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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

List Price: $39.99
Your Price: $34.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Money, Money, Money!!!!
Review: This game is fun, but I hate paying for stuff! I hate that the landmarks have to be paid for! I wish the rewards are free, and I wish everything is free!. I'm just 13, and I can't deal with all these taxes! I hope in Sim City 5, everything is free, but for expert players, they can play hard mode for money. I just want to have fun, and not worry about money.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quite simply the best computer game of all time in one pack
Review: Computer games my friends don't get any better than this! THis "Deluxe EditioN" compiles the original Simcity 4 game along with the "Rush Hour" expansion pack into one package!

Simcity 4 suffered from many flaws that I felt really hindered the game's credibility in many areas. One was the freeways where they would just simply end in a dangling cliff where it would look like a daredevil stunt arena. Another one was the street system where you couldn't build anything more than two lane roads other than freeways. The game felt a bit unfinished in many areas.

However the graphics, music and scope are absolutely amazing and are a grand improvement over the Simcity 2000 game from many years back.

The Rush Hour Expansion pack corrects many of these mistakes by adding a freeway terminal interchange and you can also build wide four-lane avenues with medians and civic buildings are also improved on a vast scale (Larger police stations, Larger schools, etc.), and adds so many new things to this game like monorail, elevated rail to subway, new disasters, and a "U-Drive It" feature where you can actually drive around your newly built city.

This item is a must-have for Simcity fanatics. Just be sure you have lots of disk space or else the game might go at a cold molasses pace.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Quite simply the best computer game of all time in one pack
Review: Computer games my friends don't get any better than this! THis "Deluxe EditioN" compiles the original Simcity 4 game along with the "Rush Hour" expansion pack into one package!

Simcity 4 suffered from many flaws that I felt really hindered the game's credibility in many areas. One was the freeways where they would just simply end in a dangling cliff where it would look like a daredevil stunt arena. Another one was the street system where you couldn't build anything more than two lane roads other than freeways. The game felt a bit unfinished in many areas.

However the graphics, music and scope are absolutely amazing and are a grand improvement over the Simcity 2000 game from many years back.

The Rush Hour Expansion pack corrects many of these mistakes by adding a freeway terminal interchange and you can also build wide four-lane avenues with medians and civic buildings are also improved on a vast scale (Larger police stations, Larger schools, etc.), and adds so many new things to this game like monorail, elevated rail to subway, new disasters, and a "U-Drive It" feature where you can actually drive around your newly built city.

This item is a must-have for Simcity fanatics. Just be sure you have lots of disk space or else the game might go at a cold molasses pace.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: kool!!
Review: First, some history:

I've been playing SimCity since the old DOS version. I loved it (all of Will Wright's sim games, like SimAnt and SimEarth), and loved the series even more when SimCity 2000 came out. I would spend sometimes all day playing it, and using SCURK to make my own buildings.

When SimCity 4 came out I begged my mother to buy it for me for my 21st birthday (she did), and I played it once - then didn't play it ever again until just a few weeks ago. I finally got into the game then.

Let me tell you - don't play SimCity 4 unless you've got Rush Hour or Deluxe because you'll never manage to get a city up and running. In no time there is too much traffic and the budget is terrible. You only get property taxes and an incredibly tiny amount of fares for public transportation (no wonder the CTA has never made a dime) as income, but everything else comes out of your pocket - hospitals and clinics, schools, fire and police protection, as well as maintaince for the roads, pipes, and other infrastructure to keep a bustling metropolis going.

Rush Hour (or Deluxe) makes it all better - your city has many more, sometimes cheaper, alternatives to transit, which helps reduce your burden. Use larger avenues for increased traffic, and place tollbooths on them and make a few hundred simoleons a month extra. Create elevated rails in your car clogged downtown and elimiate both traffic and pollution at once. On top of that, you now have easy/normal/hard modes that start you out with a bit more than the original 100,000 (500,000 in easy). Also, I swear, your population, jobs, and demand are more balanced in the expansion than the original game. It is also easier for commuters to get to jobs too - I haven't seen a single No Job zot over any houses yet, even though my city is physically larger than any I'd created in the original SimCity 4.

