• Create, build and run the most realistic city you can imagine
• Deploy police cruisers and fire trucks to the scene
• Sculpt mountains, gouge valleys, and seed forests
• Connect your metropolis with other cities you've created to form a massive region of SimCities
• System Requirements - Operating System - Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later; CPU Processor - PowerPC G4 or later; CPU Speed - 700 MHz or faster; Memory - 256 MB recommended; Hard Disk Space - 2.0 GB free disk space; Video Card (ATI) - ATI Radeon 7500 or better; Video Card (NVidia) - GeForce2 MX or better; Video Memory (VRam) - 32 MB or higher; Media Required - DVD Drive required to install and play

• PC Gamer (1-year)
• ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card

SimCity 4 Deluxe lets you design, build and watch your city as it takes shape before your eyes. Catch thugs and criminals, put out fires with fire trucks and drive through the city streets that YOU created. Fight disasters both realistic and fantastic, and govern your own virtual metropolis as you see fit. Includes the hit SimCity 4 and the SimCity 4: Rush Hour expansion pack.

Weave together a tapestry of cities and watch them share and compete for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network. Be a responsive mayor, and build a world-class city with stadiums, airports, universities, and real-world landmarks. Deploy emergency vehicles and join in the action as they battle blazes, mobs and more. And, with the added bonus of Rush Hour, take complete control over cars, helicopters, and ambulances on the streets of your city and guide them to their destination. Turn up the police siren and catch the car-jackers, or control the helicopter spotlight to track down the bank robbers. So take charge, solve missions, earn new rewards, buildings and vehicles. Watch your rating skyrocket and the desirability of your city soar.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Useless will not run on Mac OS !
Comment: What a waste of money! Will not run on OS 10.4 or 10.5, customer service and website could not help me. Runs for 5 minutes and gets slower and slower and slower and then freezes. I have more than the recommended minimum requirements! Do not buy if you plan on running it on a Mac.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great game - for a select few
Comment: I love this game.

It brings out the best of the old game I played on my Mac Plus. At the same time, it adds great detail and motion that the old Macs could never acheive.

It keeps the play simple, which is great because I have never been able to keep up with games that demand multiple button play. Just a few keys and the mouse. It also manages to modernize and add some more options without the need for the above mentioned extra button work.

Now the bad news,

The box says it can be used with a G4 700MHz Mac or above. Most reviews and my experience say that it takes more power to enjoy the game. The box actually recommends a G5 iMac or PowerMac. I would agree, I have no problem with the game, but I am running a G5 PowerMac.

The problem with this is that most people with a high-end G4 PowerMac or above that can use this game have already upgraded to OS 10.5 Leopard. And this game will not work on 10.5 Leopard. You must use 10.3 or 10.4, I had to load 10.3 on an external HD. But not everybody has the time, money or know-how to do this.

Please also note that this is not a Universal Binary game, so it will not work on any Intel-based Macs of any kind.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Its ok
Comment: I thought it would be more fun than this. I was wrong. I thought I could make my own buildings, etc. But that is not true. Hour & hours of frustration. I put the game away. I couldn't even figure out how to add the city to my Sims 2 game that everyone brags about:(

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not For MacBook
Comment: Sim City 4 is an awesome game, I've been playing it for years on my pc and would play for hours. Recently I got a mac and found out that there was also a mac version, so I bought, installed it, and was EXTREMELY disappointed. There are tons of bugs in the game, some graphics flicker a lot and there is a huge delay time between when you click a button in the game and it actually does what you want it to do...it's very frustrating, even with all the visual effects on their lowest performance possible, the game still runs unbelievably slow and is not worth 60 dollars AT ALL. The game still runs slow even with the patch released. I'll be playing this game on my pc and returning the mac version.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Does not work on OSX 10.5 (LEOPARD)
Comment: This is an awesome game, but it STILL does not work on the newest operating system (OSX 10.5); it is slow and it crashes. IF you have an older mac system, this game is great. If you have a newer system, do not waste your money until they release an update for Leopard.

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