![]() ![]() A nice idea, though, but needs more work. I had a much easier time with the helicopter than the automobile, but it was still pretty lame. The gameplay controls for both of these are sub-standard, and difficult to master. Rush Hour includes some optional side-games that allow you to earn additional cash, or mayor rating points, by piloting a helicopter or automobile around the city. The best part, though, is the traffic-query tool, which allows you to click on any building and view all the traffic patterns to/from this location, including pedestrian, auto, bus and elevated train, basically any traffic pattern type that you have in play at the time. Reviewing the "Rush Hour" version of Sim City 4, which adds items like one-way streets, ground level highways, elevated commuter trains and the like, one wonders why EA Games didn't include these great add-ons right out the gate with SC4. Slowdowns are not uncommon, cars will appear in the street from out of nowhere, and invisible walls keep you from running into houses and buildings. The texture quality may fluctuate between great and terrible. Getting your vehicle to point A, than B, etc.The controls are difficult to learn, the aircraft handle like crap, the cars are very fragile and are difficult to steer, making laughable crashes between cars common place, and making pedestrians (which aren't affected by you running them over I might add) common. Well, the main feature was supposed to be the ability to drive around the city etc. (Hmmm, could that be a Beta for "SimChicago" ?) Being able to be a corrupt mayor (to a point) is pretty interesting. There are some new roads like the one-way road, but these don't add a whole lot of gameplay value in my humble opinion. The graphics are the same as the original, the sounds are too. There isn't really a whole lot to say about this. You may also cause traffic accidents and train derailments. The major disaster lets you rain down a UFO attack on your city. Rush Hour allows you to personalize your city by giving you the ability to name streets, highways, neighborhoods, mountains, and bodies of water. ![]() You can build elevated railways, saving precious ground space, you can create a ferry system to transport Sims from one of your islands to another (residential to industrial, perhaps?), you can construct a monorail network to get Sims to long destinations fast, and you can add double-wide avenues along your city streets to increase speed, and possibly traffic. You have a plethora of new transportation options available, to make your Sims trips easier and faster. You can take control of a speedboat and chase criminals through your canals, you can take your Sims on a tourist ride by hopping into the engineer's booth of a train, you can track down criminals in a police car, being sure to avoid traffic, you can call in the heavy artillery and take control of your army's tank, or you can please the populace by taking control of a single engine plane and and impress everyone with skywriting. This expasion allows you to take complete control of your city by allowing you to jump directly into the action. Rush Hour is the first expansion pack for SimCity 4. ![]()
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