The SimCity Box | 
| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $15.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1086
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
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
The SimCity Box PC (includes SimCity Societies, SimCity Destinations, SimCity 4 Deluxe and Sims Carnival SnapCity)
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 16
 crashes too often October 22, 2009
Art Vanderlei (LA, CA USA)
It's a decent strategy game but it crashes much too often in my system (XP64), very stable otherwise and in other games.
 Better of the Same September 12, 2009
D. Lahrman (Indiana)
If you've always liked SimCity, then you'll continue to like it with The Box. Hope they come out with a new version someday but I can't imagine how they could build upon such a complete game. Any more immersive and I think it would be too much like work.
 Great Bang for you Buck July 17, 2009
D. J. Taylor (Johnston City, IL USA)
This is the one you've been waiting for. If you haven't already got SC4 or SCS, here's your chance to get both of them, plus the Destinations EP for SCS and Spore Creature Creator, all in one box for one low price. What's not to like? Personally, I wanted SC4 so I could use it to create some terrains for Sims 2, so I didn't think I'd ever even play the game, but now that I have, it's pretty good and a great way to waste some time. SCS is very pretty, the graphics are nice, and the pace is very laid back. I find it very relaxing to play. I'm not a typical 'gamer' though and have never liked games that you have to play to win. For me, it's all about the playing. Destinations didn't add that much to the game, IMO, and I would never have bought it if it hadn't come packaged together. But with the price of this game, there is no way to complain.
 Fun new version of SimCity July 14, 2009
BTrain (Pioneer Square)
I played SimCity years ago and jumped all over this one when I saw it with a lower price. It is a nice update to the game that doesn't get too sci-fi with it like some older versions of the game seemed to do. At the same time it seemed like the game just got too big and I've never played it through to where I was starting to do stuff where I was going onto other "squares" (in this version instead of managing a city that is limited to one "square" you control a region of a bunch of squares).
Great concept but still too buggy to play - skip it. April 4, 2009
J. L. DIBIASI (NYC)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
I loved the original Sim City and I thought Sim City 2000 was probably one of the best games for the PC ever... I also had Sim City 3000 which is where the buggy interface started detracting from the gameplay and I had Sim City 4 back when it originally came out and the game was basically unplayable. I had hoped after many years without thinking about it that they'd have 'fixed' the game but they haven't...
Sim City 4 Deluxe is too buggy to play... I had it on for just an hour or so and the game just closed, no warning, no opportunity to save... even during play setting up roads and water pipes aren't fun because things just don't work like they should- To get roads and highways to connect like you want is a real pain- this is a GAME it's supposed to be FUN- don't tell me these roads don't fit together- just MAKE THEM FIT... the same with rewards and special items like the Marina- it takes forever to find a suitable spot to place these things- once again- let me place them and let the game deal with whatever is has to to make them fit.
Worse then the play options was the setting up of the game... It takes 2 discs to install - the second disc however was bad/blank... my computers couldn't see ANY data on the disc and the install wouldn't complete- I had to borrow the 2nd disc from someone else to complete the install- if I didn't know someone with it I'd be out of luck.
Everything about this box is annoying like this... avoid it- this isn't the Sim City you remember. :(
Also laptop users- FYI- the outside of the box says that laptop video cards (even if they meet the 128 MB memory requirement) are NOT SUPPORTED- they may work, they may not and if they don't the publisher doesn't want to hear about it- so don't waste your money or time if you planned to use this on a laptop.
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