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MISSED OUT ON THIS excellent game and its expansion pack? Well now's your chance to own them both with this soon to be released Deluxe Edition.

Featuring both the original game and the Rush Hour expansion, this pack promises to be an excellent addition to your gaming library. We rated the original game very highly, with its great graphics and animation. Combined with an absorbing economic and development model, it was a game that represented hours of great gameplay. It is one of those games that you will find you will go back to on those rainy days when the appeal of latest and greatest games has waned.

For those new to the genre, the game involves players creating a city from the ground up. You need to establish building zones including the various types of residential, industrial and commercial zones. As you add amenities and features to your town, residents move in and your city comes alive with people and cars etc. You are then faced with balacing jobs, health care and services to keep the city growing while keeping the finances in the black. This is no easy task, but one that absorbs many hours of playing time.

Check out the full list of features:-

SimCity 4:

• Create an Entire Region of Cities
  Weave together a tapestry of cities and watch them share and compete for resources that are linked by a fully integrated transportation network.
• Wield God-like Powers
  Sculpt the landscape to create a world based on your imagination, then summon volcanoes, tornadoes, meteors, and lightning.
• Be a Responsive Mayor
  Build a world-class city with stadia, airports, universities, and real-world landmarks. Deploy emergency vehicles and join in the action as they battle blazes, mobs, and more.
• Get Insight from your Sims
  Read the rhythm of the city - from commuter hell to mellow cruising, noontime crowds to night time calm.

• U-Drive-It
  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 score skyrocket and the desirability of your city soar.
• Exciting New Transportation Options
  Put things in motion by creating the one-way streets of San Francisco, wide avenues of New York, or high-speed monorails of Tokyo.
• 100+ New Structures
  Choose from new structures including rail yards, lighthouses, ferry buildings, or even a space shuttle launch centre.
• New Maps and Tools
  Track the ebb and flow of traffic throughout the day and plan out efficient routes for Sims to get to work or between cities as part of a massive regional transportation network.
• Make Your Mark
  Create signposts to designate neighbourhoods, districts, and points of interest. Place labels on streets, mountains, and bodies of water to personalize your city.
• New Disasters
  Test your nerves with the new UFO invasion, snarl traffic with car accidents, or wreak havoc with train derailments. Sit back and watch chaos rule, or take action to avert future disasters.
• New Building Set Options
  Lay out your metropolis based on an all-new Modern European building set or the original SimCity 4 sets: 1890s Chicago, 1940s New York, and 1990s Houston.
• New Tutorials and Difficulty Levels
  Getting started has never been easier, faster, or more fun, thanks to four new tutorials. Plus, you can now set the game's difficulty level.

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