SimCity (time well spent compared to Civ?)

[XarXo]

I love Sim City! I spent days and months in Sim City 2000. Arcologies were great!

BTW, I was very disappointed with SC3000, I expect the best for SC4 (day and night, etc...) but a good thing to include in the game is history evolution, from the dense walled medieval cities to the actual. Is by far more interesting than the actual american city building (this is, huge skyscrappers with an extensive small houses ring area).

Also, a great new disaster could be a war.

Final Note: In SC2K a fire starts when an airplane crashes with a tall building

[Space05us]

and you can shoot down the helicopters and airplanes by clicking on them.

[tniem]

And does anyone like sports?

How about baseball?



Or golf?


Or forget it all and go to the fair.



Everything I see makes me want this game.

[Adagio]

I'd also like to spend some time at the farm



Damn nice pictures

Now the question is: Can my computer even run the game? With all these details...I hope they'll make some demo or something, so I don't spend tons of money on a game I can't run...

[Eli]

/me drools.

[tniem]

I am so excited. It is going to be great.

I hope that golf and the fair are things that you can build. That means there will be tons of different buildings and things for your cities. I would assume the farm is light industry but I guess we will find out this fall.

[Space05us]

I have no words to express how much Im anticipating this game.

[FlameFlash]

/me joins Eli in drooling...

[Mr. President]

Even though SimCity 3000 has some compatibility issues with my computer, I think I should get this game just because it looks so cool.

/me drools too

[Grumbold]

Will the UK version have cricket instead of baseball?

[Adagio]

I don't hope so, since the rest of europe gets the UK version... If they make the UK version to have the people driving in the wrong side of the street, then there's no doubt I'll download the (US) warez version (But still buy the game)...

[Heresson]

Sim City was a great game for me. It was a first game to really interest me - in times when I had atari only and I could play it jsut at firends or on holidays with my family.
Unfortunatelly, the game was too quick to be solved, later it was getting tedious a bit... Al was going too well... And the map was too small - it's a bit better in SC 3000, but somehow it didn't make me build magnificent cities like in
SC2000, of which all my great cities such as Eupatria,
Edirne and Glupolek...
Streats of Sim City sucked.
nevertheless, I think it is one of teh best games ever.
Oh, i didn't liek the thing that You couldn't build on slopes.
Eventually it was all ending in a completely flat map for me,
as destroying a half of your city wasn't anything problematic.
I think that if You destroy sth, You should pay for the land again - that would be better.

[Adagio]

Here's a quote from the SimCity4 site, about the release date:

Maxis is moving the launch of SimCity 4 and The Sims for the PS2 to January 2003. We know you're looking forward to both games and that this might be a disappointment. You should know that both titles are looking great and are a blast to play. Moving them to the beginning of next year will give us the opportunity to do a little extra fine-tuning and polishing of the games. We'll also be revamping SimCity.com and posting the most up to date information regarding both games on our websites. Thanks for your continued support and be sure to visit TheSims.com and SimCity.com for the latest details.

Hmmm...now I have more time to get some money, to be able to upgrade my computer

[FlameFlash]

It's nice to see that they're being serious about putting out a serious and in good working order product. So many companies just post so many patches...

[Space05us]

wont it miss christmas though? thats not normally something game makers do... maybe its a sign that this will truely be 'THE SIM CITY'