending on where you shop so shop around!!!

They will gladly take your money...again.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: January 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Since the makers of the original SimCity 4 never actually fully patched that version, they tell you to buy Rush Hour to solve the issues existing with that main version. Throwing in a few additions that could have been made available for download, you must buy this expansion in order for the game to even work with ANY future elements they may provide. Newer building tools or the rare new structure will simply not work with the stand alone version.
But the "situation" even goes much deeper than that-
Problems were not only not fixed, but were actually HIDDEN by the game designers. Observant players of the original SC4 would notice cars driving in circles or driving a highway,leaving and re-entering it at each exit! With Rush Hour, they merely lowered the amount of time automobiles would be displayed so players would think there are no problems. Very sneaky Maxis! Many gamers are none the wiser. It is truly amazing the game developers could get away with such practices... and laugh all the way to the bank.

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.

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.

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.

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