(PC) The SimCity Box
One hell of a deal – Amazon’s ‘Deal of the Day’ – The SimCity Box for $15
Sep 26th
Talk about a steal! If you don’t happen to own a copy of the great game called SimCity 4, then you must do
everyone a favor and purchase it TODAY! It’s just one of the games bundled in The SimCity Box. Amazon’s “Deal of the Day” consists of The SimCity Box for only $14.98 – saving you $15.00.
Not only will you get the original SimCity 4, but it is also packed with its expansion, SimCity 4: Rush Hour, SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations (expansion), The Sims Carnival SnapCity, and even the trial version of Spore Creature Creator. A pretty good deal for only $15 bucks.
As Arnold Schwarzenegger would say, “Gooooo!!! Gooooo Naaaaaoooooowwwwww!!!”
GameSpot’s review for The SimCity Box
Jul 7th
Honestly, are there people out there who don’t own any SimCity games? I guess there is since EA decided to release The SimCity Box. GameSpot believes it to be a great solution if you want to try to convert someone to a SimCity fan. At least it makes an easy birthday/christmas present.
Together, these four games make The SimCity Box a worthwhile value, if only because there’s so much gameplay for a good price. SimCity 4, the oldest game of the bunch, still looks good and sounds great, so there’s no reason to shy away if you’re worried about the dated visuals. The pair of Societies titles looks better by today’s standards, though the frame rate can get a little rough in a city packed with structures and decorations. All four of them benefit from a good deal of charm, from the oft-hilarious news tickers to the dramatic-looking disasters that can lay your city to waste. As for the fifth included game, Sims Carnival: SnapCity, it’s best to ignore it completely and hope it goes away. It’s a weird and boring mixture of Tetris and SimCity, and as interesting as that sounds, you shouldn’t play it.
It’s too bad that The SimCity Box isn’t more historically relevant: A package including SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, and SimCity 4 (and their add-ons) would have made for a fantastic, entertaining look at an important game universe. Thankfully, four of the five titles included provide enough value and entertainment to be worth the price, so if you’re looking for a broad introduction to the SimCity series, this is a good way to start.
Press Release – The SimCity Box Hits Store Shelves Today
Jun 27th
Five Of The Most Innovative PC City-Building Games Now Available For The Value Price of MSRP $39.99
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Sims™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) Label, today announced that The SimCity™ Box for the PC is on store shelves in the US and Canada. For the value price of MSRP $39.99, The SimCity Box offers five city-building games in one package that individually would cost more than MSRP $100.00. The titles from the award-winning franchise included in The SimCity Box are SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations expansion pack, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour expansion pack and The Sims Carnival™ SnapCity. Also included, as a special bonus, is a trial version of the Spore™ Creature Creator.
“For nearly 20 years, SimCity has made building, managing and sometimes destroying cities a fun, cultural phenomenon,” said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims. “By offering The SimCity Box at such an extraordinary value, we give current fans and an entirely new generation of players countless hours of city-building exploration, strategic challenge and fun. This is certainly the greatest value SimCity has ever brought to players.”
What’s in The SimCity Box:
- SimCity Societies: Players construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal tendencies and environments as well. With more than 500 buildings and decorative objects to place, the possibilities are almost limitless as players can build artistic cities, authoritarian dictatorships, spiritual communities and many more. An accessible, innovative and versatile city-builder, the game lets players create the city of their dreams, or their nightmares. Included in The SimCity Box is the original SimCity Societies game along with all the subsequent game updates, which have added new strategic modes, three new exotic disasters (UFO invasion, giant robot attack and a massive fire-breathing monster), new crises, new user interface functions, new buildings and much more. Even more free content and features are being planned for future updates.
- SimCity Societies Destinations expansion pack: Enhance the SimCity Societies experience by providing all the tools players need to create an entire city based on attractions and amenities that visitors love. The expansion pack allows players to control more than 100 new buildings to create their customized destinations including sprawling theme parks, tropical beach resorts, and country hiking trails. Featuring an enhanced map generator, players can now identify each city’s opportunity for diversion and the city can capitalize on that draw.
- SimCity 4: Right from the start in SimCity 4, players will experience new God-like powers of creation as they lay the groundwork for their cities by molding mountains, carving valleys, seeding forests and laying rivers. With these new landscape creation features, players can now construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable.
- SimCity 4 Rush Hour expansion pack: Take control of the city’s transportation with a wide variety of new options such as the elevated train networks of Chicago, the wide-avenues of New York, or the one-way streets of San Francisco. Players can develop a seamless mass-transit system including monorail, subway, or even a scenic ferry service that connects to a greater regional travel network. With all-new problem-solving maps and tracking tools, players can see the pulsing flow of traffic, map out the most efficient routes, and quickly get their Sims from one city to another.
- The Sims Carnival SnapCity: A unique city-building simulation game with a puzzling twist that is both strategic and accessible. In this fun, open-ended gameplay experience challenges players to position falling, colored blocks in just the right places to build the best possible cities. Featuring an array of industrial, commercial and residential neighborhoods, it’s never the same city twice! The fun never stops as the player must save this city from natural disasters, man-made catastrophes, and even out-of-this-world alien attacks! Players can also pick-up-and-play by jumping into 25 unique existing neighborhood levels.
