Most types of power plants have a limited life span and must be rebuilt periodically. There are a total of nine varieties of power plants in SimCity 2000, including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind turbines, hydroelectric dams (which can only be placed on waterfall tiles), solar and the futuristic fusion power and satellite microwave plant. Players can build highways, roads, bus depots, railway tracks, subways, train depots and zone land for seaports and airports. New types of facilities include prisons, schools, libraries, museums, marinas, hospitals and arcologies. It had a near-isometric dimetric view (similar to the earlier Maxis-published A-Train) instead of overhead, land could have different elevations, and underground layers were introduced for water pipes and subways. SimCity 2000 was a major extension of the concept. The unexpected and enduring success of the original SimCity, combined with the relative lack of success with other ' Sim' titles, finally motivated the development of a sequel. While its predecessor pioneered the city-building genre of video games, SimCity 2000 would become the model upon which subsequent urban simulators would be based over the course of the next decades.Ī screenshot of a city during an intermediate stage of the game An approximate total of 4.23 million copies of SimCity 2000 have been sold, mainly in the United States, Europe and Japan. SimCity 2000 was critically praised for its vibrant and detailed graphics, improved control menu, gameplay and music. Importance is put on increasing the standard of living of the population, maintaining a balance between the different sectors, and monitoring the region's environmental situation to prevent the settlement from declining and going bankrupt, as extreme deficit spending gets a game over.

The objective of the game is to create a city, develop residential and industrial areas, build infrastructure and collect taxes for further development of the city. SimCity 2000 is played from an isometric perspective as opposed to the previous title, which was played from a top-down perspective. It is the successor to SimCity Classic and was released for Apple Macintosh personal computers in 1993, after which it was released on other platforms over the following years, such as the Sega Saturn and SNES game consoles in 1995 and the PlayStation in 1996. This leaves the game in a useless state as environmental activists complain each time you to try to build something on a square.SimCity 2000 is a city-building simulation video game jointly developed by Will Wright and Fred Haslam of Maxis. 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 means that two sides of an object are at the same angle, while the other is not.įew gamers must have noticed that trees actually multiply in Perspective SimCity 2000 is viewed from a dimetric rather than isometric perspective. Trivia 1001 Video Games SimCity 2000 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

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