Hurmoth Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 SimCity 4 Deluxe Lands On Mac, And It Looks Stunning Fancy building your own glittering high-tech utopia, or a bustling cosmopolitan metropolis? Either way, gamers will be happy to know that SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition today became available for download, exclusively in the Mac App Store. Combining both SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack ? which adds bonus disasters like UFO attacks and Autosaurus Wrecks ? the game is a steal at $19.99. SimCity fans will likely be familiar with the disaster that was the latest SimCity?s launch last year. Nothing short of total embarrassment for EA, server problems made the game unplayable for people who purchased it upon its arrival on PC. When it arrived on Mac, the problems seemed to get even worse ? and none of EA?s promises to fix things seemed to make any difference. Fortunately, that?s a separate game entirely to SimCity 4, which first graced computers back in 2003. While it?s more than a decade old, however, it?s an absolute classic ? and looks particularly stunning when played on a 27-inch iMac. With the most massive cities of any SimCity game ever, SimCity 4 will wash the franchise?s bad taste out of your mouth, and remind you of why you fell in love with it to begin with. Read more at Cult of Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted April 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted April 10, 2014 Confusing title. SC4 has been on Mac since 2003, so I'm guessing Rush Hour is the only new addition here. Hardly a steal for an 11 year old game with an expansion just as old :laugh: Better late than never I guess. Edit: Actually DE was on Mac in 2004. What exactly is new about this? :huh: It's on MAS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I'm also confused, what is new about this? I have had SC4 on my mac for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted April 10, 2014 MVC Share Posted April 10, 2014 I've had a copy of SimCity 4: Rush Hour for Mac for years, but it was never updated for Intel Macs. Well, there was an update (I can't remember if it was official, or something someone else put together) but it was basically unplayable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perochan Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 maybe this is the new Simcity that released last year. who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 4 > 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 From what I understand, this is the Deluxe Edition being updated for current Macs and being released exclusively on the Mac App Store. Cult of Mac's article was very deceptive. My apologies for the confusion. I had no idea that SC4 had been released on the Mac before, so I took the article at face value. :( Polygon has a better article explaining what's going on: http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/10/5601692/simcity-4-deluxe-edition-re-released-digitally-via-mac-app-store The digital version of the Deluxe Edition includes new transportation, such as a ferry and monorail system, and has been updated to include recent bug fixes and performance enhancements. The game packages the core SimCity 4 experience with the SimCity 4: Rush Hour expansion pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 From what I understand, this is the Deluxe Edition being updated for current Macs and being released exclusively on the Mac App Store. Cult of Mac's article was very deceptive. My apologies for the confusion. I had no idea that SC4 had been released on the Mac before, so I took the article at face value. :( Polygon has a better article explaining what's going on: http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/10/5601692/simcity-4-deluxe-edition-re-released-digitally-via-mac-app-store The digital version of the Deluxe Edition includes new transportation, such as a ferry and monorail system, and has been updated to include recent bug fixes and performance enhancements. The game packages the core SimCity 4 experience with the SimCity 4: Rush Hour expansion pack. Further, Simcity 2013 has been available for Intel Macs for a bit; it lagged behind the PC launch by a month. (If you look at the Simcity thread in Computer Gaming, I've made several posts about cross-OS play, which is starting on one side, then picking up on the other - which you can't do with non-server-side saving. Further, the current Simcity, unlike SC4, uses all-platform licensing - identical to Steam, in other words; if you purchased for PC, the same license applies to OS X - and vice-versa. Yes - it includes the DLCs.) And that is WHY it's a "classic" - it literally IS the old-style Sim City 4. I don't knock it, as I still have SC4 for PC (specifically, the Deluxe version); however, Simcity 2013 is a different sort of challenge - if anything, it's tougher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 SimCity had a terrible release, I'll admit, but things have improved substantially with that game. Cult of Mac would have us believe it's still a terrible experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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