Audio is well done, with well composed music and interesting, accurate town and city noises. Whether viewing the city from a bird's eye perspective or up close and personal to homes, businesses, or traffic, the level of detail and finesse are obvious. The graphics are nothing short of fantastic. Sim City 4 also boasts a newer, more complete interface, even more in-depth manipulation of finances and city budgets, a reworked cost structure and even the ability to import your favorite Sims character to live and work in your city. Sim City 4, the latest incarnation from Maxis and publisher EA Games, follows the tried and true methods of gameplay that made the original Sim City titles so entertaining. This is why I'm currently playing SimCity 4 and why 1 will keep playing until he releases SimCity 5 in 2011.

A partnership that should have happened 20 years ago will finally be formed. I have a feeling he'll really appreciate my creative input and knowledge of BASIC. I've been doing this for 20 years and have reached the point where I'm ready to email my list to him - with a gallery of screenshots. In fact, I like to play SimCity 4 as much as possible so I can make a list of all the things he got wrong (as I have with all the previous versions). I only think about it once or twice a day and sometimes I don't even think about it at all. Before you know it Will Wright is a multi-millionaire game designer whereas I. I know because I saw it on WarGames.ДЄnyway, during one particularly drunken multiplayer session when the two of them were bemoaning the state of online 8-bit gaming, Mr Wright the teacher must have let slip the genius of my GCSE project to Will. As techy types they probably had futuristic means of communication using a powerful computer and a phone line. The fact that my teacher lived in Portsmouth, England and Will Wright lived in America isn't relevant. Now, whilst he wasn't the Mr Wright, I have my suspicions they were related. Mr Wright, my teacher, obviously saw something there. It was a terrible, unwieldy thing - but incredibly I got an A for it. Written in BASIC, you could move around the screen with the cursor keys and place a section of road with the 'R' key or a house by pressing 'H'. I programmed a little utility on the BBC Micro called, rather inspirationally, Housing Estate Planner. Back In 1987 was working on my GCSE Computer Studies project.

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