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Lucifer 04-14-2004 11:27 AM

Sim City 4?
 
hello all, I'm thinking of buying the deluxe version of Sim City 4, and am soliciting opinions. What are the pros and cons of this game? Does it live up to your expectations? My last game purchase was Rise of Nations, and I'm sort of waffling on it. So far, it has fallen short of my expectations.

Mephex 04-14-2004 11:30 AM

Not enough micro management, high system requirements, the addon pack was kind of fun for a couple of hours tho.

I'd give it a 6/10

shakran 04-14-2004 11:59 AM

The addon pack was annoying as hell because it wasn't fully thought out. Say you have a city on two islands. Rush Hour will give you a fire truck mission with the truck on one island and the fire on the other, making it impossible to pass. You have to overbuild the hell out of railroads, making ultra complicated turnarounds all over the place to have a chance of passing them, because they didn't bother putting in a "reverse train" command.

It's basically a lightly massaged sim city 3000. I'm ready for true micromanagement.

Mephex 04-14-2004 12:06 PM

You know what I'd suggest ?

Go grab yourself a copy of Europa 1400 : The guild GOLD EDITION.
Make sure it's the gold, as the first one is bug ridden.

Just might be your bag.

djtestudo 04-14-2004 12:15 PM

Sim City 4 is a really great game, just really complicated in parts. It's very different from the other three before, but the basics are the same. If you know that going in, you'll be happy with it.

LaughingCow 04-14-2004 02:12 PM

I bought the deluxe edition, and find it quite fun. Definately worth the money I payed. I bought it months ago and still play it. I never played Simcity 3000, only 2000 before this and to me it's just as fun only with more options.

Locobot 04-15-2004 08:41 PM

Man, I played the hell out of Sim City and the sequel 2000, so 3000 was highly anticipated. After about an hour of play I had a little epiphany, "SO DULL!" Maybe I out grew it or, as I think, the gaming industry out grew the game. Well to each her own.

djtestudo 04-15-2004 09:06 PM

The problem with 3000 was that it was basically "SimCity 2000 2". There wasn't anything really special about it.

In 4 they have kept the basic point of the game, building a city any way you like, while making a lot of the game new, such as the regions and the new economic system.

2000 is still my all-time favorite computer game, but 4 is very good too.

dcbullet 04-17-2004 09:04 PM

It's ok, not that great IMO. As was said above, very high system requirements.

It is also a pain in the ass to get your city to grow vertically (skyscapers), but if you like the challenge, go for it.

punx1325 04-18-2004 09:47 PM

4 was Ok. I went through my phase where I didn't do anything for a week. Kinda like when The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon came out. Then I realized I hadn't seen the sun in a few days and deleted it off my computer. It was the only way...

LeviticusMky 04-27-2004 12:11 PM

Sim City 4 is having a hard time garnering a lot of praise from the gaming community because it is a HARD game. The main problem with any major American city is traffic, the main problem in Sim City 4... TRAFFIC! The creators of the game wanted to make it as close as possible to running a real city while still holding onto some element of fun.

Perhaps the reason that people liked Sim City, SC2000, and SC3000 was because it only took about a half hour to get all the money you would ever need, and from that point on you could build your city however you wanted...

teshadoh 05-02-2004 05:28 AM

I had been a fan of the SimCity series since 1990. But I have to say, SimCity 4 bored me after a while. I first played it for a good 6 months straight. Then I was off for a few months until the Rush Hour pack came out - that lasted only a few months. I don't know what it is about it but the game doesn't interest me as much as SimCity 2000 did. Maybe I'll start playing it again, but one thing I've requested on a regular basis are street cars.

denim 08-09-2004 12:57 PM

In real life, street cars make traffic worse. That's why they were taken out of Boston, anyway.

I just started playing SC4 a few days ago, after letting it sit on the floor for a month or so. That first day, I started playing it, and the next time I looked up, four hours had passed.

I've had SimCity since v1, though I skipped 3000 'cause it appeared to be a pig.

Bim 08-09-2004 01:18 PM

I have a love hate thing with Sim City. I was very exicted about Sim City 4 on realese. I pre-ordered and everything. Anyways. I played for about 4 to 5 months. Then it got boreing. I let it sit for a long while. Then one day outa the blue, I'm like, "Hmm, Mabey i should play Sim City 4." So i go reinstall, and LOVE it again for the next couple of months. Then once agian, it sits. It's been that way ever since. I put it down for a while and then i get the hankering. I just reinstalled it about 2 weeks ago. been great so far.

Ohh sorry gotta go. Industral is buring down again.:o

portwineboy 08-09-2004 03:14 PM

I too have played since the original days when my "product code" was on a red sheet of paper so it wouldn't photocopy, supposedly.

I didn't like the size of the "regions" in SC4. I liked having huge cities and the SC4 regions are too small.

BooRadley 08-09-2004 09:04 PM

SC4 is pretty mediocre. Everyone has pretty much illustrated all the points, but I'll add another few.

- High system requirements cannot be emphasized enough

- The genre of game gets old quickly... don't get me wrong, I've played every sim city in existance, but Simcity 4 just doesn't make enough 'new' options to be interesting. Yes, rush hour lets you drive around, yawn. Why didn't they include driving a la sim copter? Or an actual 'career' mode where you had an actual job other than mayor-god for life? Such as micromanage a city throughout 30 years of turbulent times?

- Somehow city connections are really BAD. I remember building an avenue that didn't come out to the other city, and 5,000 of my sims commuted(in the morning) to a city with 500 jobs. Strange.

- The addition of agricultural zones is pointless. They are completely useless, unless I just suck at simcity ( which is unlikely, as I can make large cities that are near-utopian, as I've played some form of simcity since I was 10, I'm 21 now.. ). They provide no jobs, don't grow, and have no use. You can't even make an agricultural town, as you would have to have 90% of the land as farms to give a 4x4 residential area enough jobs. Silly.


The value I put on the game is $25. Any more, I'd think twice.

Gabbyness 08-12-2004 09:20 AM

I agree with the connections part. For some reason I never could decipher the way those worked. Somtimes it would say, "No connections present," when I had almost a half-dozen.

Ditto with agro. Good review, BooRadley.

omega2K4 08-12-2004 09:25 AM

SimCity 4 was okay, not great like SimCity 2000. I still like SimCity 2000 the best out of all of the SimCity games, but if you can get SimCity 4 for like $20, and you got a PC that can run it, go ahead. But you'd be better off getting SimCity 2000 & 3000 for really cheap.


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