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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Get Ready for an All Nighter!

Written by NR from Kingston

Nov 23, 2005

This is such a good game, you'll dream of strategies and different ways to build your cities in your head at night and during the day! The only downside... as the game gets going (bigger and better), the game can be quite demanding for graphics. Make sure your computer is pretty heavily fortified with a lot of memory and at least 128MB of Vram before even thinking about buying this game! Other than that, this is a great game and recommend to all who love strategy games like Age of Empires, or even Warcraft. I give it four and a half stars.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

one problem

Written by NS from PITTSBURGH

Dec 14, 2005

The game is great. The only problem is that I always have to have the CD in the CD-drive to play. Is this a problem with anyone else? It uses up more power in a shorter amount of time and I am not sure whether or not to buy Rush Hour because I am worried that I won't be able to play both at the same time. Any help?

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Great Game

Written by CR from Easton

Jan 18, 2006

I think this game is awsome it is hard to start and takes a long time to get the city going but once you do it is a lot of fun and the U-drive it missions are good and it has much better music than the older ones but all and all it is an awsome game

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Continue the saga

Written by NL from Kingsford

Jan 19, 2006

I've been a Sim City Junkie for years, and was just as impressed with this release as the ones before it. They really create a city building challenge that takes a bit of skill. Overall, it's great, but not complete without the Rush Hour Expantion Pack

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Awesome game, needs a little work though

Written by JR from Chicago

Feb 9, 2006

I love SimCity. I've been an addict of the game since the first version on my 286 pc in the 90s. I was excited to find this game available for the mac, and love playing it. It did, however, take some work to make it playable. First off, to use the game on a newer powerbook, you have to download a patch from www.aspyr.com to make it compatible with the new graphics cards in the powerbooks. Not a huge issue, but also not addressed anywhere without googling the problem. Additionally, it seems absurd to me that there is no option to play the game solely off the hard drive. Carrying the cd around if i want to play somewhere other than home is a nuissance and seems like a major flaw. The game itself is great, hence the 4 stars, but it needs to be able to be played without the cd in the drive.

86 of 143 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Grat Game

Written by CT from Appleton

Feb 15, 2006

This game is great the graphics are much better thrn the others also.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

One problem solved.

Written by AM from New York

May 16, 2006

I have both 1 GHz and 1.67 GHz 17-inch PowerBooks and these games are a complete joy to play. I have been reading about how the game can slow down when your city gets larger. This is true for me as well. I hope they can fix this little flaw in the near future. Also, you CAN play this game without the CD being in the drive. Load the game as you normally would and when the region screen shows, eject the disc and you're off to the races. It works for both SimCity 4 and Rush Hour. Somehow, the computer stores the information on the HD, allowing one to play for as long as you keep the game going (Not quiting the game). You can even pause the game and put the computer to sleep and the game will start back up when you wake the computer. I have played the game like this for over a year and have not had a problem in this respect. So, go out and buy this game. It is well worth it.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

I'd love to say it's great but...

Written by DG from Belfast

Jun 20, 2006

..having owned the game for 2 days I've failed to get it running. It loads to the 'map' section and then crashes before I can play a game.

I've tried everything imaginable to remedy the problem. Aspyr support have not helped me an iota either.

My computer is a very capable 1.67ghz powerbook and should run this with ease but alas nothing.

A spectacular waste of money

73 of 156 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Great Game

Written by JF from Roxbury

Jun 24, 2006

I taught this game as part of an Advanced Technology class (high school), 20 individual Mayors dealing with city issues is too much fun. Other components taught with this game were Google Earth (finally for MAC) structure of city government and mapping skills, a mini-lesson on the highway system. Also field trips when construction is occurring are a must and learning to listen to city noises.

Great game.

Plan to add podcasting and blogging next school year, daily SimCity4 News Reports.

