SimCity 4: Rush Hour
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| Developer(s) | Maxis |
| Publisher(s) |
Electronic Arts (Windows) Aspyr Media (Mac) |
| Designer(s) | Will Wright |
| Composer(s) |
Jerry Martin Andy Brick The Humble Brothers |
| Series | SimCity |
| Platform(s) | Windows Mac OS X |
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| Genre(s) |
Simulation City-building game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
SimCity 4: Rush Hour is the expansion pack for SimCity 4 created by EA Games and Maxis, where the player builds a city from scratch.
When starting a new city, there are three different difficulty levels, each with a different amount of starting money, as opposed to the single amount in the original SimCity 4. New regions are also included, such as New York and San Francisco.
Instead of the single tutorial, Rush Hour includes five separate tutorials in order to help players learn the controls for the game. It includes a "Getting Started" tutorial that tells the player the basic zoning and construction tools, a "Terraforming" tutorial that instructs the player on the use of the terraforming tools in god mode, a "Making Money" tutorial that helps players learn how to manage their budget, a "Big City" tutorial that shows how to improve the desirability and land value in a large city, and finally a "Rush Hour" tutorial that shows the player how to use all the new tools that were added with the expansion pack.
U-Drive-It is a new add-on to Rush Hour, a mode where players can take control of cars, planes, boats and many other forms of transportation and drive them around the city. There are two modes of driving: Scenario Mode, where the player has a limited amount of time to complete a mission and win money or prizes, or Free Drive, that allows the player to drive freely.
If the vehicle sustains excessive damage (either by crashing into other vehicles or traversing into water), it will burst into flames and subsequently explode. This is shown by a colored diamond above the vehicle, in-game called a "plumbob" (much like the ones in The Sims) which can turn from green to red to represent the vehicle's current state.
Some vehicles have certain individual features, such as a police siren on police cars or the capacity to damage sections of the city with munitions from vehicles such as tanks, helicopters and jets. Also, some boats may cast fish nets or tug other boats to safety.
GameSpot has related U-Drive-It to Streets of SimCity, and indicated the feature including an enhanced physics model partially based on that of SimCopter. However, while Streets of SimCity and SimCopter can alternate between a first- and third-person view, U-Drive-It is restricted to third-person.
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