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Summary: SimiCity 4 will make you say "WOW, NICE GAME!"
Review: For those of you who are SimCity fans, this new version of Sim City is a GREAT improvement.The game is very hard to play at first, because it is very complex. The graphic is really awesome. The 3D effects are amazing. There is a night and day time period, before there wasn't such a thing. It makes the game more realistic. Must try Game of the Year! I give 2 thumbs up for this item! :)
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Summary: High Requirements!!!
Review: The game is absolutely fantastic! The graphic design, the transportation simulation and the animations all add up to a very nice city constructing game. The experience from the previous games had a good effect.
Unfortunately, the game is hungry for memory. I bought a new PC some weeks ago. A 2.4GHz CPU with a GeForce4 4400 128MB grafic card and 512MB of DDR (333MHz) RAM and guess what!? I get an annoying slowmotion-show as soon as the city is big enough (approx. 100000 people). It looks to me as the RAM memory is too small! I hear and see that the HD is constantly being used, so it smells like swapping in and out the content of these rather big maps. So I guess I will buy another chunk of 512MB DDR RAM to try to finally play fluently Sim City 4 with a total 1GB of RAM!!!
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Summary: Don't buy!
Review: Please don't give your money to Electronic Arts just to be a beta tester! This product is not ready and should not have been released to the public. Save your money!
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Summary: No reason to upgrade to this from SimCity 3000
Review: After a week of playing this game, my general opinion of it is very poor. I have seen very little different from SimCity 3000 and the game CRAWLS on my PIII 800MHz/512MB machine. Also, you spend half of your time dispatching fire engines in the city, which is barely fun the first time you do it. It is down right annoying the 50th time. Not only that, if I play the game straight for about 40 minutes it will crash to the desktop. Wish I had never bought this game, and just installed my old SimCity 3K for a little while. I just hope a patch will improve the speed/crashing problems.
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Summary: Excellent game if your cpu can handle it.
Review: I had a great time with this game, mind you it's just a sandbox with no missions and nothing I would call multiplayer, but it's still fun even if the secrets to making a perfect city still aren't mine. There are problems though, the game is unstable and there is no patch available as I write this. Once I have a fairly large city of about 50k people, the game starts to have problems with frame rate and locking up. If they ever patch this thing, I'd say it's probably the best city builder game I've ever seen, but until there is a patch avoid it. My PC's specs that I played Simcity 4 on are, Athlon xp 2400+, 512MB of pc2700, geforce 4 ti4200 128mb etc...
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Summary: If you've got an older version, save your money.
Review: I've played most of the Sim games, and find them all equally addictiive. Sim City 4 is no departure from the addiction, but unfortunately it was a waste of money. It's basically a graphics upgrade from 3000 and I would have been just as satisfied with the graphics in 2000. The game crashes constantly. You'd think by now I'd learn to save my game, but it usually crashes after I've played a couple hours after forgetting to save... There's no patch yet, and the word on the forums is that the mysim feature, which allows you to import a sim... is what causes the instability. If they can't support a feature, they should hold out on releasing the game. It's very difficult to run a city without running into the negative. I'd love to be able to build freely without using a cheat code to get more simoleans.
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Summary: Hours of Fun!
Review: Great graphics! You can see the buildings going up, and the Sims in action! The game takes a lot of stategy in planning and combining your recsouces with your neighbors. I've played the game for many hours and the game runs fine on my PC, no problems at all, but check the system requirements before buying!
This game is very different from prior additions of Simcity. The new Sims on line (TSO) interface takes some getting used to, and the use of regional strategy takes some new thoughts of city planning (you need to build neighboring cities in order to succeed).
You will need to use carefull placement of industrial zones as they emit a LOT of pollution, and you must conect to Simnation via rail/road connections.
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Summary: Buggy
Review: I installed it and go to start the game and the CD ROM spins, but nothing happens. I go straight back to the desktop. Even used the online support, but its no help. I have plenty of PC power to run the game, but it won't go. In reading the Amazon reviews, it looks like I'm not the only person with major techno-problems. This game is a big fat pig. Its so big your computer will choke.
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Summary: I could go both ways
Review: SInce I ahvent played the game I reallly have no opinion, but i think i oculd go either way. The website is nice, but i am worried becasue there is no demo. I played a lot of simcity 2000 but i was 14 then and i do not know if i still have the same taste in video games. I might try to download it illegaly which i suggest you do too.
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Summary: If you have the power
Review: The game is as great as any previous SimCity version, and with more features, and amazing graphics. Unfortunately, to run all that, you need one heck of a computer. My P4 1.3 MHz with 256MB RAM can barely handle a medium size city. I'm buying more RAM because it's definitely worth it. The new region feature isn't bad, the only noticeable problem is the size of the individual cities are smaller now, so you cannot build that city with a million people. You are, however, now able to build a completely industrial city, a rich suburb, a commercial center, etc, all in the same region. It isn't a revolutionary change, but it's a somewhat welcome one. The graphics are great, what is to be expected of a new SC. The street level detail is unbelievable, with children playing, dogs walking, cars going to actual specific destinations, and other crazy things. I've had the game for two weeks and it has only crashed on me once. That's still too many times, and Maxis needs a patch. We don't expect anything less.
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