Simcity 2000 Strategies and Secrets [Paperback]

Daniel A. Tauber (Author), Brenda Kienan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1995

This edition includes new information on SimCity 2000. Tested strategies are presented for winning SimCity Scenarios. It has been written with the co-operation of players who reveal their secrets and tricks. It covers all three versions of SimCity 2000: DOS; Windows; and Mac.

Product Details

• Paperback: 323 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; Special edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782116647
• ISBN-13: 978-0782116649
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #954,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended., July 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Simcity 2000 Strategies and Secrets (Paperback)

My kids like this book, I like this book, you'll like this book. It's full of insight and strategies and written with enough wit to make it real fun. Can't recommend it highly enough.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners only., June 8, 1999

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This review is from: Simcity 2000 Strategies and Secrets (Paperback)

This book would be an useful companion to beginners of the game, but it's not much use to experienced players who already know how to build large, happy cities. I was hoping to find more detailed technical information on, for example, exactly what effect various measures have on property value or crime, etc. - in short, for "charts, graphs, and numbers" - and I was utterly disappointed. This book provides hardly any more technical info than the manual, and includes much info that is redundant (e.g. every time a zone or item is described, the authors twll you how to connect it to the power grid. duh). On the positive side, it did provide me a few ideas for experimenting (especially with zones) which were fruitful. A good companion for beginners confused by the game's mechanics, but just not worth the money otherwise.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great SimCity beginners' reference book, May 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Simcity 2000 Strategies and Secrets (Paperback)

This book is the second best SimCity 2000 book I've ever read, but its true value shines only in the face of a beginner. This book is one of the few that can send a point with words and pictures instead of graphs, tables, and labels that are incomprehensible to a poor beginner who hardly knows what 'SC2K' stands for. It is like a dog whistle- only the lower life forms (mainly dogs) can hear and obey it easily. This works for experience- newbies canactually understand the material. If you're an experienced player, you can still get some stuff out of it, but there are much better books with graphs, hexadecimals, tables, and the like to portray superior knowledge unnecessary for building a small, self-satisfying (if you're a beginner) city to cherish through rain and through sunshine, through thick and through thin, for richer and for poorer... anyway, it's a good book. To be brief... BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT NOW!