best sim city type game

GJ02 · 3 Jun 2010 at 13:57

im getting bored of bf2 and trackmania, i can always go back to play them.
im looking for a sim city type game, were i can control city and infrastructure etc etc, whats the best on offer in the shops ?
has to run on win7 too

Dave**** · 3 Jun 2010 at 15:37

Sim City?

Treebiter · 3 Jun 2010 at 15:50

Sim City 4 still I'm afraid.

We're long overdue a replacement.

D-Ranged · 3 Jun 2010 at 15:50

Treebiter said:
Sim City 4 still I'm afraid.

We're long overdue a replacement.

Yep. I tried Societies a while back and it was a load of rubbish.

GJ02 · 3 Jun 2010 at 15:56

simcity 4, ive read it wont work on 7 64bit
anyone know otherwise ?

snowdog · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:01

userunknown said:
simcity 4, ive read it wont work on 7 64bit

Set affinity to 1 core or use cpucount=1 or so in the shortcut, and use older nv drivers or software mode and it works fine and it's solid.

anyone know otherwise ?

Sim city 4 + rush hour + NAM is best imo.

I also still like the classics: Pharaoh, Caesar 3, etc...

MouthBoy · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:09

I havent played in a while but it works fine on my Win7 64bit. I have SC4 + Rush Hour + NAM.

Doonhamer · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:13

NAM?

Street · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:18

userunknown said:
simcity 4, ive read it wont work on 7 64bit
anyone know otherwise ?

Works fine on my laptop.. Tried it the other day because I was bored in work! I'm on a C2D with W7 64bit. It was a bit buggy if I alt-tabbed but if I didn't do that it was fine.

neoboy · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:19

Doonhamer said:
NAM?

Would you like me to google that for you sir?

bigsharn · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:26

Sim City... and I remember Constructor for the PS was a good game as well (back when I still got pocket money and cheap 2nd-rate games was all I could afford), I think you can get it free for the PC now

MouthBoy · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:27

Sorry, NAM is a Network Addon Mod that changes a few things in the game that were unbalanced. Just google SimCity NAM and you will find a lot on it.

MouthBoy · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:28

bigsharn said:
Sim City... and I remember Constructor for the PS was a good game as well (back when I still got pocket money and cheap 2nd-rate games was all I could afford), I think you can get it free for the PC now

That game was actually really hard...or was I just that young and dumb?

Glaucus · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:35

smeaney said:
That game was actually really hard...or was I just that young and dumb?

I found constructor really hard as well.

Anyone played cities XL? any good or avoid?

MouthBoy · 3 Jun 2010 at 16:43

AcidHell2 said:
I found constructor really hard as well.

Anyone played cities XL? any good or avoid?

I was put off buying Cities XL due to the cheesy graphics. To me a simulator has graphics for purpose, not for show...does that make sense?

jahujames · 3 Jun 2010 at 17:15

I played Cities XL and Sim City Societies... and most people will probably agree me, although they aim for something different, if you've ever played Sim City 1 > 4 you're going to just want to keep playing them... They're really not that good, if you ask me. Stick with Sim City 4! Or 3000!

scrlk · 3 Jun 2010 at 18:43

SC4 is still the best out there imo.

mame · 3 Jun 2010 at 19:08

Tropico 3 looks ok on steam. It was on sale for £5 a couple of weeks ago. I didn't buy it though, not really my thing.

DBT85 · 4 Jun 2010 at 12:53

snowdog said:
I also still like the classics: Pharaoh, Caesar 3, etc...

Picked up Pharaoh and Cleopatra for a fiver in PC World the other day, started playing last night. I realised farily early on that I barely scratched the surface when i played it when originally released.

Still great fun!

Sp00n · 4 Jun 2010 at 12:56

The Anno series stacks up pretty well I think