Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition (PC)

Sim City 4, or 4000, is an epic city building game from simulation gurus' Maxis, well know for creating large game universes and immersive, complicated games. Indeed, the complication is a major part of many games, and can even be so bad as to turn players away due to the difficulty. With SimCity 4, you start the game as, literally, a God. In this mode, you are allowed to terraform the map to make it much more favorable for city placement, allowing you to create gentle, flat plains, or rolling hills, even though that may create problems, mentioned later on. The next mode is where you will be spending most of your time, titled Mayor Mode, that lets ...  Read the complete review

Sim City 4 was developed by Maxis, which is a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, and is a city building simulation game. The game was released in 2003 and had a good reception from critics worldwide. The game goes into much detail during gameplay with players having to manage finances, control pollution levels, zone residential/commercial and industrial ares and just keep the all round quality of life for residents at a high standard. Being the deluxe edition this game includes the rush hour expansion pack as a built in feature, which allows you to do a lot more during the game, such as driving side missions, to get more cash and a better mayor ...  Read the complete review

Sim City 4 is, as the name would suggest, an advanced city simulator by Maxis. It allows the player to create any settlement they like: they can create a small rural town, a bustling commercialised city or an industrialised suburb, or combinations of those. The player can mould the surrounding area of the town to any degree that they like when starting; they can create mountains, rivers, cliffs and valleys to base their city around, as well as trees. This makes the setting of the game different every time. When starting the game the player may choose an overworld which is divided into different allotments of land. The overworld becomes generally shaped by the ...  Read the complete review

Simcity was almost certainally the most sucessful and well known simulator until the Sims arrive and somehow got everyone obsessed with it and its 754 expansion packs. Simcity 4 is by far the most complex and involving of the series, to be a successful mayor you must balance the demands of your cities residential, commercial and industrial residents whilst keeping a lid on crime, traffic, pollution, power supply, water, and crucially your budgets. SC4 takes the city building to the next level by allowing you to connect dozens of your cities together into a giant inter-linked metropolis with massive highways running through dozens of cities and a ...  Read the complete review

This game is for people who not only like The Sims but also those who enjoy tycoon games such as roller coaster tycoon or zoo tycoon. The aim of the game as the title suggests is build your on city from the ground up with limited funds. After playing the now really old game Sim city 3000, i decided to buy this in the hope it would be similar but better. I wasn't disappointed. The graphics were much better and the game play was not better but more realistic apart from the UFOs. The brings me on to natural disasters these range from a tornado to a volcano. Many disasters like the volcano have been added to Sim city. The game is fun, as when your bored with ...  Read the complete review