SimCity 4 Preview on Gamespot!

[Imran Siddiqui]

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10869,2863198,00.html

More screenshots too .

REALLY like the stuff about neighborhoods and different districts !

[Kyle]

'Bout time they "officially" announced it. Looking to be quite nice.

[Urban Ranger]

This one could be good.

[Juggler]

The disasters look especially cool.

[Dis]

I have never played sim city before, but have always wanted to. Is the old game on freeware or anything? I was going to buy simcity 3000 but never did. I would probably get bored too quickly like I did of the Sims. But I still want to try.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Dissident
I have never played sim city before, but have always wanted to. Is the old game on freeware or anything? I was going to buy simcity 3000 but never did. I would probably get bored too quickly like I did of the Sims. But I still want to try.

You can play the original SimCity online at www.simcity.com
under the "Classic Live" link.


Just need to sign up for the site.


The others can probably be gotten very cheaply.

[Lemmy]

"SimCity 2 and SimCity 3000 have basically been elaborate revisions of the first game," said Maxis producer Kevin Hogan. "We're doing more than just giving SimCity 4 an updated look."

didn't they say something like that about civ3? that it would be totally new and everything

First, you're no longer limited to building on flat ground. Small houses and office buildings can be constructed on sloped terrain, and you'll be able to see the angled foundations underneath those structures.

finally

overal it looks good, nice changes, for example you can now build bridges over canyones
but i wonder how the industry will work...

[tniem]

I loved the original SimCity and enjoyed SimCity 2000. I never could get into SimCity 3000 because it was too much the same. So I would like to ask a couple questions of things that I always wanted in the game and am not sure if they appeared in 3k.

1. Are there toll roads? Payments for bus service? A way to make money off of city municipalities?

I always wanted this option. Another way to make income, at the cost of less pop happiness.

2. Was there tourism?

3. Was it as hard to build a power plant as it was in SimCity 2k?

4. Was it as fun as the original?

I guess these are my concerns for SimCity4. But I am glad Maxis is returning to this classic. Now, if they would make another SimTower, I loved that game...

[Sarxis]

Didn't see any Archologies in those screenshots.

More Trepidation.

[Triped]

Maxis better make this game simple to play...I hate having too many decisions to make in these games.

[Urban Ranger]

The original one was very good. Innovate, as it were. The sequels so far, hm, nah.

[Adagio]

Damn...this looks promising, I really like that day/night thing, and the morning fog sounds great

[Juggler]

It sure does look promising.
I bought SimCity3000 and I'm not sorry, it's a great game (although it really is too similar to SC2000). But I don't mind that because the graphics were much better and it seems as that SimCity 4 won't disappoint me either.

[Imran Siddiqui]

The original one was very good. Innovate, as it were. The sequels so far, hm, nah.

I liked SimCity 2000 better than the original. 3000 was just an updated graphic set.

[Az]

Arcologies ? I really hated those. To the end, my city was nothing but SpaceArchologies , Fusion Powerstations, and a sqare with altering water/pump rows.

The 3000 has WAY more land. I'd really like that it would have more land , plus , more exact zoning , like : casino, commercial distict, etc. or at least more levels of zoning , such as sky scrapers. and I mean HIGH , not those little silver towers.