SimCity 2000 Review for PC

SimCity 2000 Review

This is the most popular sim of all time, cranked up to a high-tech gloss and packaged with all the popular expansion sets.

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.

By Chris Hudak, GameSpotPosted May 1, 1996 12:00 am PT

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the_ghost_ops

9.0
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One of the best game that I ever played when i was young and i still own the game! Continue »
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Sim City 2000 is definetly a game you can burn a lot of hours on. Continue »

SimCity 2000

Maxis
Modern City-Building
Release: Feb 28, 1995 »
ESRB: Everyone

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4,279 of 80,015
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PC Rank:

1,546 of 12,654

Tracking:

988 Track It»

Wishlists:

79 Wish It»
Player Reviews:

25

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1774

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155
Game Universe:
- SimCity 4 (PC, MAC),
- SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition,
- SimCity Societies,
- SimCity 4: Rush Hour (PC, MAC),
- SimCity 3000 (PC, MAC),
- SimCity Societies: Destinations,
- SimCity 3000 Unlimited (PC, UNIX),
- SimCity 2000: Network Edition,
- Streets of SimCity,
- SimCity 2000 (PC, SNES, MAC, SAT, GBA)
Number of Players:

1 Player
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