An important part of gaming is certainly the graphics and aesthetics, and Simcity 4 does not disappoint.
They allow the player to drive cars, fly planes, ride boats, control trains, or even drive a tank whilst destroying buildings with missiles. While these features are not necessary, they add a certain charm to the game. Another selling point of the game is the implementation of features from The Sims. Alternatively, the player has the possibility to import maps off of Simtropolis, and though difficult to install, adds an extra element to the game – I’m currently working on a city in a region shaped as the UK, with the landscape shaped from a high detailed height map. This could involve creating mountains, valleys, rivers, oceans or really any land form that the player could dream of. Each individual cell, either 256x256, 128x128 or 64圆4 tiles, can be landscaped by the player before creating their city. It allows players to create a huge metropolis, which would not have been possible in a single city, with a total plot size that would be impossible otherwise to run on a computer today, let alone back in 2003. Compared to Simcity 5, this set up is perfect. This is a grid of differently sized square plots, all connected together. One of Simcity 4’s main selling points, is the region view. It sets the atmosphere of the game perfectly, and captures the player’s and the sim’s emotions as you expand your corrupt city into a gleaming paradise. My favorite track in the game, known as ‘Zone System’ is an example of the perfection of ambient, gritty, depressing, but most of all, interesting, city-sounding music. The ambient music in the regional view, combined with the gritty, hard jazz in the mayor view, combine to create an incredible atmosphere, incomparable to previous entries in the series, despite the impressive jazz tracks in Simcity 3000.
Simcity 4 does impress it impresses a lot. However, there is a certain satisfaction as your first high-rises begin to develop! In my opinion, an important factor in gaming, is the music, as it creates most of the atmosphere. With so many buildings to choose from, you may expect a steep difficulty curve, which indeed is apparent as you play the game. The game is orientated around grittier city building, or large gleaming metropolises, which, to a long term player, is a great change from the previous installments - where the design choices and city genres seemed somewhat limited.
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Clearly aimed at experienced, PC gaming, simulator loving gamers, Simcity can satisfy all of the requirements that are needed to make a great city simulator, and does so much more to interest the player. Compared to Simcity 3000, this game is a huge step up. My first experience of Simcity came from Simcity Ds when I was about 8 years old, and have been playing ever since. I have grown up all my life with Simcity, and by far, this is the best game in the series. My first Simcity 4 is an outstanding game.
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