About the SimCity™ Franchise
The original SimCity was distributed in 1989 and was critically acclaimed garnering dozens of awards and selling millions of copies both domestically and internationally. SimCity 2000™ followed in 1993. SimCity 3000™ released in 1999. SimCity 3000 and SimCity 3000 Unlimited both released in 2000. EA shipped SimCity 4 Rush Hour and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition in 2003. SimCity Societies shipped in November 2007.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS FreestyleTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, The Sims, SimCity, The Sims Carnival, SimCity 2000 and SimCity 3000 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Source: BusinessWire
SimCity Societies Destinations & The SimCity Box now available
Jun 25th
Just thought I would throw this out there for SimCity Societies fans that the new expansion pack is available for download at the EA Store. SimCity Societies Destinations is priced at $29.95 and includes the ability to create destinations for you to attract tourists to your city. I wish this would of been a stand-alone product…
For those of you that want to purchase this game in stores, you can find it in The SimCity Box which is released today. The SimCity Box is priced at $39.95 and contains SimCity 4, SimCity 4: Rush Hour, SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations, The Sims Carnival: Snap City, and a free demo of Spore’s Creature Creator. Not too shabby if you don’t own any of the games.
It’s true, get ready to start creating your Spore creatures this June!
Apr 15th
IGN has confirmed that The SimCity Box will feature some form of the Spore creature creator. Earlier today, rumors regarding the addition of the creature creator swirled on Amazon and Joystiq , as a box image for The SimCity Box emerged with the Spore content promoted in the corner.
So this explains it, the article I posted 10 minutes earlier is in fact true! June cannot get here fast enough. I already have quite a few ideas on what creatures to create, so I’m ready – bring it on!
Spore Creature Creator could be included in The SimCity Box
Apr 15th
Joystiq reports that on Amazon’s page for The SimCity Box, it describes under the product features that the Spore Creature Creator will be packed in the box. If this is the case, then the Spore Creature Creator will indeed be coming out in the month of June (as reported below of a date of June 17th for a stand-alone version).
Joystiq also found a picture of the game’s box which when blown up, does confirm the fact Spore Creature Creator will be included. However, I’m not sure where the picture actually came from…
EA announces “The SimCity Box”
Apr 10th
I can see the business meeting now:
Boss: Johnson! We need to figure out a name for the compilation of SimCity games.
Johnson: *Half awake* …..uhhhhhh it’s SimCity…will be shipped in a box….The SimCity Box?
Boss: That’s brilliant!
Yes, coming this June The SimCity Box can be yours for only $39.99 and contains the following games in one box: SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour, SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations and The Sims Carnival – SnapCity.
EA Unveils The SimCity Box
Popular PC Gaming Franchise Offers Five Innovative City-Building Games in One Box at One Low Price
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced The SimCity™ Box, a bundled pack of five games from the world-renowned SimCity™ franchise. The SimCity Box contains SimCity™ Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations, SimCity™ 4, SimCity™ 4 Rush Hour and The Sims Carnival™ SnapCity. Valued at approximately $100.00 USD, The SimCity Box will be available this June in North America at the affordable price of $39.99 USD.
“The SimCity Box is the perfect opportunity to discover the fun of city building with SimCity,” said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims. “This is the greatest value SimCity has ever offered and players everywhere can get hands-on with a wide range of SimCity products from one box at an amazing price.”
- SimCity Societies: In SimCity Societies, players construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal tendencies and environments as well. They can build artistic cities, authoritarian dictatorships, spiritual communities and many more. With this accessible, innovative and versatile city-builder, players can create the city of their dreams, or their nightmares. With more than 500 buildings and decorative objects to place, the possibilities are almost limitless. Since launch, four free game updates have added new strategic modes that will challenge your mayoral skills, three new exotic disasters (UFO invasion, giant robot attack and a massive fire-breathing monster) new crises, new UI functions, new buildings and much more. More free content and features are being planned for future updates.
- SimCity Societies Destinations: SimCity Societies Destinations enhances the SimCity Societies experience by providing all the tools players need to create an entire city or town based on attractions and amenities that visitors enjoy. With an enhanced map generator, players can identify each city’s opportunity for diversion and the city can capitalize on that draw. From sprawling theme parks and tropical beach resorts to country hiking trails, players can control more than 100 new buildings to create their customized destination.
- SimCity 4: Right from the start in SimCity 4, players will experience new God-like powers of creation as they lay the groundwork for their cities by molding mountains, carving valleys, seeding forests and laying rivers. With these new landscape creation features, players can now construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable.
- SimCity 4 Rush Hour: In SimCity 4 Rush Hour, players take control of their city’s transportation with a wide variety of new options. They can create the elevated train networks of Chicago, the wide-avenues of New York, or the one-way streets of San Francisco. Players can develop a seamless mass-transit system including monorail, subway, or even a scenic ferry service that connects to a greater regional travel network. With all-new problem-solving maps and tracking tools, players can see the pulsing flow of traffic, map out the most efficient routes, and quickly get their Sims from one city to another.
- The Sims Carnival SnapCity: The Sims Carnival SnapCity is a unique city-building simulation game with a puzzle twist that is both strategic and accessible. In a fun, open-ended gameplay environment, players are challenged to position falling, colored blocks in just the right places to build the best possible cities. Featuring an array of industrial, commercial and residential neighborhoods, it’s never the same city twice! The fun never stops as you save your city from natural disasters, man-made catastrophes, even out-of-this-world alien attacks!Players can also pick-up-and-play by jumping into 25 unique existing neighborhood levels.
The SimCity franchise is one of the most popular PC gaming franchises in history, having sold more than 17 million games worldwide to date since the SimCity launch in 1989.
About the SimCity™ Franchise
The original SimCity was distributed in 1989 and was critically acclaimed garnering dozens of awards and selling millions of copies both domestically and internationally. SimCity 2000™ followed in 1993. SimCity 3000™ released in 1999. SimCity 3000 and SimCity 3000 Unlimited both released in 2000. EA shipped SimCity 4 Rush Hour and SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition in 2003. SimCity Societies shipped in November 2007.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA SPORTS BIG™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2007, EA posted revenue of $3.09 billion and had 24 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS BIG, POGO, SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000 and The Sims are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Source: BusinessWire
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