Others say...

"SimCity4 on Intel Macs?"
A great educational and experimental game! Recommended for everyone! Kids will learn about how government and economy work! Adults will be frustrated that their brilliant strategies in SimCity can't be implemented into the real world! If you're wondering if you should buy it, do it!

For those who have Intel Macs... Does SimCity 4 for Mac work on the new processors?

"fun, but unplayable"
This game was a blast at first, and being a big fan of the previous Sim City games I was really impressed with the content. And then my city grew and the game got slower. And slower. By the time I hit 150,000 citizens I had to turn down all of the graphics to the bare minimum just to get the game to do anything. And then I had to turn the sound off because it was irritating to hear the helicopters over the city batting away endlessly (I think it's an unfixed glitch.) And as I neared 200,000 citizens I gave up. The game had bogged down to a freeze-frame that changes every ten seconds. Yay!
Now I'm on a brand new iMac (intel-based) and didn't think it'd have trouble like this, but something must have gone wrong in the crossover from PC to Mac to Intel-Mac, because this game is pretty much worthless to me at this point. And that makes me sad, because it was fun for a few hours. Even after searching and digging for patches (which are not easy to find and the game's website/help is not set up well either) it still stinks.

I'll give it two stars for potential, but if you're on a new iMac don't bother with this one.

"This Game is Awful on Mac Platform"
I was ripped off when I purchased this game. IT WILL NOT WORK properly on a standard iMac Pro OS X platform. I contacted customer service at Aspyr and they said, "The game was designed for the Power PC processor and doesn't get along with the Intel processor very well. It's an older title. Sorry."

Save your money. Do not buy this game!

"Nice Game...Not as nice as Windows version..."
I think it's great that SimCity 4 is available for the Macintosh operating system. The only problem is it doesn't have half as many features as the Windows version. No building editor, no nothing. You also do not gain access to the EA website which is half the fun of the entire game! Being able to download new buildings and create maps from real world terrain! Not only that but the price sucks. One half the features for double the price. Typical.

"doesn't work on Mac OS 10.4+"
I loved this game; completely engrossing... That is until my Tiger system was updated to 10.4. It hasn't worked since. It is now so slow as to be unplayable. It takes ages for even a small stretch of a 2 lane road to render. I've written both Apple and Aspyr about the problem but it was never resolved. Aspyr said something to the effect that "Oh well, this has been a problem with OS10.4s." I hold on to it in hopes that someday someone will fix the bug. If your OS is 10.4 or above, don't buy it!