But it runs nicely here, and it's still such a pleasure to lay down those roads and water pipes. And disappointingly, EA hasn't given it a technological overhaul for the release, instead popping it into DOSBox and hoping for the best. It's the one I played until the entire grid was arcologies, my Sims living in utter utopia.Īt twenty years old (oh my aching linearity), you'll not be surprised to learn it's a little weary. And obviously the series moved on in leaps and bounds, but 2000 remains the definitive entry for me. ![]() The original Sim City was a brilliant thing, but is extremely clunky now. And Sim City 2000, while clearly readily available at bargain prices all over for many years, is not to be sniffed at. It and Uplay are obviously hideously put together pieces of infernal annoyance, but so long as you're never loopy enough to actually buy anything through their ludicrously over-priced stores, it's not endless torture to install to get free stuff. Which, at this point, you might as well give up and accept. Which makes it splendid news that just now, Sim City 2000 is free!įree on Origin. And I'd argue it was never any more brilliant than in Sim City 2000. Its launch and the outright bullshit that EA span around it was a disaster, but the game was simply a quite disappointing entry in a formerly brilliant series.
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