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3.4 out of 5 stars 1,352
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  • Create, build and run the most realistic city you can imagine
  • Connect your metropolis with other cities you've created to form a massive region of SimCities
  • Sculpt mountains, gouge valleys, and seed forests
  • Deploy police cruisers and fire trucks to the scene
  • For 1 player

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition turns you into a citizen, a criminal, an architect, a mayor, even a god -- bringing you deeper into SimLife than ever! As you create railways, ferries, plan out streets, you also get to use that transportation in a series of great new driving mission!

System Requirements
Minimum Specifications: OS: Windows XP only
Processor: P3 500 (or equivalent)
RAM: 256MB Hard Drive: 1.2 GB
Video Card: 32MB supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 or greater compatible driver Additional Info: None

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3.4 out of 5 stars
3.4 out of 5
1,352 global ratings
Terrible game- Doesn't render properly!
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Terrible game- Doesn't render properly!
This is THE WORST computer game I've ever bought. The game design looks like it would be really cool and there are a lot of features, so it has the potential to be a very detailed and interesting game. I bought this on a whim after obsessively playing SimCity Buildit on my phone and wishing for a similar game that didn't encourage you to spends real money on in-game items. Unfortunately the rendering is HORRIBLE. I can't play the game because it won't render propely. When I move around the screen black triangles and white areas show up and the landscape geometry changes. My roads disappear, I can't see my buildings properly, and it's just an all-around nightmare. I know it's highly unlikely to be my computer because my computer handles significantly more graphics-intense games with ease and has no problems rendering them. I don't know if there was an error with the downloadable version of this game or if the game is just terrible, but I'm really glad I only wasted $5 on this. The graphics in the SimCity Buildit app are incredible compared to the graphics of SimCity4, which just adds insult to injury. It's so sad beause it really had the potential to be great.Do yourself a huge favor: Go on Steam (steamcommunity.com) and download Cities- Skylines. It is a much better and more in-depth game, which I found after downloading this SimCity disaster.
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Turjan
5.0 out of 5 stars Still excellent after all these years.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013
Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
I guess I must have been living under a rock for all these years. SimCity 4 just passed its 10th anniversary, so it is not a new game by any means. I just now discovered this game, and I have to say that I'm blown away. It really is that good. The graphics look still good on a modern computer, even if they cannot compete with a modern city builder like Cities XL. However, SimCity 4 is the better game. The graphics are 2D and the view angle is fixed, but you can rotate the view to each of the 4 cardinal directions, which allows you to look "behind" structures that obstruct your view.

Do not expect anything like the Sims, even if there is a halfhearted attempt to include features from the first game with that name within this one. Of all SimCity games, this iteration puts probably most emphasis on the city simulation part. If you like to build several cities in a region, this one is for you. While this is possible with the vanilla game alone, it should be mentioned that an active modding community has been making content for this game for the last ten years, and some of it may completely change your game experience. This aspect gives the game another life beyond the possibilities the base game offers.

There are already many reviews available that describe the game in detail, so let me just add a technical note. The amazon description of the game is clear in mentioning that this is only thought for Windows XP. If you missed that note and have a newer system like Windows 7, you may experience lots of crashes, but don't give up too quickly. Don't use WinXP compatibility mode, that won't help. But the fix is easy. You can take the shortcut on your desktop or in the Start menu that you use to start the game, go to "Properties" and add the following to the "Target" line after the shortcut url (Don't forget to put a blank after the quotation mark that ends the url):

-CPUCount:1 (this restricts the game to one CPU core, which keeps everything in lockstep)

This fixed all my crashes. Other helpful parameters (all separated by blanks)

-CustomResolution:enabled (enables more screen resolutions than the ones in the ingame options)
-r[W]x[Y]x[Z] (your screen resolution, for example -r1920x1080x32 for a 1080p widescreen monitor with 32 bit colors)
-Intro:off (skips the intro video)

Full example syntax (will vary for your computer):
"E:\Programs2\Simcity 4\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -CPUCount:1 -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -Intro:off

