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SimCity 2000 Special Edition (Jewel Case)

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SimCity 2000 has been around for awhile, but don't let that hold you back from buying it, especially at this price. Although not as graphically beautiful as SimCity 3000, it is considerably more playable and almost as detailed. In addition to the ability to design and build your own city, something that can be endlessly fascinating, there are several interesting scenarios good for an hour or two of play. Also, this game is well worth your consideration if you have an older computer. It runs beautifully on everything from a 486-66 up.

If you haven't played SimCity 2000 yet, you owe it to yourself to check out the game I firmly believe was Maxis' finest creation.

When I first got this game, I installed it, put my colors up to 256, and started playing. Since I was used to the original "SimCity", I thought the zoning feature was very weird. It took a while for me to realize that you need to put powerlines THROUGH the zone. Well, after I mastered that, I then found out there is a water system. Oh boy! That took about an hour to master that, then I went on to master the bevy of other add-on's. My suggestion is this: when you first get this game, make a city that's just for experiments. Put the year in 2050, and build everything you can. That way you get the idea of what each thing is. Anyways, for those people that want to know how good the game is: graphics are great! They probably aren't as good as "SimCity 3000", but my computer can't handle that (stupid Pentium 1). After you make a huge metropolis, though, there starts to be HUGE buildings, and you can't see through those unless you set the veiwing to a different setting. Learning curve is about like a small cliff; you start off learning and experimenting. The game is difficult at the beginning. However, after you get past the beginning, it's pretty moderate after that. Plane crashes are very annoying. If you have a tall building by your airport, the plane will ram right into it. That's when the option of "no desasters" comes in handy. Sound is really cool because you get to hear your city working! Well, this is a great game! Oh yeah, this edition also comes with a program where you can make your own tile set and city for free.

SIM City 2000 is one of the easiest games on PC to play and it is great fun too. Build a city from scratch and watch it grow. With a loan from the bank you can start your own electronic world and you're in charge BIG-TIME. As your city gets bigger so do the needs of your blossoming population and let me tell you they aren't always to please. They want schools, hospitals, police and fire departments, libraries and museums and they are also greedy for entertainment such as stadiums, parks and zoos. To get the money in you have to make the city pay for itself, so taxes are the order of the day, and cutting costs just part of day-to-day living in a SIM world. You get totally wrapped up in your city, especially as it evolves with time and eventually looks like something out of Star-Trek. The instructions are easy to follow, and the graphics are chunky and colorful. The sound effects are pretty neat too, and you get a choice of disasters to inflict on your city if you are feeling especially nasty. A great game and at a great affordable price too.

Simcity 2000 is a simulation game. You play the major of simcity, You have to construct it very well and attract a lot of people and the game never ends. It is very easy to learn and a lot of fun to play. The controls are great and very easy to use. You start the game by first taking a lone from the bank and then start constructing your city by putting roads then placing Power plants and connect them to powerlines that runs through the city for electric power, Water pumps, Water Towers and underground pipes for water supply, Residential zones, Commercial Zones, Industrial zones, Parks, Zoo and Stadium for entertainment, Schools, College, Hospitals, Police stations, Fire stations ect and then issue taxes to the people who come to your city. You can't place them anywhere you want, If you place a residential area near a powerplant no one will come, If you issue a lot of taxes then people will start to leave, The public will protest if you destroy forests, If you destroy lots of buildings A large mob lead by your mother will throw you out of town (play the game and find out what it means), You have to plan very carefully by not spending a lot of money too as there is a limit to how much you can borrow from the bank. Sc2k comes with a screnario editor for creating your own cities and it is very easy to do so. Sc2k is a 2D game but the graphics very bright and clear and the game runs very well. Simcity 2000 is one of the best computer games of all time, It is a must for all simulation / strategy fans.

This was the first game I ever played on a computer (way back in 1994) and am I still playing it. It's that good.

The concept is simple; build a city from the ground up and face all the challenges a real mayor running a city would. It's that simple concept that makes SC2k horribly addictive, especially at first. After you've built your dream city, there's still so much to do...make a rural town, enviromentally sound city, a city built on top a mountain, and so on.

The scenarios are challenging and fun. Even for the best player they can take many tries to master. Everytime you play you learn something new about the game. I also think people fail to mention the wonderful newspaper. It is filled with silly articles that are a laugh (but get the problems of the city across). Read articles on your local cricket team, or new developments in those weird lookin' arcologies.

The included Urban Renewal kit is a blast, and the free-city building is especially fun if you have SimCopter or Streets of SimCity because you can design the wackiest or coolest cities to fly or drive through.

A whole world is at your fingertips with SimCity 2000.

Let me start off this review by saying that I absolutely DESPISE all computer and video games. I think that they exist merely to waste people's time, which can be wasted in much better ways.

Sim City 2000 is one of the few exceptions to this rule.

It enables you to build virtual cities on your computer. You can engineer your own landscape and use the Urban Renewal kit to design new buildings and place them wherever you wish. The other two SimCity games are slightly flawed. This one is the best, with three-dimentional, yet simple graphics and lots of interesting ways to plan out your city. It may be highly addictive, but at least you're thinking about something other than killing people.

This is worth much more than its price.

I own the first three Sim City games, so when I got this one, I was used to playing the first Sim City, so I struggled with the interface changes and new additions. But when I began to be successful, I started to really love the funny newspapers, rewards, and other good things, so I am a convert. It's a shame that SimCity 3000 failed to compel me half as much. Buy this one and abort your search for fancy graphics: once you master this game, you won't care that they aren't in crisp 3D.

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.)

I think sim city is the best, even if it doesn't have the best graphics(it has pretty good ones any way) it is a classic I'll never forget. I say everyone should have sim-city2000!

Ah, SimCity 2000 ... the SimCity of my youth. This was one of my greatest procrastination techniques in high school. I distinctly recall playing it when I should have been working on papers and college applications. This game gives the player a great degree of control - landscaping, zoning, building. It does not focus on individual Sims, as the later versions do, but its less complicated nature is refreshing. It works well on Windows XP; I installed it last year, and now all my (adult) friends want to play too!