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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition Review (continued)
More User Submitted SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition Reviews
Date: 2007-09-29
Its Ok
Sim City 4 is a fun game but i would suggest not getting it because there is infact a new simcity coming out (learn More at simcity.com) but if u cant wait then heres what i think,
heres some pros and cons
PRO,
in simcity 4 you can do drive it missions and u can choose the funding levels for all of your services such as, school funding, mass transit funding (etc. airport, city busses, school busses, sea port, road services).
CON,
you can not choose what type of building you want to be built on a zoned area, so if you zone for low commercial buildings, you can not choose if u want a insureince company, it chooses for u, THAT IS A MAJOR CON.
more CONS,
you can choose where u place bus stops, but u can not choose what routes they all take, so if your like me and like to control every aspect of mass transit then u will find that a major downer. and a VERY BIG DOWNER IS THE PIPES, if u want your city to have more then low living areas, industrial areas, and bussines areas, u have to lay the pipes witch is not fruststraighting but BOREING because if at first there all spread out and every building has water, ok good.....BUT, when your city is bigger u need more pipes then even more boreing...not to mention the the big burning hole they have on your wallet, the water sestems are very exspenseve, so if your in a rut and need bigger buildings (witch comes from higher levels of the three zones) and its time for water, but your in a rut, but then it hits, 'hey i can just lower water funding' but if u do that this happens....the pipes burst and if u dont get new 1s they explode and blow up the road above them so make sure your finacily prepaired for them.. ^-^
PROS,
A MAJOR UPPER, the mass transit, i found placing the mass transit systems to be very ammusing, (etc. subway lines, bus lines, trains, freight trains, passenger trains, monrails, airports, sea ports, & more)
but if your like me and like to have all the lines then you have to have your budget prepaired... But over all the game is very, very, very fun & if your thinking that this is are there is to game, your wrong.... if i listed all the PROS and CONS you would be at your pc for a hour....but like i said at the beggining i do suggest NOT getting this because there is a new simcity coming out (simcity.com) but to make life easyer heres some sites where u can get a lot of downlodable things and helper for simcity 4...
http://simcity.ea.com/exchange/lots/results.php
thats a building download site....
http://www.simtropolis.com/
is a building and cheat site (both sites should explain how to make them work) keep in mind that simcity 4 must be installed *BEFORE* the downloads ^-^
Date: 2007-09-25
Game has no autosave feature...but does have autocrash
*sigh* Once again I spend some time working on a nice little city, only to have the program abruptly exit to Windows XP. No error message, nothing; just gone. And since Maxis couldn't be bothered to implement an autosave feature (a problem The Sims shares), that's it. Everything I just did is forgotten.
Of course, the ideal thing would be not to have the game crash in the first place. But hey, I'm a programmer. I know it's hard to get all the bugs out, even two or three years after the game's release. That's why other games (e.g. Railroad Tycoon II, Heroes of Might & Magic II and III) have autosave features. Since the game already saves, this feature wouldn't be hard to put in. But whether due to hubris or obliviousness, Maxis fails to do so.
Incidentally, when such crashes first began, I contacted Maxis repeatedly, sent them the autogenerated crash logs, and so forth. I never got anywhere. Support is only by e-mail, and you *never* get the same person twice in a row, so there's really no hope of making progress; each person you deal with has no real investment in helping you get the game working. Suggestions they give are of the "wipe your computer and reinstall Windows...and are you *sure* you don't have a virus?" type. I have the latest patch installed, and still I never know when the game will suddenly crash and lose everything.
Contrast this with, say, Blizzard, a company that keeps working on its games for *years* after they're released, stamping out bugs and adding enhancements. The EA approach seems to be to do nothing that doesn't *directly* contribute to the bottom line. (Customer goodwill, you see, only contributes *in*directly to the bottom line.)
I've learned my lesson. No SimCity 5. I've had enough. Maxis used to make quality games, but it appears that era has come to an end.
Date: 2007-09-12
Great Game!
I read about the game and thought it sounded fun enough to buy. It's a great game if you like to build-I can't think of another word right off- and/or be in control of things. I find myself playing this for hours without realizing it! My advice is read a description and if it sounds like something you're into, try it! It's fun!
Date: 2007-09-09
Find out why your taxes are what they are
The over-all game play experience is great. There are a few changes that could be made to make it more play-able. Such as, how about an elevated avenue crossing for inter-sataes and rail lines. A move-able camera view to see the stuff behind other graphics. More than one city in a LARGE zone would be cool too. A "ghost" rendering of adjacent zones would be nice too, to allow accurate matching of rail and hi ways.
Alot of people think that the inter-face isn't right. It isn't "intuitive" enough. Heck, most of the fun is figuring out how to do something.
After playing the game for two days straight, I came away with a new and thorough understanding of just how difficult it is to manage a city effectively. It even changed some of my feelings toward the mayor of my real life home city.
Date: 2007-08-27
not good
i like everying in the game but i hate it when they add monthly cost to buildings thats the problem i always go bankrupt and have to start all over again but other than that i really like it
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