I wish you much fun with this game!
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sinner619
1.0 out of 5 stars Sim City Fail
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2009
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
This game is terrible. I love the old Sim City games, especially 3000. They obviously put a lot of effort into the graphics on this one and they are very good, but the game is a train wreck. They should have stuck to the old engine, but beefed up the amount of things you can do. They should have just added more and more detail, more buildings, more control over city functions, control over climate (global location) when building terrains, more detail in running a city, and then some better graphics. Being able to build cities in arctic surroundings or deserts would be neat. But no, they have to make it so convoluted that just getting started makes you want to scream. Some of the things they added are OK ideas, but it's such a bad game that none of that matters. I found building starting terrains to be an extremely long process in this one. I could have definitely done without the driving around saving the day and using helicopters to fight crime. That whole aspect really seems to belong in some other game. I know that some people may like it, but I think they should have focused on what has made the series what it is. It's only my opinion, but this game gives me a headache just thinking about it and compared to it's predecessors it's a joke. It's like they tried to jazz it up way too much. Isn't part of the reason these games have sold in the past been because people like to just build away? It doesn't need to be slowly morphed into grand theft auto in order to improve it. Definitely the worst of the series that I've ever played. The old Dos version beats this one hands down.
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Mace Foster
5.0 out of 5 stars IT WORKS UNDER WINDOWS 8!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013
Platform For Display: PC DownloadEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
When I saw that a new version of Sim City was due on store shelves, I had a bit of nostalgia and lamented that I was never able to get the original Deluxe version of Sim CIty 4 to work on my Windows 7 PC.

I read some other customer reviews and decided that, for the price, I'd give it a shot.

To my great surprise and joy, this digital download from Amazon installed easily on Windows 8, and without any additional fiddling required with settings or shortcuts, it launched and I was playing through the familiar tutorial in no time.

What's better is that I had some backups from my old Windows XP computer, and had all of my old cities on backup DVD. Using the import feature within the game, I was able to bring all my hard work into the modern age, and I was back in business as mayor of millions of sims.

Like the original game, this is very processor and video intensive. If you have your video settings on maximum and have a large city with a large population, your game will be brought to its knees. I was hoping that with the additional processing power of a more modern CPU and twenty times the video card that was available when this game hit the shelves, there would be a dramatic improvement in how the game ran. This was an incorrect assumption. BUT WHO CARES!!! IT WORKS! I cranked the video detail settings down, and now the game works fine, even in my cities with populations nearing 1 million.

I realize it's silly to get so excited about a decade-old video game, but this was a really enjoyable game, and just hearing the soundtrack made me smile from ear to ear.

Great game. Great download. Thank you, Amazon!
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Sergio
3.0 out of 5 stars La caja viene sin precinto
Reviewed in Spain on August 9, 2023
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
Aparentemente bien pero la caja viene sin precinto.
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myagi
4.0 out of 5 stars Fabuleux jeu pc
Reviewed in France on October 12, 2019
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
Jeu sympathique de simulation de gestion de ville ,il faut un certain pour se mettre dans le bain
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The Reviewer....
5.0 out of 5 stars Spend Hours Creating And Destroying.....Works With Windows 7
Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2015
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
Quick Review:
One can spend countless hours building, creating and destroying different cities.
You can build cool things like army bases, banks, airports, and just about anything else you can think of.
Biggest challenge is making sure you are balancing the needs of your city with the costs associated.
Overall, this is a pretty good game and even though it is older it's still quite a bit of fun!
The addition of Rush Hour just adds to this great deal.
Loads of cool features to explore with the Rush Hour Expansion Pack.
Now my 8 year old has installed it on his laptop and simply adores it.
NOTE that this works great with my Windows 7 system as well as my sons Windows 8.1.
No issues running the program on either system so far.
Recommend!
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gosamone
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo gioco, ma per non avere problemi dovrete ripiegare su Windows XP
Reviewed in Italy on September 20, 2016
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
il prodotto è arrivato in condizioni perfette e in tempi rapidissimi e con un prezzo concorrenziale (aiutato anche dal fatto che non è più un gioco recentissimo).
Sul mio Core 2 Duo del 2010 e Windows 7 ho riscontrato qualche difficoltà a farlo partire (probabilmente dovute più a Windows 7 a 64 bit che al processore) e ho dovuto quindi ripiegare su un'installazione di Windows XP che lo ha fatto girare senza il minimo problema.

