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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition Review (continued)
More User Submitted SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition Reviews
Date: 2008-01-06
Classic simulation game with a modern twist
SimCity is the classic simulation game that started it all! This modern version functions very nearly the original, yet gives you the advantages of modern technology: ride in a car, walk the streets, see unique building styles, and import your own Sims. Even if you don't like simulation games, you can enjoy terraforming, building, and destroying! For me, I can never create quite the perfect city, so I'm always revising or starting over, which means hours of endless entertainment.
Date: 2007-12-28
Works on Vista, keeps me up nights, lots of fun..hard to beat.
I got this for myself this Christmas :) It does work on Vista unlike another reviewer said. My husband's laptop pc has only Vista and it played fine. It did crash once, however...just shut down. I have since then saved it over and over. Why though, I ask myself as I keep losing lol I can't figure out this game, my finances tank and there are riots in the streets...I can't beat it! Hours and hours of fun.
Date: 2007-12-26
Not ready for Vista
First the scary stuff, then the review.
SCARY STUFF
If you have Windows Vista Don't bother with SimCity 4 or its sibling SimCity Societies. I'm suck with both and neither of them work under Vista. They load, they start, they run for 20 to thirty minutes, then its constant crashing. Societies got to the point where it would crash every 4 to 6 minutes. I tried all the fixes that Microsoft and EA suggested, which weren't much, and they still didn't work. I even tried updating and falling back on new and old drivers for my Video Card, Nvidia 8500 GT, and still no go. I dumbed down the display to 640x480 at 256 colors and crash away they went.
REVIEW
Both games can be fun, but in different ways.
SC4 is a micro managers dream, you'll end up spending so much time laying water pipe and figuring out sewage, power, and etc., etc., etc., you won't have much time to sit back and enjoy your creation.
SCS is less demanding on your hands-on skills, it lets you tune the style of city you build more then dealing with the exact number of water pumps you need to keep your city humming. Only the SCS Sims are much more likely to run you out on a rail then the SC4 folks, if things aren't going right. That's when you start to change from a Artsy Utopia to a Fascist Police State, in order to maintain control and stay in power.
Anyway, I suggest you stick with Windows XP to enjoy either of these games.
Date: 2007-12-19
a clasic
first of all, I am a working mom and this is one of the few games I ever had.I use to play the original version long ago. Now I got this nice game, very cheap, and enjoy it again. My impression is that it is much harder to get a big city really work now! It also has some bugs. But overall I have a good time. And when my son tells his friens (proudly)that his mom is playing games in the computer...they can't belive it!
Date: 2007-12-19
Players Beware. This Game is ADDICTING!
Sim City 4 is like a nuerotic mind trip. ALL THE POWER you have on your sims! I have caught myself playing for literaly hours... connecting roads here, building bridges there, saving money for a rail station and an airport...it's just great!
-AK
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