SimCity 2000 is the successor to the city simulation game Sim City. You are once again the mayor, but this time you can fully customize the terrain before building your city. The graphics are isometric, whereas the original had graphics displayed in a top-down fashion.

This title adds numerous features over the original such as the ability of building "light" zones, subways, hospitals, colleges, zoos, and arcos which are actually cities in cities. You can now give names to places, and your city is surrounded by neighboring towns with which you can make trade. Finally, instead of the poll in the first game you now have the option of reading several newspapers to get an idea of your progress.

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Alternate Titles

"模拟城市2000" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
"סים סיטי 2000" -- Hebrew spelling
"SimCity 2000: The Ultimate City Simulator" -- Tag-lined title
"SimCity 2000: Symulator Buddwy I Rozwoju Miasta" -- Polish tag-lined title
"SimCity 2000: La Super-Simulation D'Urbanisme" -- French tag-lined title
"SimCity 2000: Der ultimative Städte-Simulator" -- German tag-lined title
"Sim City 2000" -- Alternate spelling
"SC2K" -- Formal abbreviation
"SC2000" -- Informal abbreviation
"シムシティー2000" -- Japanese spelling

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Merchant	Title	Price
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	SimCity 2000™ Special Edition	$5.99
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User Reviews

Reticulating Splines	Feem (45)
Great addictive gamplay but the original did it better for me	Julian McKenzie (162)
A worthy sequel which not only improves on the original but also adds some exciting new features	IJan (1919)
Never cared much for this one.	Tomer Gabel (4418)
Eh...I guess it's possible to like it.	Yeah Right (57)
Another Maxis classic	MiG Attack (9)	unrated

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The Press Says

Secret Service / New S Service	Jul, 1994	100 out of 100	100
Entertainment Weekly	Jan 13, 1995	A	100
PC Gamer	May, 1994	95 out of 100	95
MikroBitti	Mar, 1994	91 out of 100	91
PC Player (Germany)	Feb, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Feb, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Svenska Hemdatornytt	Mar, 1994		83
Edge	Mar 03, 1994	8 out of 10	80
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	7.2 out of 10	72

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Trivia

Perspective

SimCity 2000 is viewed from a dimetric rather than isometric perspective. This means that two sides of an object are at the same angle, while the other is not.

Trees

Few gamers must have noticed that trees actually multiply in this game. Leave the game running for a few days at top speed with all automatic functions, a surplus budget and disabled disasters and you'll see the results. This leaves the game in a useless state as environmental activists complain each time you to try to build something on a square.

Awards

Computer Gaming World
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) – #12 Hardest Computer Game
PC Gamer
- April 2000 - #20 in the "Readers All-Time Top 50 Games" poll
- April 2005 - #29 in the "50 Best Games of All Time" list

Information also contributed by PCGamer77 and Zack Green

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