The 12 Games of Christmas – Day 4 – SimCity 2000
“YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!”
I’ve played the entire SimCity franchise, starting with the original SimCity, up to SimCity 4. (I don’t really consider Societies a true successor; it was not developed by Maxis.) But SimCity 2000 has always stuck with me as being the best of the series. It certainly is the one I’ve spent the most time reticulating splines in.
SimCity is a city planning/building simulator. You are the mayor, and you start out with a big wad of cash. Your goal is to create and maintain a healthy, growing city. It is also immensely satisfying, after you create your sprawling urban utopia, to unleash a volley of aliens to destroy it.
When I initially wrote this review in July, the game was no longer available anywhere. And when I popped in my disc to play it, it wasn’t compatible with my fancy-pants new Windows 7 machine. And nothing I could do made it work. I was very sad.
BUT! Come October, I shed tears of joy. Why?