It has all the features, flexibility, art, animation, and power you need to create an environment of your dreams. Choose from a selection of bonus cities and scenarios to rule or ruin as you please. Build schools, libraries, hospitals, zoos, prisons, power plants, and much more... Lay down roads, railways, and highways. Explore the underground layer and build subways and utilities without compromising your aesthetics. Customize different buildings or design your own graphics sets from scratch. This is the ultimate classic Maxis city-building and management simulation. If this game were any more realistic, it'd be illegal to turn it off!
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Plot-driven, cool, classical in form and warm.
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- Windows Mobile, PC-9800 Series, PlayStation 3, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Legacy Computer, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, Super Famicom
- Developer
- Maxis
- Publisher
- Zoo Digital, DSI Games, Electronic Arts, Maxis, Mindscape, Fujitsu, Imagineer, Artdink, Sega, Tec Toy Indústria de Brinquedos, Black Pearl Software, THQ, ZIOSoft
- Released
- December 1, 1993
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Time to beat
- 1 h rushed · 4 h main story · 10 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.5/10 from 212 ratings.
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