![]() As you purchase weapon upgrades to your car, you can also try to win back the streets by blowing away the competition. You drive around the city completing your assigned tasks while avoiding enemy cars. The gameplay itself is quite rudimentary. As you can see, the differences between the programs are quite superficial. You must visit a series of checkpoints within the allotted time without being blown up by overzealous police officers. In another program, Granny's Wide Ride, your goal is to spread word of a secret alien invasion by driving to various spots in a city delivering packages, all the while avoiding the attacks of alien agents. You win by earning at least the episode quota within the allocated time period. For example, in one of the programs, Zip Courier Service, your job is to earn money by picking up packages at various locations around the city and then delivering them to their proper locations. You must drive though a city and visit a series of hot-spots randomly scattered around the map, while staying alive and destroying enemy cars that cross your path. Each program is an unique scenario with different objectives that must be accomplished, but the basic premises are the same. Streets is divided into 5 different 'programs', each of which are also subdivided into 'episodes'. Unfortunately, the game is only imbued with half the wit and rather than charming you with a groovy theme, ends up looking more like a cheesy rip-off. Interstate '76 is, without dispute, one the best driving-combat games of the year, and Streets of Simcity, with its funky cars and big guns, shares a similar set of ingredients. I suppose the comparisons would have been unavoidable in any case. Everything from the pseudo-television motif used in the transition screens to the entire TV-show style gameplay featuring characters with names such as Marvin Dufus, Granny O'Hare reminded me of one thing- Interstate '76. However, these similarities aren't necessarily what you might expect or find desirable. Looking at Streets of Simcity, there are some immediate familiarities that strike you the moment you flip open the manual or boot up the game. For all intents and purposes this promise has been kept, but as I will elaborate upon later, the result is less than ideal. For me, the prospect of cruising through one my own creations up close and personal at street level kept me eyeing the release date. However, in a market saturated with high quality driving games, the advertised feature that gamers will find most enticing is the option to load up and drive in any Simcity 2000 city. Streets employs an improved version of the Simcopter 3D engine, but while Simcopter is a helicopter simulation, Streets takes on the arcade racing genre with tires smoking and guns blazing. However, the game is plagued with a plethora of problems and will disappoint even the most avid of Simcity fans. Streets of Simcity, an arcade driving game, is the product of the company's most recent efforts. ![]() By moving away from its strengths, Maxis risks losing itself in unfamiliar water, where the fish tend to grow bigger and the competition is stiffer. However, as a company trying to expand its horizons, the transition to more mainstream action-oriented gaming will not be without its teething pains. Simtropolis has a pinned topic on what to look for in the forum.For almost a decade now, Maxis has worked to build a franchise on its thoughtful and addictive management simulations, and has earned a respectable reputation for its efforts. Whichever route you take make sure that you apply the recommended fixes to make the game more stable. The Origin version I don't think has the right patch so steer clear of that one. Personally I prefer GOG but the Steam version is good. Or the safer route buy a digital version of the game. This does not contain the DRM software, won't run the CD check and so Windows won't shut the game down. As the game is already installed you can Google for a nocd exe file for the game version that you have. Microsoft declared those kinds of software a security risk and disables them from running so when SimCity 4 tries to run the CD check when you click on the game shortcut, Windows shuts it down but doesn't tell you that so you just think nothing has happened. ie: the thing that runs a check on game start up to see if you are using the CD so it knows that you own a genuine copy. Windows 10 does not let certain older DRM software run.
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