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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My Favourite Game, 6 Jul 2005
Sim City 4 my favourite game, which got even better with the Rush Hour Expansion Pack. The ability to drive vehicles not only adds to the fun, it allows you to assess your transportation network and do missions, which result in money, major rating boost, or a new building. It is possible to get all the rewards from these so called "U-Drive-it" missions, so you don't have to wait until your in debt to get the army base for example.There is now a useful tool called the Route Query. It is found just below the Query button, and allows you to see where all the inhabitants of a building are going to work, or where all the workers of a business are coming from. This is useful to find out what are your busiest roads i.e. ones that need upgrading. The new roads are welcome as well. Avenues are basically double roads, which can be connected to roads and streets. They also offer high speeds, relaxing congestion. One way roads are the same size as roads but only allow traffic to flow in one direction. By replacing all your roads with one way ones, you may make U-Drive-it missions a little more complex, but they really serve transport problems. You can place two facing opposite directions next to each other, creating an effective Avenue (which costs 10 times less than an avenue to maintain and only twice the price of a normal road) The My Sim mode also has an upgrade. Now you can drive the sims car if you want, and change it to any car equal to or below their wealth rating. In the original Sim City 4, Agriculture did not pay taxes and you couldn't adjust taxes based on wealth of businesses. Now you can. By increasing taxes, you reduce demand, so you can get rid of Dirty Industry if you want and if you can afford it, while still having Manufacturing and High Tech Industry. All in all, I believe this is the best game I have played. Building many cities may seem to be repetitive, but there are millions of possible city layouts and ideas for God Mode. No two cities are the same. It is the longest lasting game i have played. Maxis makes open-ended games, and this is no exception. But beware, this is very addictive. You will go into the game saying "I'll start an new city, and i'll leave it once i've got all my zoned areas filled." Before you know it, you will be the maker of a thriving metropolis. Where did the time go?
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