SimCity?

[Swein Forkbeard]

I have SimCity 1 but it won't work on my PC. Which game should I get? I unfortunately don't think SimCity 2000 will work well on my PC.

 

[GenMarshall]

SimCity 2000 for Dos (if you can find the Special Edition CD) is perfict for DOSBox.

SimCity 3000 is decent and has more infrastructure added to it (Garbage and simplified Electrical and Water system)

SimCity 4 Is a bit of a memory hog for older systems

 

[Synobun]

SimCity 2000 also works on Windows 98 , as it did for me.

SimCity 3000 is a moderately adequate game, but not top notch.

Simcity 4 is excellent, but quite demanding.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I have SimCity 2000 Special Edition and it works on my Windows XP computer.

I have SimCity 3000 UK Edition. It's similar to 2000 with some updated features.

I tried playing SimCity 4 Rush Hour today. Smaller cities run fine, but once they start to grow, my computer struggles (my computer is over 5 years old).

2000 will probably be hard to get. 3000 is a budget release. I'm not sure about 4m but that might be budget now.

 

[Chris85]

Go for either SC 2000 or 3000 they're both great games. SC4 uses a lot of memory and requires too much micromanagement for my taste, not to mention the occasional random CTDs. I haven't played Societies, it just doesn't interest me.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

SC2K is by far the best

 

[Leonel]

I'd say SimCity 4. Despite it's somewhat steep learning curve, you have the potential to make a really cool and realistic city from various addon's. Plus you can import gray scale height maps to make entire regions so you could have a city that spans several city instances.

 

[Lachlan]

I prefer for now Sim City Societies and with patch number two with hiqs 50 Mb has corrected praticily all : no more bugs and a strategical mode which thinking to previous SC1

 

[sir_schwick]

The ability to have true commuter towns and inter-city travel in SC4 pushes it slightly over SC2K. Plus mass transit is now useful, and the U-Drive it missions take me back to glory days of SimCopter. I do agree that 4 is a resource hog though.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

I'm vacationing in Tennessee right now and we went to a store to buy extra supplies. In the games section I saw SimCity 4, but I bought StarCraft (Battlechest Edition) instead.

 

[Quintillus]

I voted Sim City 3000; it's a lot more detailed than Sim City 1 in what you can do and should run well on any modern machine (it works rather slowly on my 450 MHz Pentium II Win98, and perfectly fine on my 2.66 GHz Pentium 4). Sim City 4 does appear to allow slightly larger cities (regions?), but you can't easily fill up a huge Sim City 3000 map in 100 years anyways.

After 3000 I haven't seen enough of a difference to justify getting another version. Seems like a lot of games are that way now, though.

SimCopter is a great game, unfortunately very unstable. I can't get it to run for more than a few minutes on Vista, and it caused Blue Screens of Death at an annoyingly high rate on Windows 95 and 98. At least I was able to salvage the music files, which I still play from time to time.

 

[Luckymoose]

3000 is the best one to date. 4 is annoying.

 

[azzaman333]

SimCity 2k is my favourite.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

4>2000>3000>societies

 

[GenMarshall]

4>2000>3000>societies

You forgot the Classic man .

 

[Luckymoose]

4 is the obvious failure of the SimCity genre.

 

[Leonel]

4 is the obvious failure of the SimCity genre.

Care to explain?

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

You forgot the Classic man .

4>2000>Sim City>3000>Societies.

 

[sir_schwick]

The Simcity 4 Deluxe edition I think had all the critical elements:

1) Abillity to grow your city with real opportunity cost choices(especially considering the more formally set income groups) and strategies.

2) Transportation system that was intuitive.

3) Real relationships with neighbors.

4) Fun and not to difficult to place down your city.

5) U-Drive-It allowed every true mayor to survey their kingdom from the peasants view. It was like SimCopter Lite and really illuminates what bad congestion is like.

6) It was finally not impossible to get/grow the military base(always my fathers complaint with SC2K).

I belive the reason that SC3K is so hated was because it made the game more complicated and finicky, but wasn't real fun or pretty.

 

[Leonel]

5) U-Drive-It allowed every true mayor to survey their kingdom from the peasants view. It was like SimCopter Lite and really illuminates what bad congestion is like.

I hope SimCity 5 (SCS is dead to me) has some sort of way to get a first person view of your city like how you can kind of do so in City Life.