#SIMCITY 2000 MUSIC PC#

The word 'splines' comes out as 'shplinesh,' and 'Sim City' incidentally sounds like 'Shim Shitty.Each different playing board is littered with potential stumbling blocks such as sticks of dynamite, snow shovels and wrecking balls etc. What little speech there is sounds like it was spoken by a female Sean Connery.

#SIMCITY 2000 MUSIC PC#

The sound effects, a ring here, a police siren there, are directly lifted from the PC version, but so highly compressed that they sound muffled. Be nice to your neighbors, folks! Switch the music off. I played it loud in the office for exactly 10 seconds before the whole place erupted in complaints and attempts to toss my N64 out of the window. SimCity 2000 uses the same elevator music as the PC classic, with the worst synth instrumentation you could imagine. Sound: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new winner for worst music on the N64. The scrolling is horrendous, and the stills announcing events (such as the building of a landmark) are blurry and have no detail.

The disasters look exactly like in the PC version, with no attempt on parts of the developer to make use of the N64's hardware or improve on the old designs. Many of the colors and patterns constantly flicker and the sprite-based buildings and streets pixelate when zooming in. Graphics: It's hi-res, just like NFL Quarterback Club - actually, not like Quarterback Club at all. It's a decent solution, but can't compare to the original PC mouse control.

So to select any event or building, you simply push the stick into the appropriate direction. Imagineer tried to come up with a fitting solution to make the menus more intuitive for stick control by arranging them in a circular fashion. Although the N64's analog stick is able to simulate mouse control to a certain degree, it's far from ideal (especially when you want to create large zones). Control: Keep in mind that the original SimCity 2000 was designed to be played with a mouse, not a good precondition for a console port. These additions are interesting, but not so well executed that they raise the overall quality of the port. N64-specific features: The N64 version adds a lab to grow new plants, a horse-racing mini-game, an 'omiai' dating sub-game, a very basic space shooting game, and a virtual pet - other than that it is identical to the PC/Mac version. It's really addicting to create a functioning microcosm - but there are a number of problems with the N64 version that keep us from recommending the game. Just like the PC version, SimCity 2000 on the N64 potentially offers never-ending gameplay. To spice up the gameplay once in a while, the computer randomly punishes you with disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, or even an alien attack. That's where the real game begins: Juggle resources, make sure that crime and pollution don't get out of hand, build police stations, new power plants, schools, parks, airports, football stadiums, and more. After a while, new businesses will start to flourish and people will move into your city. For a certain fee, you lay out industrial, residential, or commercial zones, build streets and railways, connect electricity, handle water resources, and then wait for things to grow. Gameplay: Type in your name and the name of your city and start building up a major metropolis on an empty lot. But while the company is breaking new grounds in the fighting and RPG arena, Sim City 2000 is a step backward in more than one sense of the word. Judging from games like Fighters Destiny or Quest 64, Imagineer is perhaps the most promising Japanese developer for N64. What follows is the review of Imagineer's Sim City 2000, available only in Japan. Note that SimCity 2000 and Nintendo's SimCity 64 are two completely different games.

Simcity 2000 music