Parlando del gioco in sé, diciamo subito che questo è senza dubbio un titolo che non ha rivali nel suo genere, sicuramente il migliore nel settore della simulazione/gestionale.
Come avvenne per The Sims il gioco è accompagnato da una colonna sonora ricca ed estremamente rilassante, di piacevolissimo ascolto.
Per quanto riguarda la grafica, non posso negare che il gioco, date le mappe ampie e ricche di dettagli, fatichi un po' ad ingranare con schede grafiche non recenti, specialmente per quel che riguarda le fasi iniziali del gioco, in cui scorrendo sulla città col cursore vengono scoperte vaste aree della città che vengono repentinamente caricate in memoria. Abbassando di poco il dettaglio riuscirete comunque a trovare la combinazione ideale per la vostra macchina.
Che dire, siamo di fronte ad un titolo completo, che ha saputo trarre dalle precedenti edzioni quanto di più buono vi fosse e di fondere il tutto con una ritrovata eleganza che fa di questo insieme un prodotto d'eccellenza, affatto dedicato ad una nicchia ristretta di addicted, bensì aperto al pubblico di tutte le età.
Si rischia di passare ore insonni se non si guarda l'orologio quando si gioca!

Pro:
Livello del dettaglio grafico veramente alto, di raffinata realizzazione.
Elegante ed intuitivo.
La città non è più un mondo a parte ma il tassello di un progetto molto più ampio
E' Sim City... c'è da aggiungere altro?

Contro:
E' definitivamente scomparsa la vena ironica (a favore di una graditissima serietà)
Non è che ci siano molte alternative in giro
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gosamone
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo gioco, ma per non avere problemi dovrete ripiegare su Windows XP
Reviewed in Italy on September 20, 2016
il prodotto è arrivato in condizioni perfette e in tempi rapidissimi e con un prezzo concorrenziale (aiutato anche dal fatto che non è più un gioco recentissimo).
Sul mio Core 2 Duo del 2010 e Windows 7 ho riscontrato qualche difficoltà a farlo partire (probabilmente dovute più a Windows 7 a 64 bit che al processore) e ho dovuto quindi ripiegare su un'installazione di Windows XP che lo ha fatto girare senza il minimo problema.

Parlando del gioco in sé, diciamo subito che questo è senza dubbio un titolo che non ha rivali nel suo genere, sicuramente il migliore nel settore della simulazione/gestionale.
Come avvenne per The Sims il gioco è accompagnato da una colonna sonora ricca ed estremamente rilassante, di piacevolissimo ascolto.
Per quanto riguarda la grafica, non posso negare che il gioco, date le mappe ampie e ricche di dettagli, fatichi un po' ad ingranare con schede grafiche non recenti, specialmente per quel che riguarda le fasi iniziali del gioco, in cui scorrendo sulla città col cursore vengono scoperte vaste aree della città che vengono repentinamente caricate in memoria. Abbassando di poco il dettaglio riuscirete comunque a trovare la combinazione ideale per la vostra macchina.
Che dire, siamo di fronte ad un titolo completo, che ha saputo trarre dalle precedenti edzioni quanto di più buono vi fosse e di fondere il tutto con una ritrovata eleganza che fa di questo insieme un prodotto d'eccellenza, affatto dedicato ad una nicchia ristretta di addicted, bensì aperto al pubblico di tutte le età.
Si rischia di passare ore insonni se non si guarda l'orologio quando si gioca!

Pro:
Livello del dettaglio grafico veramente alto, di raffinata realizzazione.
Elegante ed intuitivo.
La città non è più un mondo a parte ma il tassello di un progetto molto più ampio
E' Sim City... c'è da aggiungere altro?

Contro:
E' definitivamente scomparsa la vena ironica (a favore di una graditissima serietà)
Non è che ci siano molte alternative in giro
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Niggy001
1.0 out of 5 stars Leider ließ sich das Spiel nicht installieren
Reviewed in Germany on May 4, 2015
Platform For Display: PCEdition: DeluxeVerified Purchase
Der Preis war top, leider nur UK-Import. Mag auf einigen PC's problemlos laufen. Leider nicht auf meinem.
Zu allem Übel, ist die Rücksendung beim Paketdienst scheinbar verloren gegangen. Die Lieferung hingegen lief problemlos und schnell.
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