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- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Bring your city to life - Create and control the most life-like metropolis you can imagine.
- Form mountains, carve valleys, plant forests and raise oceans. New landscape creation features give you unprecedented control to lay the groundwork for your ultimate city.
- Experience life in the big city - From mellow traffic flow to commuter hell, noontime crowds to nighttime calm, partygoers to troublemakers.
- Touch your creation - Feel the pulse of your city in the most responsive, personal, and satisfying SimCity yet.
- Protect your Sims - Dispatch police cruisers to fight crime, wrestle control of a tornado before it strikes, or cap an erupting volcano threatening your citizens.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The latest sequel to one of the early pioneers of the god-sim genre, Sim City 4 is a polished, challenging evolution of the concept, which doesn't break much new ground. However, it certainly broadens out its challenge, making previously fiddly tasks a lot easier in the process.
As ever, the task is one of balance. You're Mayor of a city, and you need to strike the right mix of commercial, industrial and residential areas, while keeping an eye on finances, the transport system, fire, education, landscape--the list goes on. To its credit, the game is as straightforward or hard as you want it to be, and it's surprisingly easy to get into. While you don't directly control individual buildings and people, the decisions you make have repercussions throughout, and need to be taken with care. After all, agreeing to build a landfill site may bring in some much needed revenue, but it's unlikely to go down well with the locals.
As with its predecessors though, it's in the small details that Sim City 4 really scores. From residents going on the rampage through to full-scale disasters taking hold of your city, the complex game barely gives you a moment to rest. You can zoom in to get very close detail of what people are up to. And in a nice touch, any families created in The Sims can be moved into town. These characters are a real bonus when assessing the needs of your burgeoning city, as they tell you what they like, dislike and will positively not put up with in your metropolis.
The lack of clear goals still haunts the franchise though, and despite the well-thought-through user interface, the casual gamer may still struggle to get to grips with the challenge. However, there are months of gameplay to enjoy if this kind of title is your bag, and Sim City 4 is another excellent addition to an already top-notch franchise. --Simon Brew
Product Description
Right from the start in SimCity 4, players will experience new God-like powers of creation as they lay the groundwork for their cities by moulding mountains, carving valleys, seeding forests and laying rivers. With these new landscape creation features, players can now construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. Unlike earlier games in the series, SimCity 4 cities do not live in isolation from the world, they are part of an entire region.
Each city a player now creates will become part of an ever-growing tapestry of municipalities that, once connected by transportation networks, can share and compete for resources. Depending upon the choices made by a player, this multi-city game play can result in a variety of outcomes within that region. Players can follow a Sim as they go about their life in the city. Players can personalise their Sim and immediately move him into any area and watch him experience life in the city, first hand. Is he or she enjoying a happy existence in an urban utopia or enduring a futile fight for survival in the inner-city? A player's Sim will provide valuable clues to improving the city.
SimCity 4 will allow players to actually touch their handiwork and feel the pulse of their creation. Whether a metropolis is booming with expansion or decaying through neglect, SimCity 4's new simulation engine will give players immediate feedback so they can react to its every need.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful and very big,
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This review is from: SimCity 4 (PC) (Video Game)
This game is just stunning. It looks beautiful, but that beauty comes at a price - if you've only got the minimum specs then I wouldn't bother. I considered my Celeron PC to be a bit of a powerhouse but it still chugs, especially when you're trying to get up close and personal with your city.In common with other reviewers, the economic model is harder to manage: costs escalate much faster than revenues. This doesn't really interfere with gameplay, it just makes it more of a challenge and, I think, more realistic. The model will also please Keynesians out there - if your income is dangerously on the slide, a loan, a few capital projects and a bit of pump-priming works well. Also, be careful about where you put your industrial zones - far away for areas you want to be heavy industry, but (lucrative) high-tech likes to be near rich suburbs, and the surburbanites don't seem to mind. In common with the economic model, the game makes you work before it rewards you with pretty skyscrapers. However, this is more realistic and it's worth the wait - I've just got my first 30 storey+ effort and it's very pretty. The real quantum leap this game makes is the regional mode, where you link your cities up. This not only adds realism, it means you can "theme" your cities - sprawling regional hubs, blue-collar industry towns, beach towns, small rural settlements, all interacting with people commuting between them etc. It's a wonderful game. Buy it, but buy a new computer first.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bringing The Sims and The City to Life!,
This review is from: SimCity 4 (PC) (Video Game)
The Sim City series just gets better and better. The first thing that will strike you is the high quality of detail that has gone into every single building. So much so you can even see the little park benches on the roofs of skyscrappers. Another major improvement is the automatic road building tool which can be both useful and annoying if you don't want straight roads but overall it is a great tool to have. Other little features include the option to import your sims into the city you have just created. This brings you closer to what you sim city people want. Building your city is also harder as money is quite hard to get but it soon starts to leave the mayors pockets so look out for that. As always Sim City is one of thoes games that you can put away for months and get it back out again and enjoy it time and time again. Overall a must for The Sims and Sim City fans alike!
54 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Addictive, Fun, Rewarding! Sim City 4...,
This review is from: SimCity 4 (PC) (Video Game)
First of all, You NEED a very beefy PC to play this game well and lots of MEMORY. Sim City 4 is the 4th installment from the series of great games series. It is 4 times better in everything this time around though! Graphics are Superb, astounding level of detail! You can zoom right out and see your sprawling metroplois or little town and watch fireworks explode in a glittering colourfull site. You can zoom right down and see the people walking on the sidewalks, the clothesline in the backyards, to the cars piling up in rush hour traffic. The level of details on the buildings, roads, mail boxes streetlamps is breathtaking you could spend hours just looking at all the detail. Then spend another few hours once it's gone into NIGHT TIME mode, then the city really comes alive! With musems search lights lighting up the sky. Now there is NO DIFICULTY levels in Sim City, so be warned un-expierenced players will find it hard. But as long as you start up small it'll be ok! You do feel like you're running your own city when things really pick up! You can manage your schools' budgets, or have them outside with their boards on stirke! It takes a lot of figuring out, but once you've got a little city running it's very rewarding! You can really feel it's alive as you watch people and cars and everything going on in it. This game is definatly worth the money, it includes the expansion pack with lots of added bonuses. A very good quality game that'll bring you hours of enjoyment! And with the great online site offering updates, NEW buildings to import into your game and a city exchange it simply doesn't get any better!
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