Sim City 4 is a great game with most of the basics mastered and still sticks to the great Sim City gameplay, but adds more functionality and ways to get information about your city. From when you start your city, you get into a region instead of the menus which appeared in the previous versions. You click on your piece of land and once you’ve clicked play, you can start to create the landscape for your city and its surroundings. Remember to press the pause button; otherwise the date will continue to go whilst you are creating your city. The only mode which you can access is the God Mode, which allows you to create mountains, gorges, cliffs, valleys, lakes, rivers, mesas and plateaus. Once you have created your landscape, you can add trees, animals and erode/soften to land. Once you think that your city surroundings are up to scratch, click on the Mayor mode and select the cities and mayors names. Now you can begin to create your city. Sim City 4 is a game with catchy ‘simmish’ music, great-quality graphics and simple yet interesting gameplay. I really like the ‘My Sim’ mode, because it gives you the chance to let one of your original sims loose into the city and get up-to-date news and opinions from him or her and this can really help in the long-run. There are a lot of extra features which have been added to Sim City 4. The most obvious of these is the graphic enhancement, which makes the city seem more realistic and allows you to get deeper into the feel of your city. Another enhancement is the amount of options which you have in the Mayor mode to build in your city, as you can do so much more than what you could in any other version. The new ways to see city information is really good, as it is very detailed and though – you can see everything from commute time to amount of garbage in your city for over 100 years ago! GAMEPLAY: 8/10 The gameplay is really as any other sim city game is – it is to create a city and control every aspect to it, but Sim City 4 makes this more enjoyable as it gives you more options and ways to find out more about you city. Also, you can create a certain city type, for example, if you just want wealthy sims in your city, you can do things that will encourage them and discourage other types of sims and businesses/industries. The new region feature allows for you to have different areas for residents, and other cities for the sims place of work. GRAPHICS: 9/10 Superb graphics with very detailed design and added things that just make the game look good like kids playing on roads and sims walking to work. The graphics where great, with the addition of the day/night cycle being excellent, as you can see your city with every little light on and cars with their high-level beams on. The only problem is that occasionally the computer was running slow because of the high-quality graphics. SOUND: 8/10 Great sound with no real drawbacks other that these tunes where so catchy and yet annoying at the same time. Sound effects where really good as well, as you can hear the honks of horns and the voices of kids playing football. VALUE: 9/10 Great value at only $20 when it became a classic not to long ago. This is a great game with all going for it. I experienced a little bit of problems like crashing, but downloading a patch and that fixed it. All over a great game.
Simcity 4...just plain amazing. If there's one thing that Maxis and EA Games can do right, its produce games like this that have us drooling control freaks entertained for hours on end. Where do i begin? There are loa... Read Full Review
Sim City 4 introduces big changes to the Sim City series originally created by Will Wright. I personally prefer sim city 3000 to this game. The good: - 3d graphics - Terra-forming landscapes have been made easier -... Read Full Review
