As your population grows it changes classifications from a village, town, city, and so forth. As your city grows you will need more and more of these.Īs your city becomes more desirable people will move to it. Of course you’ll also need power to the city, and have access to numerous power plants and power lines that must be connected to each structure. You can always demolish and replace structures. Wright will let you know when you need more of any one thing. This game requires a lot of management, but Dr. These only affect the area in which they’re placed oddly enough, and so you’re going to need a lot of them to ensure your citizens are safe. Then you have to manage crime and fire outbreaks by building police stations and fire stations. After this you need to build roads for travel, and can also opt for railroad tracks for trains. The first allows more people to live in your town, and the second/third choices give jobs to the citizens. You have three basic structures to build qualified as ‘zones.’ These are residential, commercial, and industrial. Once you make your selection you’re given an overhead view of the terrain and can get right to building. Unfortunately the game suffers from noticeable loading times while you cycle through each of these and therefore you’re going to want to write down your favorites on numbers. You can cycle through the different layouts, but good luck with checking all of them out considering you have nine hundred and ninety nine different ones! It’s astounding, but they only differ in layouts of water and land with alternate layouts for trees and other natural terrain. You’re immediately given a choice of terrain on which to build. These two bonus modes are fun (with heavy emphasis on the scenario mode being awesome) but most people are going to go straight for the ‘Start New City’ option. These scenarios are well designed and fun to play. The future events include a nuclear meltdown in Boston 2010, and coastal flooding in Rio De Janeiro in 2047. Then there’s a crime wave in Detroit during 1972 which I have no idea if it’s based on a real historical event. The most hilarious of the bunch is a monster attack in Tokyo from 1961 (obviously based on Godzilla). Next there’s the traffic issues of Bern Switzerland from 1965. There’s the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 which is my favorite of the bunch. This plays out several historical events (some fictional) and even two futuristic events. This is completed when you reach a population of thirty thousand citizens. There’s a practice mode that teaches you the ins and outs to get you started. When you begin you’re given a vast array of options. This is a great exclusive feature in my opinion. You’re not completely on your own however you’re given advice by a cartoony caricature of Will Wright (called Dr. You need to manage tax rates and deal with problems such as crime, pollution, traffic and more as they become real issues. You play the role of mayor over a town that you’re tasked with building. This last weekend I took it for a spin, and it hooked me in almost as thoroughly as it did in my youth. Years later this was one title I had to have in my collection if not just for nostalgia sake. I was absolutely hooked on the game, but alas I never saw it for sale. I snagged it for the weekend, and I barely left my room during this period. I had long forgotten about SimCity until my teenage years when I randomly spotted this title for rent at my local video store. This version was actually ported by Nintendo themselves, and they applied their usual polish to the release making it one of the most renowned editions of the game. When Nintendo launched their 16-bit Super Nintendo console a home port of SimCity rounded out their initial line-up. SimCity had an air of mystery about it, and it seemed to almost transcend mere video games. Unfortunately my family didn’t have a computer, and so I was left wanting. I never had a chance to play this title, but even as a child I knew what it was about and yearned to give it a spin. SimCity was one of the early hits on home computers.
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