SimCity 4 Day (Early!)

January 11, 2003 2:33 PM

Although the official website and PR's we've gotten have been shooting for January 14th, a number of reports have come in that SimCity4 is indeed available on a few different shelves around the US right now. To be specific, we've gotten 3 different EB reports in central and west coast, and a couple guys on the east coast saying the pre-orders have come in for the special edition.

- Screenshots
- Videos @ Fileshack
- Official website

Sure could use a demo of this game! Cant say I've really been thrilled with the last couple of SimCity games, but you always gotta hold out hope?

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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chillin

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January 11, 2003 2:34 PM

yeeeehehehe i love this game
- gotcha1
  
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  January 12, 2003 4:50 AM
  
  i only played it for 16 hours today..... woops
  
  harder than hell to balance the budget compared with 3000, but i guess it's realistic...
  
  crashed once in that period, found a few bugs (including a beautiful showstopper) that i guess i'll need to report to maxis on monday-whatever. thanks for ruining Maxis like you do with everything else, EA.
  - jedi_27
    
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    January 12, 2003 7:19 AM
    
    why do people blame EA ? EA pays the dev group and publishs the game. How is it their fault ?
    - BulletPro
      
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      January 12, 2003 8:15 AM
      
      EA tends to push schedules pretty hard.
      - djustifier
        
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        January 12, 2003 10:10 AM
        
        If they didn't, developers wouldn't get the game out the door. Anyone seen Team Fortress 2 or Duke Nukem Forever?
        
        []v[]adwacker
        
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        January 12, 2003 10:29 AM
        
        yea.. but I've worked on a team where EA was the publisher..and they push HARD.
        
        djustifier
        
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        January 12, 2003 11:00 AM
        
        You really can't argue with their business strategy. They're #1 in the industry for a reason.