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Simcity 2000 Strategies and Secrets

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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.

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.

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!

This book is loaded with tips and strategies for the new user. Its taught me how to manage a city with full potential and confidence. If you want to succede in SimCity get this book

I bought this book because when ever I would try to start a city I would go into debt and then have to start a new city.This book really helped me.It gave me tips and some new ideas.This book is worth buying

If you want to use SimCity 2000 to it's full potential, this book is your best bet. It gives general info and advanced info for the Mac, Dos, and Windows versions of the game. It also includes the famous Easter Egg codes that will let you do even more with the game than ever. It's the best pick of all the SimCity 2000 books.