Sim City 2000 (USA)

SimCity 2000 is a city-buildingsimulationvideo game jointly developed by Will Wright and Fred Haslam of Maxis. It is the successor to SimCity Classic and was released for Apple Macintosh and MS-DOS personal computers in 1993,^[3] after which it was released on other platforms over the following years, such as the Sega Saturn and SNES game consoles in 1995 and the PlayStation in 1996.^[4]

Gameplay – Sim City 2000 (USA)

The unexpected and enduring success of the original SimCity, combined with the relative lack of success with other “Sim” titles, finally motivated the development of a sequel. SimCity 2000 was a major extension of the concept. It had a near-isometric dimetric view (similar to the earlier Maxis-published A-Train)^[6] instead of overhead, land could have different elevations, and underground layers were introduced for water pipes and subways.

Reception – Sim City 2000 (USA)

In the United States, SimCity 2000 was the ninth best-selling computer game between 1993 and 1999, selling 1.4 million units.^[23] During 1996 alone, it achieved sales of 500,000 copies.^[24] According to PC Data, SimCity 2000 SE was the United States’ 20th-best-selling computer game during the January–November 1998 period.^[25] According to Maxis’s Lucy Bradshaw, SimCity 2000 achieved global sales of 3.4 million units across all platforms by January 2002.^[26]

Critical reception

Publication	Score
AllGame	(PC)[28]  (MAC)[29]
MacUser	[27]

Computer Gaming World‘s reviewer, an author of a book on the first SimCity, wrote in 1994 that SimCity 2000 for Macintosh offered “plenty of new challenges”, fixed “virtually every criticism I leveled at the game” in the book, and “is without question a superior program”.