Customer Reviews

SimCity 3000 Unlimited

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Ever since the debut of the original simulator eons ago (I remember wasting countless hours on it on my Commodore 128) people have ritualistically purchased the next two versions. Both have been wonderful improvements. Although the basic format has been preserved from Sim City 2000, many details have been modified. The graphics in Sim City 3000 are much cleaner and detailed than its predecessor's. You also get to control trade with your neighbors, including deals for the sale and purchase of water, electricity, and garbage. That's right, garbage. In Sim City 3000 you must also manage landfills and trash-burning power plants to keep your city clean. You also have much more control over ordinances.

This time around, the game is also much more glitch-free. You should have less trouble building that road you want exactly where you want it. Also, a very disgusting aspect of Sim City 2000, the arcologies, has been removed. The problem with this is, they just vanish if you use the 'import' feature in Sim City 3000 to bring in your old cities. Oh well. Deal with maintaining a real city.

All in all a great game. The improvements aren't obvious at first, but play a bit and you'll see how much more enjoyable it is while still maintaining its classic touch.

It's about what I expected, having played every previous iteration of this software. It's addictively fun.

Thank you, Loki, for porting it to Linux!

i am very happy to have gotten a good game for linux. it runs well. i had one small problem, but once i ran the update patch everything was smooth sailing. i play it quite a bit. like i said, GREAT GAME!

Came in time, no issues at all, just like new! I've been looking for this game for a while, and found it on here! Thanks! : )

The grafik is much better in this game than it was in Sim city 2000. In this game thers a lot more buildings. You can choose between low- medium high density zones when you place the zones for building residental, comercial or industries. this makes it to al lot of variety in the buildings pops up later. There's anew systemfor taking cae of the citys garbage. otherwise the game is very much like the games before it. But i'd say it's a funny game. Very entertaining to see the city grow and expand before your eyes.

I am a Windows XP turned Mac OS X user interested in trying Linux sometime soon and was pleased to discover SimCity 3000 Unlimited available for Linux. I wonder what distribution of Linux is this available for specifically? Also where can I find SimCity 4 for the Linux platform? I am moving away from Windows and don't want to get to attached to the Mac for gaming -- still want to use my PC for gaming once in a while but don't want to get too dependent on the monopolistic software giant in Redmond. Apple in the long run it can be argued is just as bad -- at least they embrace some open source technologies but Mac OS X is still proprietary. The salvation of PC gamers should be Linux. I do not even use Microsoft XBox systems for the same reasons I am trying to move away from Windows gaming. I will not upgrade to Vista and am content with my existing PC running XP and my Mac Mini with OS X Tiger. However, I am happy to add a Linux installation as well.

Any ideas where I can get a newer version of SimCity for Linux?

Ive always loved The Original Simcity,and Simcity 2000. Simcity 3000 Unlimited is based on Simcity 2000's concept but with new (better looking) buildings,a few new disasters,and some new layers of simluation such as garbage,city trade,petitioners, and all that stuff. Great game thou!

The other ones were great and this one is great.I like new ways how to destroy your city.My friend has it also and he says it is great.It's really cool with the houses and stuff.

This game was a real surprise to me...NOT. This game really stunk in my point of view. The graphics are blocky, and tornados rip through almost eery 2.5 seconds. Think about it this way, you build a magnificent, huge, great, titanic, supreme metropolis, only to have 6600 natural disasters to rip through in a week leaving your town in shambles. This game is a real disgrace to the PC. The modes are similar to each other so that, you can say the whole game copied itself 10 times over! the only interesting part of this nasty object is that the objects that you can create outrageous buildings and spaceships. All, in All, this game should be buried for life!