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Summary: Very Very Good and Very Addictive
Review: I really love playing simulation games and Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition is the best I've come across so far. I used to have the orginal Sim City for the Commodore 64. Yes I'm showing my age, I have also had other versions of Sim City for the PC and I found the older ones more frustrating.I been up sometimes to 3 am working with my cities. I was in local government for 15 years and this game is also very realistic with traffic problems, budget problems, other officals who sometimes put their own interests above others and so on. After reading some of the reviews I have a few tips for who ever is interested. Computer Tips: 1.) Turn off antivirus software while installing and playing the game (this goes for about every game)
2.) Check for video card driver updates and direct x updates Game Play Hints: 1.) Try and keep your schools in a central location in your residential areas, that way you can use less bus funding. Also do the same with your public services.
2.) Don't build any fire dept until the public safety dude is yelling at you.
3.) Try not to let the game auto place your streets when zoning. Build your own first and then zone around them and make sure the arrows are pointing to the street.
4.) When doing a lot of street building and zoning pause the game, it cuts down on the distractions
5.) You can sneak funding down a little on public ultities.
6.) You can sneak taxes up a little over time without too many problems. Sim City 4 Deluxe is worth having.
Rating: 
Summary: Wonderful but hard.
Review: I'm not talking exactly about very hard is just that you have to play and I mean play, be there, feel the stress and at the same time feel emotion and be excited.
Well but is difficult to see the city of my dreams, but how ever the game represents a challenge, hard but you enjoy the time, the time flies...
Now PLEASE read the requirements.Why the people write a review against the game just for the requirements... that's crazy.. Please write something about the game not about YOUR MISTAKES!
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Summary: Great game.
Review: I've been a fan since the first sim city. This version gives you even more power and detail in the game. The Rush Hour package also helps to have more activities and fun. Warning, you could easily get adicted to it ;)
Rating:
Summary: Hats off to Maxis on a stunning urban achievement
Review: I've been playing SimCity since the original was released on Windows systems. With every new release, Maxis (and now their partners EA) the crew packs more realism and fun than the previous version--Simcity 4 is no exception to this legacy. While the gameplay may seem a bit complicated if you're not currently a hardcore Simmer, it's pretty easy to get used to. Also, this game isn't for the faint of heart-like the other game from EA, The Sims, I find myself spending hours on my cities...this is a great gift for anyone--kid or adult!
Rating: 
Summary: Alright But Sim City 3000 is better
Review: If you are lucky enough not to have it freeze up on you, it is a fun game. I enjoyed playing it, but the graphics are just not as sharp as they were in 3000, and there is just so much to whatch over in your city. If you like doing several things at once you will love this game. It is really different from the first three. The plus side is that it is alot bigger, and there is more to do. The down side is that it freezes all the time, and there is so much to whatch out for. I would recomend getting Sim City 3000 instead.
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Summary: The BEST Game Ever!(...)
Review: It is 10000x easier(u always have to go undergrond for pipes ONLY) than Simcity 3000 cuz in Simcity 3000 they are freaks about water and even if they do have water, they still abandon it. BUT in Simcity 4 they hardly complain!Blow your city up and u still will have people living in it!It has the best graphics and the U-Drive-It is fun!!(Crash into another tank and the barrel will pop off)Honk at the pedestrians and they'll scream in terror and if u spray them with your hose in the fire truck or if u fire something! ALERT!!ALERT!! WHEN BUYING SC4 YOU MUST HAVE A 128MB(OR HIGHER) VIDEO CARD.
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Summary: Extremely addictive and entertaining
Review: Let me start by saying that the first few times i played this game (my first SimCity game) i wasn't too happy. It seemed a little hard and made me feel that playing this game is more about money management than planning and building a city. However as i tried it out some more i got the hang of things and began to realize that the simulation is pretty realistic and has a lot of variety built in.
The key to enjoying this game is to understand that adding more amenities to the city - like colleges, garbage collection, hospitals, public transportation,... is expensive and to prevent those investments from draining your money, the city needs to expand as soon as every one of these things is added. So basically you need to zone more areas for residential, commercial and industrial growth as you add more facilities so that these facilities are shared by more people which makes them cheaper to you and more people means more tax revenue.
The other thing i found very interesting is how the city doesn't always need to grow the same way. You could decide to build a farming community where you don't bother much with education and pollution or you could build a high tech city where you have to make sure you're encouraging the right kind of industry and people to move into your city.
The Rush Hour expansion (which is part of this Deluxe edition) is more useful when your city gets really big (i would say 50,000+) so that you can now add different kinds of public transportation means. To make the right decision regarding the location of subway stations, etc. you can look at the traffic flow across the whole city or concentrate on one building and see how people are getting to this place.
Then there is also the next step of connecting cities together. This enables you to build an industrial city with high rises and a neighboring one thats an affluent suburb with big mansions and boutique stores.
This game has a lot of depth. It does take a little time to get the hang of it but hey... no pain, no gain :)
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Summary: The best SimCity ever
Review: Make sure your PC is fast and meets the gaming requirements because this game it the cutting edge of city planning. I haven't been able to stop playing. A Must for serious PC gamers.
Rating: 
Summary: What a mess!
Review: Nearly every good idea or advancement they promised, has been implemented badly. And oddly enough, everything fun and addictive about previous versions has been forgotten. This game actually gets worse the more you play.
Just a few problems with this game are:
A poor interface with few options - No multiple saves here.
Bad "terrascaping" tools. Worse than SC2000
Circa 1999 graphics. (despite killing your system's specs)
No real "regional" play - Time stops in parts of your city not played. So one can throw all the 'junk' in those parts, and it will never actually affect your played "cities".
Horrible AI/pathfinding -cars drive in circles and sims can't get to work right across the street.
This game has MANY more horrid mistakes, too many to list here.
The bad AI within SC Deluxe is especially damaging because nearly every factor in one's city runs off of your citizens abilities to commute- (jobs,land values,pollution, costs, etc.) not even mentioning traffic congestion problems!
SimCity 4 Deluxe is NOT a game for thinkers and observant gamers, as they will quickly see a game that should never have been released. It is just that awful.
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Summary: Great thinking game
Review: Sim City 4 is a game that challenges your management skills. You have to really keep track of everything that is going on in your city. From Urban planning, to SDOT(Sims Dept. of Transportation), to Education. You need to stay on top of it all. You do have advisors in the city that give you great advice and will help you through most everything. This is not an easy game. If you're anything like me I had heard about sim city but I had never played it. I took the chance, bought the game, and started playing. After an hour I had a small city that I really liked. The thing that really hooks you about this game is that it can just keep going. It's not like other games that once you have beaten it, you're done an you never play it again. This is a great game that you can play for a few hours a week and really not get tired of it. I became totally addicted to it. I try to play whereever and whenever I can! Your city keeps changing and growing and evolving. Plus you can try different types of cities. Try the agracultural city, there's a real challenge. If you can figure out how to make a farming community prosper, then you're really starting to think about what it takes to run a city. This game recently won the Parenting approval award. Here is a game that actually forces you to think in order to win. This is a great game. Just try it for an hour or two. Also, please read the system requirements. This game is big and requires a fair bit of horse power to run. The technology is changing folks, yes the games are getting bigger and need more power to run, but, because of that you get a game that is really incredible to play. Good luck!
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