You can add 2013 to the title so people don't confuse it with the original. It used to force you to have an internet connection to play the game at all, but they're adding an offline mode due to complaint from fans. There's also multiplayer, which can be nice, though someone might create a crappy city and totally screw up the cities around. You can have curved and custom elevated roads, which is really nice. SimCity 2013 is a fair bit easier than SimCity 4 and more fun to play, IMO. SimCity 2013 is a very beautiful game graphics wise, but your cities are limited to a relatively small box. The freedom to build whatever kind of city and at whatever size you want makes up for it though. You can't have curved or fancy roads without hard-to-understand mods, and it can get a little boring at times, though. Create the city you desire and make choices that will shape your city and the Sims in it. This collection is packed with an expanded core game, the SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack, and the Amusement Park, Airship, French, British and German City sets.

SimCity 4 has outdated graphics, but it's a great city simulator, and it gives you a lot of freedom to build whatever kind of city you want. Experience the newest version of SimCity - the greatest city-simulator of all time.

Yes mod hunting is harder than just installing 2013, but IMO Simcity 4+mods is much much better than Simcity 2013. And then just go through Simtropolus and sc4devotion for good lots, be they parks, residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, whatever (but keep track of what 'dependencies' these have or they wouldn't show up properly in game). If you want a good rural/farming city, go look through SimPeg, he also does very good waterfronts/docks/piers. If you like building huge cities you should probably get CAM, it adds more 'growth stages' (meaning building denser and denser with more gradiation) that make cities look better and handle some of the super-big buildings without completely clogging your city. The extra transportation options and improved traffic algorithem alone make a world of difference. But I would maybe take 2013 over 4 if mods were taken out of the equation.īut just adding NAM alone is like adding another whole expansion pack (maybe more). If you go with 4, you need at least some mods.

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