The SimCity Box | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $36.69
You Save: $3.30 (8%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2067
Format: Dvd-video
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
MPN: 19073
UPC: 014633190731
EAN: 0014633190731
ASIN: B0014468XE
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
Immerse yourself in this massive collection of SimCity games. SimCity Box is a bundle pack of five games: SimCity Societies and its expansion SimCity Societies Destinations, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour, and The Sims Carnival SnapCity. 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 sky is truly the limit!
Windows 98 / 2000 / XP
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Could not even install... July 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The installation went through after 30 mins or so but it failed to start the game. After installing the patch provided by EA (patch ver 5), the situation was even worse and I was asked me to un-install and re-install the whole game. My PC has met the hardware requirement and I still don't know the cause of the problem. After googling it I found many people have encountered the similar issue.
Disappointed in EA with this July 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was eagerly awaiting the Destinations expansion and this is how they do it!? I have Societies already, I have SimCity 4 and all expansions, no interest at all in SnapCity and WE got the Spore trial for free online. So I'm supposed to pay practically what it cost to buy the base game just to get an expansion!? My only other option is to digitally download the expansion from EA's store. Nope sorry, I'm not paying money to not have a disk of the game. This is very disappointing!
 A great game collection! July 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The SimCity Box features:
SimCity 4: The best game in the collection, SimCity 4 is the 4th in a line of city-building simulations (and a TRIAL of Spore Creature Creator) which has amused fans for about a decade (I think). You simply zone resedential, commercial, and industrial zones, Then connect them to bring power, e.t.c. but you also need to balance your budget, gain happiness, and improve your mayor rating!
SimCity 4: Rush Hour Expansion Pack: An expansion pack that adds new roads, highways, ferries, and such. It also adds U-Drive-It, where you can drive, fly, and boat across town! Not much else to say.
SimCity Societies: A different game than SC4, it isn't made by Maxis, but instead Tilted Mills ( The In-game description of the windmill is "Some say this mill is tilted.") Instead of all the stuff in SC4, in it you place buildings individually, don't worry about power lines, or water pipes. As a side effect of the missing features it can become bland and repetitive. It does however add Social Values, which buildings consume or produce.
SimCity Societies Destinations: The (as I write this) newest SimCity game. It allows you to attract tourists to visit your city, introduces new buildings and landmarks, and a couple of other things.
Spore Creature Creator Trial Edition: It is not SimCity but it is also very good. You can add Mouths, Sensory Organs, Limbs, Graspers, Feet, Weapons, and Details. You can then size an morph parts for (almost) Endless possibilities.
THIS IS A TRIAL! It only contains SOME pieces! The Spore Creature Creator is available for U.S. $10.00.
Snap City: I haven't actually downloaded this do to poor reviews, but I hear it is part of The Sims franchise (also by Maxis) that spoofs SimCity and it is also similiar to tetris. By, Beth Smiths Grandson CJ.
Major Technical Problems - official help can't be reached, due to more tech problems July 28, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
For Casual Gamers July 21, 2008
3 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
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