On easy, you also get more from taxes than the other difficulty levels. Create cities next to each other and sell services, or better yet, put your power, industrial, and garbage in the next town - and your residential and water in the first and sell back and forth. Use a few avenues to lead up to the industrial and place a tollbooth on each one and watch your revenues rise.

Just remember, though: read the manual - SimCity 4 is really really complex and hard to understand at first, but is worth it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Stunning Experience!
Review: I am a long time owner of the original SimCity. The new game is absolutely light years away from the original.

Not only is the AI much more advanced in SimCity4, but the functionality and graphics are tremendous. There is simply nothing as fulfilling after finally getting the city budget into the black than entering the sims screen and driving a police cruiser around the city running cars off the street. ;)

Also, The night time mode is absolutely beautiful, and I find myself exposing my sims to an eternal nocturnal environment. :)

The gameplay and superb graphics do come at a price. The memory and disk space needed to run the game are intensive for most computers that don't have the latest generation processing speeds, video cards and memory. The game worked seamlessly over Christmas on my parents laptop, but was sluggish on my computer which barely meets the minimum requirements. Much to my distress, the game will be shelved until I can purchase a newer system.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Beware - SimCity4 Does Not Run On Some Windows 98 Machines
Review: I bought SimCity 4 only to find out that it does not run on some Windows 98 machines. I have all the hardware requirements, so when it did not run I called tech support. Amazingly enough they told me it just did not run on some Windows 98 machines. What a surprise. I normally trust EAGames but this was disappointing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: this is so far the best game out there sim city does it agai
Review: i love sim city its the greatest software out there i spend our hours at theis game cause you do get addicted to it even my mom is starting to play with it and shes 40 something well you wont waste ur money on this game its a good game especially since it is a deluxe version you get more features for your money so you gettin some good stuff overall this game rocks you will not regret buyin this game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sim city rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Game won't work
Review: I loved earlier Sim City's, so this one looked like the end all be all. I tried installing it on 2 totally different systems, and it will not work on either system. One system is a Toshiba laptop, Satellite 2455-S305, which i bought i FEB03. The other system is a home built, Intel P4 running XP Pro. I went to Simcity's website and there are no patches available yet. This game could not have been tested AT ALL before they decided to market it... i thought only microsoft sent things out the door only half baked???

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Huge Achievment
Review: I purchased SimCity 4 at least a year ago for $89 :( . I wasn't that happy with it, not being into the RTS genre at the time. So it sat there for around 11 months until I really got into the RTS "spirit". Then SimCity 4 really shined. It covers every detail of running a city, from taxes to landfill. The graphics are superb, even on my Dell 2400 computer, (which has an integregrated graphics device). You see Sims talking, driving, taking the train, everything. The structures are much more realistic then those of Sim City 3000,(which we have at school). It takes a little getting used to at first, but once you get the hang of it, It's quite easy.

PROS:
1. Superb Graphics
2. Complete City Governing Coverage
3. Advisors are more help then in SC3
4. Rush Hour adds complete transportation coverage
5. Graphs and Data Views are more detailed

CONS:

1. My computer deletes cities sometimes
2. Some Gliches with less powerful graphic cards or processors

Score

Graphics 5/5
Sound 5/5
Speed 4/5
Compatability 4/5

OVERALL 5/5

This is not a game for people who hate fiddling with every detail of everything. Gamers new to RTS or expierienced will find this game enjoyable.
I thouroughly recommend it

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Too Realistic
Review: I really did prefer simcity 3 to this version. The new one just is more complicated and the graphics are about the same as version 3. I would just stick to simcity 3 if i was you.


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