The SimCity Box
- Five amazing games, countless incredible cities to build
- SimCity Societies and one Expansion
- SimCity 4 and one Expansion
- Snap City
- Bonus! Spore Creature Creator, Trial Version
Product Description
Immerse yourself in creativity with this massive collection of SimCity games. Choose each individual structure from chicken coops to beauty salons to billboards as you create a truly unique city with SimCity Societies. Then add a thriving tourist industry with the SimCity Societies Destinations expansion pack. Strategically balance demand, construction, and your budget with SimCity 4 Deluxe (SimCity 4 and Rush Hour) to shape the development of your metropolis, small town, or industrial city. Then try your hand at SnapCity where you can play through the goals of 25 cities in Story Mode or indulge your city-building creativity in open-ended Sandbox mode. With so many ways to build the cities of your dreams, the s… More >>
I read the reviews here, and must accept the label of being a casual gamer. For no other reason than I have liked playing this game, and want to be labelled correctly.
Great rumination question: if you’re NOT a casual gamer, then what are you?
A permanent gamer?
A working gamer?
A serious gamer?
A formal gamer?
A regular gamer?
I thought, unless you’re doing it for money, all gamers were casual by definition.
Well, it does not matter. I liked this game. I liked it because it was fun to play and I liked the way the characters talked and expressed themselves in writing. I liked the graphics. I liked the music.
I especially liked all the BP branding and product placements in the game. It made me feel much better about what BP is charging me for gasoline now; I’m glad some of my money went to Tilted Mill Entertainment this way.
Now THAT’s serious gaming.
Rating: 4 / 5
Not too many surprises with the gameplay. If you have ever played it before it is very similar – just expanded.
Rating: 3 / 5
I got this disc from another retailer.
The first two discs say, “Includes SimCity 4 and SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack”, but only the first one ever downloads. I even searched all the files on the disk with “My Computer” on Vista, and the words “rush hour” are not to be found.
Also, the snapcity was having problems loading at all, but it’s loading now.
Getting help from the official website if hard, too. There is a forum for “technical questions”, but, after I spent quite a while navigating – I got stuck on a page for free cheat codes for any of the games, but you need an access code which can not be found in the box edition of any of these games. Also, the same page for cheat codes came up automatically when I just installed snapcity, and it input the registration code I put in when I installed it, which worked, and it says “The specified registration/access code is not for the specified game.”
Finally, when I closed down the cheat code page and returned to the forum, I found that it had accepted my registration, but the forum was only in “read only” mode, and the profiles for the administrator, or anybody else, does not have a private message function.
It’s kind of fun, for a while. But, I would not recommend it to anyone who gets even slightly frustrated by not getting what you thought you paid for.
Rating: 1 / 5
Contrary to Amazon’s text for this item, it does NOT include the Spore Creature Creator. Instead, it includes only the trial version, which you could download for free anyway. The supposed inclusion of the $10 creature creator was a major factor in my purchase decision!
Rating: 1 / 5
I have enjoyed this package from day one and can barely stop playing it! It has so many different things to do, it’s a load of fun. Especially if you can get everyone in the family hooked on playing it as well! I am very pleased with my products from Amazon.com. Thanks!
Rating: 5 / 5