Amazon Maximum Age: 240 months
Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633147407
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Packaged Height: 110 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 55 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2003-09-22
Studio: Electronic Arts
Feature:
- 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
Product Description:
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 missions
Customer Reviews:
 Crazy Complexity, 2008-08-02
I have to say, when i bought this game i was expected a so-so game i would get bored of after a month or so. But this game is so fun and addicting because of its sheer complexity
The Deluxe version is completely worth it, allowing you a grasp at your city's traffic network. At any building or home, you can see exactly how many people leave the home during the day, where they go to work, how they get to work, and how long it takes them. From this information you can figure out the best way to organize your cities and streets to minimize traffic congestion.
Also, region play is fun and interesting. Instead of individual cities you can play with like in the old sim city, you can customize a whole region (Which means many cities all connected)! You can create a city and add roads that go connect to the adjacent city and then go work on that city and see the effects the to cities have on each other.
Also with the Deluxe edition comes a U Drive It part of the game. You can actually drive your cars around the city in 3rd person and do missions and things to see how hard it is for the school bus to get all the kids just using small streets or how fast your taxi cab can drop someone off at the airport. U Drive It, to me at least, is a fun way to see your city and really spend some time with it. Rather that just seeing it as something your building and imagine it as something you could live in.
This is a very fun game and there are some great Modds and downloadable building models out there from simtropolis website. You can download buildings not in the game to customize your city even more. These things can enhance your gameplay.
All in all, a great game. If you don't like having to worry about what types of roads and mass transport is best to move your sims to their jobs you won't like this game. If you don't like to think about the best way to zone residential, commercial, and industrial areas in the way that will make the grow the best. If you don't like having to worry about "rings of influence" around your public buildings such as Hospitals, Schools, and Police, you won't like this game. For those of you who do like this stuff, buy this game and view its complexity yourself, you won't be disappointed.
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