Most terraforming tools are disabled after the city is named and founded.

SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game.

SimCity 4: Deluxe Edition contained the original game and Rush Hour combined as a single product.

The game allows players to create a region of land by terraforming, and then to design and build a settlement which can grow into a city.

Players can zone different areas of land as commercial, industrial, or residential development, as well as build and maintain public services, transport and utilities.

For the success of a city, players must manage its finances, environment, and quality of life for its residents.

SimCity 4 introduces night and day cycles and other special effects for the first time in the SimCity series.

External tools such as the Building Architect Tool (BAT) allow custom third-party buildings and content to be added to the gameplay.

SimCity 4 was praised for being the second game in the SimCity series to primarily use a 3D engine to render its graphics, the first being SimCity 64 for the discontinued Nintendo 64DD.

However, it was criticized for its difficulty and its demands on computer performance.

Gameplay Regional gameplay As with previous SimCity titles, SimCity 4 places players in the role of a mayor, tasked with populating and developing tracts of lands into cities, while fulfilling the needs of fellow Sims that live in the cities.

Cities are now located in regions that are divided into segments, each of which can be developed.

The player has the option of starting the city in a segment of any of three area sizes.

In real measurements, the smallest has a length of one kilometer on a side, and the largest has a length of four kilometers on a side.dead link The size of a region and its layout of segments can be changed in a bitmap file provided for each region.

Showhide text Neighbor cities play a larger role than in the previous versions of the game.

For example, neighbor deals can be established, where a city can exchange resources such as water, electricity and garbage disposal with other cities for money.

Players may develop several inter-dependent cities at the same time, eventually populating the entire region.

Game modes Upon selecting a specific segment in a region, gameplay is divided into three modes: god mode, mayor mode, and MySim mode.

Mayor and MySim modes become available after establishing a city.

The god mode is available before establishing a city, as well as after, but with fewer functions.

The unavailable functions can be re-activated by obliterating the city.

God mode The first mode is god mode, which allows players to design or terraform a selected tract of land where the city will be built.

God mode also allows players to trigger disasters, including tornadoes and earthquakes among several others.

Players can select an area where a disaster will occur and even control the direction of certain disasters.

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