obobskivich wrote:SimCity 2000 and Streets of SimCity will allow you to do everything you want - Streets will load the same maps from SC2k and you can traverse them in cars. Also look at SimCity Societies, which doesn't let you "drive" but has much more detailed graphics and affords a street-level view.
I have tried Streets of Sim City a long time back - I had it years ago, and to me it's a real contender for the worst game ever. The theory is great, being able to drive around the cities that you build, but SOSS is so bland and badly done, for example, it only has one pedestrian model (and you never see two or more pedestrians together, and the one pedestrian you see seems to walk sideways), the buildings look unconvincing, and you get little feeling of movement in the game, from what I remember.
Worse are the bugs - you can drive straight over some rivers and parts of the sea, but others cause your car to explode. Sometimes the camera view is blocked by a building, so that all you can see is the side of a house instead of your car, and other times (when the camera view is not a problem!) you can see through buildings. I seem to recall other bugs, like the car suddenly somehow facing the opposite way to the way you were driving, and the car handling very badly. And the game gave no feeling of taking place in a living, breathing city.
Thanks for the suggestion, but unless Streets of Sim City was patched (or actually re-built from the ground up!) then I don't think I want to revisit it at all.
Getting away from Maxis, you might consider some of the Tycoon games which allow "street level" view of whatever you're building, and Startopia which has detailed per-NPC views and is more micro-level/micro-managed.[/quote]
I've not tried any Tycoon (except for Roller Coaster Tycoon, I think) or Startopia, so I'll look them up, thanks.
Skyscraper wrote:I like Sim City 2000 best when it comes to city-building games 😀
That game was great, I liked it a lot.
smeezekitty wrote:Simcity 4 has a driving mode. Although it is rather terrible (top down view)
Still, it is quite nice visually overall.
Hmmm, not really what I wanted (just looked on Youtube), I'd prefer a first person driving view. Thanks though.