Sim City 4 EA Games Computer Game - Deluxe Edition Manual Support Features Review Guide

• Sculpt mountains, gouge valleys, and seed forests to lay the groundwork for your creation.
• Drop a disaster anywhere in your city--set buildings ablaze, pelt your metropolis with meteors, unleash a twister, or wreak havoc with a volcano.
• Populate your terrain with animals that graze and roam … and sometimes stampede into your city!

• Create, build and run the most realistic city you can imagine.
• Connect your metropolis with other cities you've created to form a massive region of SimCities, each sharing and competing for resources.
• Deploy police cruisers and fire trucks to the scene--you’re up close and part of the action as they deal with fires, striking mobs, crime, and more.

Play With Your Sims

• Place your Sims in your city--they'll give you valuable feedback.
• Follow your Sims to work and home.
• Experience life in the big city, from mellow traffic to commuter hell, noontime crowds to nighttime calm.

Want a successful city? That depends on you.

Guide your city into prosperity. Watch the development from duplexes to high rises, apartments to mansions.

Law and order will keep the crime rate down (as will good schools!), but if you don't tend to it, vandalism will run rampant in your city streets.

Be sure to demolish run-down buildings and let the old make way for the new.

Keeping your city thriving instead of struggling, prospering instead of propped up, is the key to your success as mayor.

Now it's personal!

Move your own personalized Sims into your city and they'll keep you abreast of what's going on around town.

Don't worry, they'll give you an earful about everything and anything happening to them.

Unleash havoc on your metropolis!

Drag a twister through your city and try and pick up the pieces afterwards, or give your city a trial by fire and see just how capable your emergency services are.

Cast lightning down from the sky and test your city to see how well it can stand the rigors of nature you wreak upon it.

Deploy emergency vehicles to battle blazes or they can get out of hand and destroy whole neighborhoods!

Look Closely...Your City Is Alive!

Your city is bustling with life! From pedestrians to automobiles, the signs of your population moving through your city are unmistakable.

Every sight is a clue to how your city is doing -- smokestacks warn of pollution, rundown houses show degradation of your neighborhoods, and more.

Learn to trust your eyes. When neighborhoods are in trouble, buildings are run down and show decay. Don't ignore these visual clues.

In SimCity 4, your cities will shift from day to night.

The sun will rise and fall, rushhour traffic will clog up streets and your streets will be lined with streetlights at night.

Your city is not alone!

As you build a city, the regions around you become important as you can set up deals to provide water, power and more. You can even work to build industrial parks and bedroom communities!

• 1 GHz or faster Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon processor
• 256 MB or more RAM
• 32 MB or greater supported Direct3D capable video card with DirectX 7.0 compatible driver