What is Sim City like?

[rnmcd]

Is this a game of skill or is it luck?

I'm trying to find an interesting and challenging PC game for my dad (he is a retired land developer).

Any other suggetions?

Thanks.

 

[Chaotic42]

He'd probably like it. Most people do.

It's not really luck or skill. It's hard to not do well on the easy setting. More like a "watch what happens" kind of game, and you get to set the parameters. Fun, but gets old very, very quickly.

 

[pac1085]

I havent played it in like 5 years, but its a prety fun game. I was never that great at it ( my cities never got very big ) but it was still fun.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

its a fun game, and while there are completey random events that you can't control, you do learn how to build successful cities. Given that I would say that skill plays more of a role than luck.

 

[Michael1897]

my cities never got big either..
good game but does get boring

 

[pyonir]

Does he like golf? how about the new simgolf game? i've heard some good things about it.

 

[PsychoAndy]

its skill. much of it is dependent on being able to forsee issues toward the future.

you can get a good copy of sc3k for......less than $10. I paid $7.99 @ BB on sale once about a year ago.

sc2k was pretty cool, but i like 3k better cause of the micromanagement

 

[KEV1N]

Oooh, I almost bought Sim Golf yesterday because I was soooo bored. Warcraft 3 was out of the question because it was 60 friggin bones. I mean, whyyyyyyy.

 

[Czar]

let him try Rollercoster Tycoon, great game.

 

[CedarTeeth135]

Ok, its this great game were you build up a huge metropolis and then....destroy it by sicking monsters on it while madly crackling at the sight of the chaos and destruction you are causing.

 

[yakko]

Sim City 3000 Unlimited is fun. I still play it sometimes.

 

[RossMAN]

I think he'd enjoy it unless he's into more roleplaying or action/arcade games.

If you have a CostCo near you, they have a great Sim Pack with 3 Sim games including Sim City for a great price think it was around $30 - $40?

 

[rnmcd]

Are there instructions or a manual that comes with Sim City 3k?

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
Are there instructions or a manual that comes with Sim City 3k?

Yes there is. It even has a tutorial city to play with.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
Are there instructions or a manual that comes with Sim City 3k?

There are tons of websites that you can check out too.

 

[amdskip]

All sims are pretty uber cool

 

[Omegachi]

i had sc3k last month, played it and got bored with it. try zoo tycoon or something, or those sim life games, sims house party is pretty good.

 

[TNTrulez]

Originally posted by: pyonir
Does he like golf? how about the new simgolf game? i've heard some good things about it.

SimGolf will make him an addict to computer very quickly.

 

[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: yakko

Originally posted by: rnmcd
Are there instructions or a manual that comes with Sim City 3k?

Yes there is. It even has a tutorial city to play with.

Are the instructions on the cd or in the box...I am bidding on a CD for SimCity3k but it is only the cd (box not included).

 

[ohtwell]

I really like that game!

I'm not very good at it though.

I also really like The Sims and Roller Coaster Tycoon.





: ) Amanda

 

[StattlichPassat]

I haven't played it since the Classic edition was out in the 3.1/95 days. That game rocks though- pretty addictive. I always had awesome metropolises, but screw the rail systems! I shouldn't have point deductions for that when there are six-lane freeways all over the place! :|

(still bitter from never 'beaten' it)

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: rnmcd

Originally posted by: yakko

Originally posted by: rnmcd
Are there instructions or a manual that comes with Sim City 3k?

Yes there is. It even has a tutorial city to play with.

Are the instructions on the cd or in the box...I am bidding on a CD for SimCity3k but it is only the cd (box not included).

My instructions were in the box in a pretty good size booklet.

 

[GundamW]

I like SimCity Classic, SimCity 2K, and RollerCoaster Tycoon. They are simple enough for anyone to play and they are not CPU/graphic intense.
Never played SimCity3K. Played The Sims and found it boring.

 

[Rallispec]

anyone here remember the original sim city?

straight up overhead view.. it was pretty cool, in that sucky kind of way.

 

[ElFenix]

simcity is "hella" old... 1990 or so. was really fun (i had it on super nintendo, didn't have PC back then, had some macs instead). never got to half a million in population though... always got stagnant around 350,000. or so. what was dumb was that the super nintendo couldn't calculate the power grid fast enough so your city had a huge blackout when you loaded the game and 25000 people would move out.