June 27, 2008
The SimCity Box Hits Store
Shelves Today in North America
Five Of The Most Innovative PC
City-Building Games Now Available For The Value Price of MSRP $39.99
The Sims, an Electronic Arts Inc.
Label, today announced that The SimCity Box for the PC is on store shelves in
the US and Canada. For the value price of MSRP $39.99, The SimCity Box offers
five city-building games in one package that individually would cost more than
MSRP $100.00. The titles from the award-winning franchise included in The
SimCity Box are SimCity Societies, SimCity Societies Destinations expansion
pack, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour expansion pack and The Sims Carnival
SnapCity. Also included, as a special bonus, is a trial version of the Spore
Creature Creator.
“For nearly 20 years, SimCity has
made building, managing and sometimes destroying cities a fun, cultural
phenomenon,” said Rod Humble, Head of Studio for The Sims. “By offering The
SimCity Box at such an extraordinary value, we give current fans and an entirely
new generation of players countless hours of city-building exploration,
strategic challenge and fun. This is certainly the greatest value SimCity has
ever brought to players.”
What’s in The SimCity Box:
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SimCity Societies: Players
construct not only the cities they desire, but mold their cultures, societal
tendencies and environments as well. With more than 500 buildings and
decorative objects to place, the possibilities are almost limitless as players
can build artistic cities, authoritarian dictatorships, spiritual communities
and many more. An accessible, innovative and versatile city-builder, the game
lets players create the city of their dreams, or their nightmares. Included in
The SimCity Box is the original SimCity Societies game along with all the
subsequent game updates, which have added new strategic modes, three new
exotic disasters (UFO invasion, giant robot attack and a massive
fire-breathing monster), new crises, new user interface functions, new
buildings and much more. Even more free content and features are being planned
for future updates. -
SimCity Societies Destinations
expansion pack: Enhance the SimCity Societies experience by providing all the
tools players need to create an entire city based on attractions and amenities
that visitors love. The expansion pack allows players to control more than 100
new buildings to create their customized destinations including sprawling
theme parks, tropical beach resorts, and country hiking trails. Featuring an
enhanced map generator, players can now identify each city’s opportunity for
diversion and the city can capitalize on that draw. -
SimCity 4: Right from the start in
SimCity 4, players will experience new God-like powers of creation as they lay
the groundwork for their cities by molding mountains, carving valleys, seeding
forests and laying rivers. With these new landscape creation features, players
can now construct the most realistic metropolis imaginable. -
SimCity 4 Rush Hour expansion
pack: Take control of the city’s transportation with a wide variety of new
options such as the elevated train networks of Chicago, the wide-avenues of
New York, or the one-way streets of San Francisco. Players can develop a
seamless mass-transit system including monorail, subway, or even a scenic
ferry service that connects to a greater regional travel network. With all-new
problem-solving maps and tracking tools, players can see the pulsing flow of
traffic, map out the most efficient routes, and quickly get their Sims from
one city to another. -
The Sims Carnival SnapCity: A
unique city-building simulation game with a puzzling twist that is both
strategic and accessible. In this fun, open-ended gameplay experience
challenges players to position falling, colored blocks in just the right
places to build the best possible cities. Featuring an array of industrial,
commercial and residential neighborhoods, it’s never the same city twice! The
fun never stops as the player must save this city from natural disasters,
man-made catastrophes, and even out-of-this-world alien attacks! Players can
also pick-up-and-play by jumping into 25 unique existing neighborhood levels.
