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Summary: Patch available but cautious
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Still awaiting my Mac copy of SC4 (have the PC version) so I don't know how well it works yet. good luck!
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Summary: Great Fun but Realistically Challenging- not like prior Sims
Review: A veteran of the original SimCity as well as 2000, this one seems more sensitive to broad-brush management, needing a more delicate hand- check out the walkthrough and FAQ sites to help.
The controls are intuitive, the tutorials great, the detail amazing (watching sims in day-to-day life), and as long as avoid loans then can get to a decent small town (10,000 people) within a few simulated "years". A neat feature is that you can save multiple cities on a larger common geography, and link them for trade and business. Can't wait for the pro-sports and universities (larger population dependant)!
My iMac G5 1.6GHz 1GB RAM 64MB VRAM sometimes pauses in refreshing graphical details- so lots of horsepower required to keep this one moving. A great choice for your collection.
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Summary: serial key error
Review: As of this moment I am very dissapointed with this game- and I haven't even got it to work yet.
It appears that some copies of the game were shipped out with invalid CD keys, and I just so happened to pick one up.
Potential Buyer Beware! You might get a copy with an invalid CD key!
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Summary: Where is the performance update?
Review: Can someone please provide a link to the Apple website for the update?
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Summary: SimCity 4 (Mac Version)
Review: Even with SuperSaver I got this game in 1 day, which was great because I have been thirsting for the OSX version of this upgrade. I was surprised to note that it requires 2 discs, and takes about a Gig of space. There were problems loading the intro movies, but even first-run, the game worked buglessly, and my 800Mhz iBook handles the complex graphic with ease. And the graphics are complex! Even in the regional view the graphics take ones breath away. Cities are agglomerated in this region view, and interdependence is the key. It is much slower than Sc3K to develop a city, and requires a lot more input and attention, though it is equally more accurate in portraying real-mayoral duty. The transport generator is amazing, and the details are astonishing. Where I used to take a day off work to play, now I will need a week.
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Summary: Kinda' good and kinda' bad
Review: I enjoy playing the game but it is a memory hog. The game runs slow and has crashed when cities get large. It is a very pretty game; the detail in managing your city is complex but intriguing. Some aspects of game play still elude me and I haven't found the instructions very helpful. I would recommend this game if you really enjoy the Sim City games but be prepared for disappointments. All in all could be a better game.
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Summary: Performance is horrible
Review: I gave SimCity 4 a shot for a whole month. I tried it on my dad's PowerBook G4, and my son's new iBook G4, in addition to my own Blue & White upgraded with a G4 and an ATI Radeon 7000 Mac Edition. The performance for this game is in the pooper. The reason this product gets more than one star from me, however, is, it's simply a great game in concept, it's trying to be that game, and you can get some sense of that, despite the performance challenges. I first fell in love with the original SimCity. This game does, to some degree, carry that torch. I have read many reviews that have only one star, and most complain about the performance, particularly scrolling. They ignore that this game has a great game soundtrack, and a great game play, in concept. The problem with this game, since version 3, and far worse in version 4, is...it's designed to take the most advantage of the fastest computers available on the market, using the most amazing graphics cards available on the market. Trouble is, most computers sold to you and me aren't that. If you simply apply Moore's Law that computer performance doubles every 18 months, which it has (more or less), and also apply the rule that consumer computers run at up to 1/2 the performance of the top of the line, only the elite can truly enjoy this game. If your computer is 1-2 years old, or not a top-of-the-line G4 with the top-of-the-line graphics card, or both, PERFORMANCE WILL SUCK. It's as simple as that. I would only recommend this game for fair-weather friends and potential enemies.
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Summary: Good game but minus some performace problems
Review: I had the most advanced Apple, that is until the new aluminum ones came out, and I have had trouble with performance. My computer is full of memory and has the best graphics card apple offers. When my city was still small I would have problems when I scroll with the map becoming segmented. That is to say that as I scroll portions of the map would show up in their own "window" of sorts completely out of place. This detracted seriously from the playability of the game. If not for that the game would be more enjoyable.
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Summary: SimCity 4 - the best SimCity game ever
Review: I own this game since from August 2004 and when I played it, I totally loved it. I mean, this game has much more opportunities and control for me to take the power with, comparing with the SimCity 2000. In SimCity 2000, you can only manage the region-wide controls as the fire department, police stations, and hospital's budgets and so on. Also, you get few rewards in that game. But now, it's SimCity 4, you get the ability to control more than ONE cities, and you can finally make neighboring cities to exhange some deals and so on. You can even design your own map of the cities, like the quote from SimCity 4's game trailer, "Build the city of your dreams." This is the best game and if you're looking for the total power and control of the cities and building them from your own mind, SimCity 4 is the best game to own!
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Summary: SimCity 4 - the best SimCity game ever
Review: I own this game since from August 2004 and when I played it, I totally loved it. I mean, this game has much more opportunities and control for me to take the power with, comparing with the SimCity 2000. In SimCity 2000, you can only manage the region-wide controls as the fire department, police stations, and hospital's budgets and so on. Also, you get few rewards in that game. But now, it's SimCity 4, you get the ability to control more than ONE cities, and you can finally make neighboring cities to exhange some deals and so on. You can even design your own map of the cities, like the quote from SimCity 4's game trailer, "Build the city of your dreams." This is the best game and if you're looking for the total power and control of the cities and building them from your own mind, SimCity 4 is the best game to own!
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