SimCity 4

Say what?! Which retailers?!

Never played 3000, will buy 4.

I keep hearing about some stores breaking the release date. If you find it early, let us know here!

Everybody has it and is selling it. Installing now!

Well, I live in South Jersey and a lot of the retailers here have broken it. EB and Gamestop are both selling the game. Check around, I'm sure you'll find it.

Supposedly Bestbuy broke first, so they all followed suit. Lucky for me I live near a best buy and the game is too enticing to pass up! Keep in mind if the series had never changed I'd never know as I haven't played any of them indepth since the original.

I have enjoyed the SimCity series since I first played it on an old Apple Mac. If school wasn't starting on Wednesday I'd be all over this :( Maybe around the Spring Break I can pick it up.

It looks amazing to me and I can't wait to play it...whenever that will be. And I still have the Morrowind Tribunal expansion to get through. Grrrr stupid education ;)

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It's pretty sweet. I havn't played a simcity game since the original, and skipped over the last too. The game looks wonderful to say the least. I want to put more time into before I really comment on it, but I will say this: if you didn't like any of the past games, you won't like this. And it's a hard game. Really hard to make a profit when you start out.

Is it possible to turn off the feature where the game builds roads as you put down zones? A lot of times it puts the roads down in really weird places.

How does it run, and what are your specs? I've heard horror stories of slowdown, even on Pentium 4's and GeForce 3's.

I just built my new computer on Sunday.

512MB RAM, Asus mobo (Nvidia Nforce2 chipset on it), Geforce 4 ti 4200 (128mb) Athlon XP 2100+ (1.7 ghz), Seagate 80 gig 7200 HD, running Windows XP. Latest drivers for everything.

One things for sure...this game is a RAM hog. The more you have the better. I wouldn't try to run it on anything less than 256MB. It runs fine on mine, but I noticed that when I rotate the map, the buildings dissappear and then pop back into place. And when I zoom in, sometimes I can see the shadows being drawn in. Looks funky, but doesn't effect the game. Oh and I believe it's a 1 gig install.

I would imagine you'd be fine with anything over a gigahertz and as much ram as you can get. There are stats for everything imaginable, and once you get a city going, there can be a whole lotta shit going on.