Virtual City [Game Download]

Product Details

Virtual City [Game Download] From G5 Entertainment AB List Price: $6.99 Price: $6.95 Digital media products such as Amazon MP3s, Amazon Video On Demand video downloads, Kindle content and Amazon Shorts cannot be purchased on aStore. If you would like to buy this item, click here to go to Amazon. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital Services Inc 2 new or used available from $6.95 Average customer review:

Product Description

Create a residential paradise or an industrial center in this fun and exciting simulation game! Construct gorgeous houses and industrial buildings as you produce goods and deliver them to the shopping malls. Make the city a cleaner place by recycling garbage, adding hospitals and fire stations, and upgrading building. Deal with economic downturn and natural disasters. Build the city of your dreams today!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65 in Digital Video Games
• Brand: G5 Entertainment AB
• Model: 1815
• Released on: 2009-12-30
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: Download

Features

• 50 Challenging Levels In 5 Settings.
• More Than 50 Types Of Buildings.
• Earn 16 Special Achievements.
• Unlock Upgrades And New Buildings.

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Customer Reviews

Lots of contents and replay value This game's a gem! Without getting too complicated, I think it offers a bit more depth and contents than a lot of other casual games in this genre. And something else I find rare and precious: replay value! If I wanted to make a comparison, I'd say the mechanics of Virtual City remind me most of Transport Tycoon (in a much, much simplified way). Although you do get to build your little city, it's not so much a building game as it is a transportation and resource-management game. There are lots of things you can build in the game though: roads, houses, decorations, bus stations, utility buildings (fire station, hospital, tech stations, recycling drop spots...) and 7 whole production chains (i.e. from wheat to pies). You can even modify the existing layout of a map (to a certain extent) by bulldozing existing roads and wooded areas, then rebuild it differently. The buildings and vehicles' graphics change when we upgrade them, which is much nicer than just having a certain amount of stars next to them. At the start of each level, you are given a set of goals to fulfill. The game consists mostly in bringing the required goods to the appropriate buildings (or neighboring cities), which in turn will produce another type of goods needed by another building, or fulfill a goal. The goals are varied: goods deliveries, population amount and/or happiness, income, special buildings to be built, etc. The game's very relaxed. You can try to beat the "Expert" time if you want, but you won't be penalized in any way if you don't complete a level within that time frame -- you can still come back to a particular level any time to play it again and try to beat the timer if you feel like it. So, in this manner, the game is not at all stressful, and not even "clicky". You can just relax, enjoy the beautiful graphics and have fun building up your city and transportation network. Between levels (50 in all!), new buildings, upgrades, and other types of improvements (i.e. a hot air balloon to be launched from the plaza) are unlocked for you to purchase. The campaign game plays on various maps in 5 different locations, many of which large enough to be scrollable. Now, one of the most important thing to me: replay value. For one thing, there's already replay value in the way that you can replay any level individually as I mentioned above, whether you want to improve your score or beat the timer or just try a different city layout. But also, every time you finish all the levels in a particular location, it opens a very large Sandbox map in that location where you can pretty much do whatever you want. Endless fun! :) Anyway, I really enjoy this game. It's relaxing, very pretty, very entertaining, and I can tell I'll be playing it for a long time without getting tired of it. Well worth the small price tag for sure! I've played Virtual City on Vista 32-bit, and currently playing it on Windows 7 64-bit. Works fine with either operating system. fun game, good escape This game has BEAUTIFUL scenery, very lifelike or realistic, and is a very pleasant escape. There are various challenging levels to complete, which unlocks various business and building upgrades for the next level. Each level that you complete unlocks the next city/state & you also get more freedom to move around the screen. In Sandbox mode you can even design a city completely to your own specifications, placing buildings and roads where you want them rather than where the game wants them. In Sandbox mode you are also untimed. In the timed mode, however, you are given a certain amount of funds to start building with and you have to increase your income and build the city. There are specific goals to meet at each level, however, and only by completing them all can you finish the level. The game goes through various states and cities in each, and there is even a unique California level in which you have to restore a town hit by an earthquake and forestfire. This game would be an excellant game for a school teacher to have for his/her students to teach them ECONOMICS! It demonstrates the interdependency of all kinds of businesses, and how the economics of one affects the others. An excellant and fun teaching tool in this regard. Fun little game! As I've grown older, the games have gotten more complex. I love to play games (esp. "sim city" type games), but I work a lot and just don't have the time to dedicate to learning everything about a new game. I want a game that is more complex than those silly little puzzle games, but still something I can jump into for an hour or two and feel like I accomplished something and had a good time. This game certainly fits that bill! I've already found myself playing it for 4-5 hours and I'm not even half way through the game yet. In that regard alone, the value of the game has already been paid (seven bucks for five hours of entertainment -- I'll take it!). I run dual monitors at 2560x1600 -- a lot of these cheaper games don't run well at that resolution. This game handles it just fine, (although I wish it would show up in wide-screen mode instead of standard-width), and even building a big complex city in sandbox mode, there's no noticeable lag. I wish the game had the ability to rotate the screen. Sometimes you end up with a small house stuck behind a large building and it's impossible to click on. Also, selecting a house for garbage pickup when it's on the top right-hand side of the screen can be a pain. Other than those two small downsides, this is a game that has already paid for itself, and since it runs great on Windows 7, I know I'll get years of enjoyment out of it when I want to play a city builder for an hour or two.