Customer Reviews

SimCity 2000 Special Edition

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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!

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.

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

Sim City 2000 is a great game for anyone who wants a challenge and of course a ton of FUN!! In this game you are the mayor and you control the fate of your city. You build the roads, power plant(s), and other special buildings, do the zoning, and let the Sims do the rest. However disasters do happen. So be on the alert! Tornadoes, earthquakes and much more can decimate your city! HERE ARE SOME HELPFUL HINTS AND SECRETS FOR YOU:

1) When building roads make the area within them 6x6. Sims like to be three spaces or less away from roads on all sides of them.

2) When zoning put industrial at least three spaces away from residencial. Hey, would you like living nextdoor to a noisy, smelly, smokey factory? Well I sure wouldn't!!

3) If you don't want disasters to happen to your city, simply click on the "Disasters" bar at the top of the screen and select "No Disasters."

4) Finally, if you want to know the ultimate code then hear this: All you have to do is type in the letters: imacheat

When the first version of SimCity was released, it took the gaming world by storm. Now, with SimCity's second release, realism has exploded drastically, with more 3D buildings, Urban Renewal Kit (a program designed to let you build a city with unlimited funding and no citizens, than import it into SimCity), and improved disasters. Every gamer, casual or serious, ought to have their own copy of the latest SimCity.

I bought this game because it was on sale for about $10 at Staples. I don't regret buying it, but after a while it gets boring. They don't have many things to build with and the people are always complaining about everything. Sometimes i just flood the place and build a new city. The abandoned buildings are an eyesore so I usually end up deystroying them. Then when you go to clean up the ashes, it costs like $1 per little square. They only start you with $20,000 on the easy level. I would suggest going into the urban city rebuilder and building your city there and then importing it to the game. You save a lot of money that way and you can design the land to be a valley or a hill without all the expense. All in all, a good game.

Great game if you have lots of free time. If you don't, beware; it will suck you in.

This game is a great game for anyone who enjoys simulation games. The point of the game is to build a money-making metropolis. You start with a gigantic plot of land, your goal is to build and make your sims (simulated residents of your city) happy. You can do this by not raising taxes to high and supplying their demands. The game simulates time very fast but you can pause and modulate the speed. Overall, this game was great but the graphics are bad and gameplay is nothing compared to Sim City 3000.

Like most people, my kids would love to have complete control over their world. Perhaps that explains the enjoyment they get from SimCity, even though the graphics on this version are outdated, and the onscreen movement is slow.

While I know part of the appeal for my kids involves the ability to blow up cities with which they are not happy, they do stay with it, learning from the mistakes of the failed cities. Along the way, they are gaining an understanding of the real apsects of city development--power grids, economy, education, controlled growth and government. The terminology involved in basic civics classes is introduced in a way even grade school kids can understand.

While placing limits on any video entertainment is a good idea, I don't mind so much when they are playing Sim, saying yes when they ask, "Can we just play a little longer?"

i thought this game could have been better from maxis sim city 3000 is much better so go check it out instead of sim city 2000