80 of 134 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

It's ok

Written by WB from LADUE

Nov 22, 2006

I though it was a great game till it started not to work on my computer

54 of 132 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Doesn't work on macbook

Written by AP from New York

Jan 17, 2007

Would be a cool game if it didn't run so horribly on a macbook...

67 of 135 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

One of the great games for grown ups

Written by RO from LONDON

Jan 17, 2007

This game is fantastic. I have played it since SimCity 2000. I recently bought an MacBook Pro and had a great time playing the game till I tried to save and problems started; it would not save and I had to force quit it. So until an updated version is released I have to go back to my 12" PowerBook!

294 of 466 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

An Excellent Game, But Needs Good Memory

Written by DC

Feb 18, 2007

Sim city is really a great, addicting game. I run it at home on my PC, works very nice there. Then I sync the cities to my Mac Book, It's really nice to have that kind of flexibility. But I'd say if you really want to play this game, your going to need the 2GB of RAM. This game really eats it up.

On the side, there are billions of plug-ins and add-ons for this game, and it's really only half the fun without them.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Tons of fun and sleepless nights may follow!!

Written by TK from Calgary

Mar 9, 2007

I have always loved SimCity, I can even remember when it first came out for PC back in the 90's and I spent countless hours building and tweaking my city, and I could never seem get enough of this game. SimCity 4 for mac is exactly the same as my pc game, which is very helpful, because I don't have to learn to play it. The difference now is when I play its faster at rendering on my imac (I use a 20'' imac, with 2 GB memory).

It is such a neat game, Sims go to work and say 'ho hum' and talk sim language and you can get into the details as much or as little as you want. I like to start building from scratch and I like to send my Sims on assignment. If you like any of the Sims games, you will really like SimCity 4, the possibilites and scenarios are endless in this game.

Bottom line - it is awesomely fun and addictive. Highly recommend it and worth the price.

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Awesome!!!

Written by GT from Vienna

Jun 14, 2007

This is an amazing game, with amazing graphics (compared to Sim City 3000.).It's very addictive, considering the fact that I've played it for about 6 months and I still love it.If you like being in charge, building cities, and a nice strategy game, Sim City for is for you!

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Sim City 4 is great, but Aspyrs support is horrible

Written by PZ from Playa Del Rey

Jun 21, 2007

I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro (2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, etc.) along with it I purchased Sim City 4. I spoke to the genius bar and multiple reps assured me that even though this game lacks the Universal logo the shear power of this machine will make no difference in game play itself.

After spending countless hours trying to find the solution, and receiving nothing but "we think there is a problem with our games and the new video card on macbook pros" from Aspyr, I'm heading back to Windows where the game actually runs normally.

I get nothing but horrible performance, every object in the game that is supposed to be animated "blinks", of course now I can't return the game because the box has been opened. Good news is that my macbook pro was not purchased over 2 weeks ago - so I might be heading to return this "it just works" machine.

The game itself is amazing, you will find yourself controlling absolutely anything that has to do with a life in the city from the managerial point of view (of course there is room for improvement, but you take what you can get). Big improvement from the previous game - regions... try this game if you have a PPC or a Windows machine. Aspyr needs to get their act together on supporting this as well as other titles that just don't work on the new macbook pros.

56 of 86 people found this useful

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

worst

Written by GC from Oklahoma City

Jul 19, 2007

it is bad and that is all i can say about this HORRID game

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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition by Aspyr

Does not run

Written by JS from hauppauge

Aug 24, 2007

I have a 6 month old Macbook 1.8Ghz with 1 Gig of ram. The game simply doesnt run and is impossible to play. Once you have more then one building up the game slows down to a snails pace. 1 year in the game at full speed mode takes about 10 minutes in real time. Zooming in or out is tedious and annoying as it takes so long for the graphics to render. It is simply unplayable. Aspyr does not even address this issue on their website. How Aspyr can put this game on the shelves for years without fixing it is unbelievable. How apple, can sell this game in their store at a price of $60 is even more of an outrage.

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