SimCity 2000
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SimCity 2000 is a simulator developed by Maxis, released 1 December 1993 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What SimCity 2000 is
SimCity 2000 is a simulator game developed by Maxis and released in 1993. It was published by Artdink. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Super Famicom, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, DOS, FM Towns, Legacy Computer, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PC-9800 Series and Windows Mobile.
The premise, in the publisher's words
SimCity 2000 is a city-building simulation video game jointly developed by Will Wright and Fred Haslam of Maxis. It is the successor to SimCity Classic (1989) and was released for Apple Macintosh and MS-DOS personal computers in 1993, after which it was released on many other platforms over the following years, such as the Sega Saturn and SNES game consoles in 1995 and the PlayStation in 1996.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are business and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sim series
SimCity 2000 is the eighth of 64 entries we hold in the Sim series. It arrived 11 months after SimLife. The next entry was SimRefinery in 1993. Its critic score of 71 is 4 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is SimCity 3000 at 85.
How it was received
SimCity 2000 holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 43% of the 2,881 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 213 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 2.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
SimCity 2000 launched on 1 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X and Romancing SaGa 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Romancing SaGa 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for SimCity 2000 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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