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Before now, however, Maxis didn't really acknowledge, well, any of it. Due to a lack of official tools, they're not particularly elaborate, but people have managed to tinker around under the simplified simulation's hunkered down hood.

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It's a few less elements to worry about while managing the city, sure, but it does affect a buying decision if fans of the original SimCity 2000 are looking for a direct portable conversion of one of their favorite games.Believe it or not - despite EA and Maxis' insistence on constant connection - SimCity has mods. And the land masses have been completely flattened so players can no longer work on rising hills or falling basins. Players can't create subways or manage underground sewer systems, for example. It's not clear whether it was a technical problem or a design decision to make the game less cluttered, but a few elements were removed from the original's gameplay. And it's not exactly a perfect port, either.

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But this tweak in interface can't hide the fact that the sluggish processing and screen update means that it's just not possible to play a quick and clean round of SimCity 2000.

The developers make things just a little more intuitive by allowing players to toggle to the menu and back with a shoulder button, which definitely cleans things up, if just a little bit. Even when there's not much action going on, trying to move the cursor around the isometric area is a choppy, sluggish mess. The dynamic design is most likely to blame since the game's constantly on the move, calculating all sorts of elements and changing the on-screen graphics and tile-sets to visualize these changes, the gameplay is, for lack of a better word, chuggy. When the game was first conceived on the PC, the game pushed the hardware well beyond what the processor could comfortably handle, and that feeling has been unintentionally converted over to the Game Boy Advance. Even with that said and known, the port isn't entirely a smooth conversion. The team produced a game that looks and plays similarly to the original PC design, working with the GBA's system limitations to get the game to run on the handheld system.

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Full Fat is the development team behind the game, a studio that's no stranger to the Game Boy Advance market with games such as Freekstyle and the Dave Mirra series under its belt. The skill comes from being able to spot problem areas and resolve them quickly and efficiently. If crime becomes a problem, plop a police station in a strategic location to remove that from the area. It's your job to ensure a steady growth by making the city work.

Tiny houses become apartments, small businesses become skyscrapers, roads become highways. By designating zones (residential, commercial, and industrial), and supplying power to these zones you make your city flourish with citizens, and the better you lay out your town and manage the incoming and outgoing resources, the more visual your city starts to become. Though your role in SimCity 2000 is 'mayor' of a city, you're more godlike in power since the task is to build a civilization from pretty much nothing but a flat piece of land.