SimCity 2000 Special Edition

by Electronic Arts

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• ASIN: B00001NFSY
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,569 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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GameSpot 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. 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. --Chris Hudak/SpotMedia Communications
--Copyright ©1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Game, February 9, 2001

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Jolene M. Williams "pittstonjoma" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SimCity 2000 Special Edition (CD-ROM)

This is a pretty decent game. It is very hard to play at first, but after a few days, you will get the hang of it. You can personalize your city using the Urban Renewal Kit. You can even paint your buidings, and/or you can place cool buildings in your city whenever you want. The only problem that I have with the game is the lack of funding for your city. You have to issue many bonds, which are very hard to pay off. Nevertheless, this game is fun, and I recommend it to everyone. With patience, you'll be building a lot of cities! Remember: Build a power plant first. You can't have a city without electricity, right? Start your city near a lake or river and build a lot of water pumps. Build them on the shores of your body of water. Connect the pumps with power lines from your power plant. Now build some zones. Connect them with roads, power,and water pipes from your water pumps. Now build a hospital, a school,a college, a police station, a fire department, and a jail. You might also want to build stadiums and/or parks. Remember the pipes, roads, and power lines. Fund everything at least 80% and listen to what people have to say about your city so you don't have problems. Good Luck!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Development, March 30, 2000

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T. - See all my reviews

This review is from: SimCity 2000 Special Edition (CD-ROM)

This game introduced me at a young age to communial development planning, and money management. This game is, I guess you could say, one to grow with, it takes time and it helps one to learn along the way. I'd also like to add that it helps, especially a younger mind, to experience freedom with their money allowing them to spend it as they choose. If he/she spends it unwisely (go bankrupt) that person will know to become better managers of their money the next time.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This game rules, May 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: SimCity 2000 Special Edition (CD-ROM)

I love this game you get to build your own city and get farther and farther you get to do ton's of stuff when you have at least 2,000 sim's you get a mayor's house when you reach 10,000 sims you get a city hall at 30,000 sim's you get something cool like a statue and at 60,000 the military ask's if you want a military base and at 120,000 you get arcologie's you can have 4 kind's of military base's you can have army, navy,airforce, and missile silo's we'll any way the game rock's and there's nothing wrong with it that's why i gave it five star's plus i love maxis game's