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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy Used: $3.98
You Save: $6.01 (60%)
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Rating:  131 reviews
Sales Rank: 2723
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 95
Genre: Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: 14463
Model: 15009
UPC: 014633144635
EAN: 0014633144635
Release Date: May 16, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Features two completely new building sets - Asian and European | | • | Add color to your city by incorporating quaint European-style cottages or high-tech glass skyscrapers from Hong Kong | | • | Four new disasters await you -- whirlpools, acid rain, plagues of locusts and space debris | | • | Create your own scenarios with the new Scenario Editor | | • | Customize your terrain and add seasonal city events |
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Product Description
Sim City 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of Sim City 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrill of the classic Sim City 3000 are here again!
Amazon.com Review
SimCity 3000 is back, and it's bigger than ever! Maxis pulled out all the stops for this new version of the bestselling game, adding enough new customized graphics to re-create cities from around the world. The new European and Asian building sets serve up hundreds of new buildings that match the architecture of these diverse environments. From the Great Wall to the Berlin Wall, it's in there. Of course, you can still mix and match--freedom to run a city as you choose has always been the name of this game. No addition to the SimCity family would be complete without some new methods for destroying your creations, and SimCity 3000 Unlimited has four more devastating disasters than the old version. You can re-create the movie Armageddon by unleashing large chunks of flaming space debris, smite your populace with a buzzing swarm of locusts, destroy seaports and coastal developments with a whirlpool, or uncork some toxic clouds. The Building Architect, formerly available as a free download, is now packed on the CD-ROM. This 3-D architectural program lets users create the buildings of their dreams, from dilapidated outhouses to towering skyscrapers to works of modern art that are intended for pure decoration. Don't worry if you don't feel like using this powerful tool to create things yourself--the game comes with dozens of new ways to make your cities unique, and you can always head to the SimCity Exchange to download imaginative add-ons created by other users. The infinite expandability and infinite replayability of this game should keep would-be mayors completely occupied until they move to the suburbs of The Sims.
Amazon.com Product Description
Create and control your urban empire with more power than ever. Expand your SimCities with new customizable terrain and hundreds of new buildings, including two new building sets from Asia and Europe. Inflict four new disasters (plague of locusts, toxic cloud, space junk, and a whirlpool) on your citizens. Take on 13 challenging scenarios, from reuniting East and West Berlin to rebuilding in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster. Or, create your own scenarios with the SimCity Scenario Creator. All the great features of SimCity 3000, plus these new options, make this a SimCity without limits.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 126 more reviews...
Not bad at all. June 17, 2008
Clinton Labombard (San Antonio, TX United States)
I had a lot of fun with this game. It can be quite challenging to a beginner, but once you've mastered the technique it gets quite boring; however, you'll easily spend several hundred hours tinkering with this one. There are plenty of mods available online, for better or worse, so that extends the replayability a touch. Overall, one of the greatest games you'll find of this genre.
 too hard June 1, 2007
Jo Marie Lammy (the place with the thing)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
it would be extremly fun if i could get my city running but i go into debt and have to get a loan i cant pay off and then i keep getting loans and i still go into negatives before i can even pay it off.ive gone trough a good 10 citys and i still havnt gotten through a year with one before i have to give up.
 Sim City 3000 January 16, 2007
David Berry (Somerville, MA United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
SORRY....... Sim City 2000 is more user/player friendly. Graphics
are good to ok. SIMCITY 4k Deluxe blows away SC3K. To be honest....
I STILL PLAY SIM CITY 2K BECAUSE IT'S PLAYER FRIENDLY.
 Well-balanced, works on a modest computer September 4, 2006
Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a good, well-balanced game. Start building your city little by little. Build a power plant, small-density residential, commercial and industrial zone, water pipes, that's it. Use the cheapest streets. Every other square in a residential and commercial are should have a bus stop. Of course, bus stops cost money, but it will save you from traffic congestions, and you won't need to invest in expensive roads and motorways. Click on the bus stops and watch the number of passengers, if it's low, demolish it.
Watch your cash flow and the other maps gradually. As soon as you have small but solid cash flow, expand your city gradually. Only add money-eating facilities like fire station, police, education and health care when there is absolute need in it. Expand extensively: cover large areas with low-quality low-density zones.
When you have enough money, move to high-tech industry which have no pollution. To do that, you need highly-educated workforce. Build schools, colleges, museums, and libraries. But watch carefully the number of attendees: only build a schools when the old are overwhelmed. So with health care.
Sooner or later you will be offered federal objects like a mega-market, military base or waste disposal. Accept them all, it will bring you mega-cash-flow that will allow you to significantly improve your city facilities.
Also don't forget to make money by selling power to the neighbors: make connections to them with roads and power lines.
This game is very well-balanced, unlike SimCity 4 Rush Hour. I highly recommend SimCity 3000, be it Unlimited or other edition.
My Bank Account Is NOT Unlimited. August 29, 2006
Kevin R. Haughn (Azusa, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Obviously SimCity 3000 is a superb game. Nothing really comes close to it (except SimCity 4, which beats it). The original SimCity 3000 is good enough to stand on its own.
SimCity 3000 Unlimited doesn't really offer features that attract most gamers, however. While the "unlimited" aspect of creating your own scenarios seems nice, don't think that you can just run the application and simply make a scenario. You gotta read the instruction manual for sure! (All of it.)
Sure, more disasters can be nice, but I am the kind of player who turns them off. That is, I like to actually build cities, not tear them down. If I am unsatisfied, I delete them and start over. But hey, if you like disasters, you got four (4) more with the Unlimited version.
Also, don't think the gameplay is changing one bit - it isn't. But if you think that new Asian and European artwork is cool enough to justify a "brand new" game separate from the original, well, you will need more money, my friend. I personally do not see a justification for adding some content and adding the word "Unlimited" to the title, then selling it for top dollar. This might have been the rare time where I would actually approve of an expension pack version. (Though I would have passed on it with today's knowledge.)
And if you were expecting new buildings, you get one: it's a Halloween haunted house. Tell me, where are you going to put that monstrosity? It looks more like an under-developed zone in your city, and the sound effects are worthless for city-building purposes.
To conclude, I recommend that you do not purchase SimCity 3000 Unlimited if you already own the original SimCity 3000. Since money in your pocket is limited, stick with the original classic - a title worth every penny. If you don't own the original, however, the Unlimited version is a fine substitution.
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