Sim City 4 has great foundations (Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition (PC))

Member Name: Lazers

Product:	Sim City 4: Deluxe Edition (PC)
Date:	22/04/09 (41 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fun gameplay, incredibly immersive.

Disadvantages: Music can get repetitive, The graphics just cannot compete nowadays

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 you actually create your city on the landscape, placing residential and commercial outposts, schools, and emergency services.
The micro-management available in this mode is staggering, allowing you to tune funding to almost every stand alone building precisely, and witness the effects of such.
When building your cities however, placing them on a hill is dicey at best, and you cannot be sure that you can get your building at just the right angle, or it refuses to place, making mountainside casinos more than a bit of a bother, and means more than often you will be forced to build on a flat plain.

The graphics are passable now, and more than likely amazing when the game was first released, using a state of the art 3D engine. Unfortunately, due to performance limits, the players are limited in the control of the camera, revealing a disappointing effect, and not taking the game to its true potential.
The music is also good, and fits well in with the rest of the game, but during long playing times seems to get repetitive, and weary, and often I took my headphones off to play.

Overall, a game worth picking up for say, 10 or give pounds at a game store, but not really something that can contend with newer, better looking city simulation gamer, but one that may soon become a classic, like many, many Maxis games.

Summary: A good game, one sure to become a classic.