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 Still a great game... August 4, 2008
Great game. I recently purchased this game again so I'd have something to do on long flights and when I get tired of the internet... It had been years since I played it, but even today, it's fun to play...I've even started teaching my 9 year old daughter the strategies and she loves it!
Sim City 2000 - Special Edition - Retail Box May 3, 2008
Sim City 2000 - Special Edition - Retail Box
The ultimate city simulator. You design, build, and customize any city you can imagine, and Sim City 2000 SE will bring it and its resident Sims to life. Includes the Urban Renewal Kit and Scenarios Vol. 1--all on one CD-ROM.
This is the most popular sim of all time, cranked up to a high-tech gloss and packaged with all the popular expansion sets. The original SimCity gave players the opportunity to create and oversee the growth of a living city as well as all its problems: crime, pollution, zoning demands, power outages, traffic foul-ups, and the occasional tornado, nuclear meltdown, or wandering monster from the sea. Less a game in the usual sense of the word than a sort of electronic ant farm, SimCity let players see how they fared as mayor, architect and town council. Now SimCity 2000 adds adjustable topography to the fun, using a terrain editor which can create mountains, valleys, ravines, etc. (The new types of terrain also permit the construction of hydroelectric dams and water towers.) Necessitated by this new addition is a new viewing engine, which rotates the player's municipality in 90 degree increments, so that new mountaintop university doesn't block your view of the burgeoning slum down below. As the town progresses through the decades, the sheer size and technological sophistication of your creations become more and more outlandish, and the resultant metropolis ends up looking like something out of Blade Runner. It can take quite a while to become familiar with Maxis' Sim series, and even longer to actually succeed at long-term city goals. Once you get beyond the learning curve, however, the cycle of planning, construction and urban renewal leads to a rewarding creation. And, as always, hard-won cities from earlier versions of the game can be imported for alteration and experimentation.
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Media: CD-ROM
Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows 98
 happy to find this one again! August 17, 2007
Wow, I played this way back when it first came out and loved it to pieces. Upgraded my computer, my disc vanished and I mourned. Then today I was just cruising around idly punching in search features and found it again, SO HAPPY!
For all those who are saying how terrible this game is, how it is boring and don't buy it, well, all I can is foo on you. Sure it doesn't have 3D graphics, but I tried SC3k and it was just awful compared to this one. As someone posted earlier, it felt cartoonish and kind of clunky compared to this version.
A True Classic February 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
SimCity 2000 has features that the other SimCity titles do not.
Sure, the graphics will be forever dated and the title is old, but it is still a classic and worthy of a purchase today. (I saw one on sale in the Wal-Mart bargain bin for $10.)
The reasons it is valuable today for SimCity fans today is twofold.
First, the unique features the other SimCity titles don't have. There is one archetecture type called the Arcology, and there are four types of buildings, each with its own pros and cons. The Arcologies are basically massive population density centers (that only take up a 4x4 tilespace) that can hold between 20,000 and 65,000 residents in them.
When the time period and city size requirements have been met, these expensive buildings obviously will shoot your city's population up dramatically. Of course, the City Ordinance levying an Income Tax males sense here to bring in more dough, and you definitely need to provide utilities and jobs to these new, squinched residents.
Another unique SimCity 2000 feature is the budget specialization you can perform: tax rates for individual industries (considering market supply and demand) and ordinances.
The second reason why SimCity 2000 is a valuable video game way up to now (Year 2007) is its convenience. The price tag and game play requirements are now universally accepted by everyone. Also, the SCURK (SimCity Urban Renewal Kit) allows for the customization of your city's landscape and buildings, and often times is as addictive as the game itself.
Sure, SimCity 2000 doesn't hold a candle to SimCity 3000 Unlimited or SimCity 4, but it will be a welcome edition to any Sim fan until the end of time. (Like the song "My Girl" by the Temptations - it will FOREVER be a good song for any generation.)
best game ever December 23, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
i love this game i remeber when i was a teen. It was the hot game at my school. I loved this game. Now i am getting it for my little boy
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