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SimCity 3000: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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The eye-catching "Official Strategy Guide" and Maxis-style front cover promise much, but this book is a grave disappointment. While it may be of use to those who have never used SimCity before, anyone looking for the in-depth information which is alluded to will be left wanting.

The few titbits of useful information which are provided, such as the land value calculation on p68, are poorly explained and make one wonder how much the author actually understands his subject.

Chapter 3 is pure padding - it just lists Maxis' own table of differences between SC2000 and SC3000. A useful-sounding appendix giving a list of power consumption values (p94) and "specific consumption figures" (p132) is alas missing from the book entirely. The number of fundamental errors which should have been caught by even trivial proofreading is _awful_: 3x3=16 (p57); 5x4500=4500 (p58).

Put these things together and you have a complete waste of money...

This is better than the other SC3k guides out there, but it's hardly great. Some of the charts such as NIMBY and land value effects are great, but they can also be contradictory, probably due to stupid mistakes that should've been caught in editing. They really should fix all the problems with this guide and re-release it. A game this good deserves a better guide and a game this difficult warrants one.

This is probably the best strategy guide available for SimCity 3000...but that isn't much of a compliment. Considering what an excellent game this is, I find this surprising. The guide did provide a lot of indepth and technical information about the game--I'm not sure how useful it is but it's there anyway. However, the book reiterates a lot of info over and over again which makes for tedious reading. I'd recomend this book only because there isn't really a better alternative...a better effort should have been made.

Okay, Prima is one of the a respectable company that produces great game guides. While reading this guide I discovered that Prima is perfect either. This book was lacking in the accuracy department and should be improved, though we all know that will never happen, D---!

Like many Prima strategy guides, this one was released not because the writer has any great insight into SimCity, but because they want your money. It's full of typos, the charts contain totally inaccurate information, and half of the things promised on the back of the book ("suggestions for exciting landscapes!") aren't actually covered. The actual advice in the book is awful hack-work -- though if you search carefully through the $19.95 book you ought to be able to find about one or two hints.

I'll say it is good, but not great. At least it should have a chapter to make a great city. But it is better then the other SC 3000 books I seen.

This help guide states it the begining that it will not repeat many of the objectives that the manual has gone over, however with the exception of a few helpful charts this book really isn't worth the money, because it does repeat a lot of things, there are not any cheat codes either.

"Primas Official Strategy Guide to SimCity 3000 contains everything you need to build a successful megalopolis in the fourth millennium" that just goes to show how little they actualy know about the game. It's not based in the future, it's based NOW. Did they just read the title of the game and make a book? It's called Sim city 3000 becuase it's the 3rd generation, not based in the year 3000. Find out what the game is about befor making a description guys!

even though the game didn't live up to what the company said it is still a good guide.

i can get the guide free with the game at sams club. there's a buch of typos in it i bet just like all the guides prima makes