User Rating: 9.6 | SimCity 4: Rush Hour PC
Great expansion pack. Adds tons of new features, some small and some drastic. The route query tool is probably the best new feature of all, for it lets you see how your sims are getting to work and what roads they are using. How the game figures out which routes the sims take is a bit crude, because the sims will ALWAYS take the shortest route, dispite the fact that the shortest road may be a street and theres road or wide avenue just a couple tiles above it. However, now with the tool you can see that and adjust the street layout (for example disconnect the street so you force your sims to take the road above it). My second favorite addition is large elementary schools, high schools, fire station, police station, water pump, and etc., which are more realstic and hold basically do more, so for large cities so you dont have to build a lot over and over. My third favorite addition, surprisingly, is toll booths which you can plop on any road or highway. Sims doesnt seem to complain about the tolls they gotta pay so its a great easy way to make some bucks. So out of all the great new features, I find some of the smaller features are the best. The BIG BIG features, U drive it, is pretty boring to me, and gets annoying. Another great thing about the exp is the new music....not jazzy tunes but more orchestra stuff. Some really great catchy tunes! Overall, this is a great expanstion pack that any simcity 4 fan can't do without.
