10 Facts About SimCity 4

SimCity 4 is a city-building simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts.

SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game.

SimCity 4 introduces night and day cycles and other special effects for the first time in the SimCity series.

SimCity 4 was praised for being the second game in the SimCity series to primarily use a 3D engine to render its graphics, the first being SimCity 64 for the discontinued Nintendo 64DD.

Agriculture is a separate industrial zone-type, unlike previous versions of SimCity 4, enabling farms to grow regardless of high land value, so long as demand exists for agriculture and agricultural zones have been provided.

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Buildings in SimCity 4 are based on four distinct architectural styles, which can be selected simultaneously or only on one era to be built.

SimCity 4 Building Architect Tool is similar in function to SimCity 3000 Building Architect Tool and SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit; however, previous programs of this kind were created from scratch by Maxis and used completely different interfaces.

SimCity 4 received further reviews after the release of the Macintosh version.

SimCity 4 was chosen as one of IGN's "Editors' Choice" games for January 2003.

The second was SimCity 4, which was announced in March 2012 and was released in March 2013.