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Saturday, February 23, 2008

«Sim Copter»

I was flying a helicopter in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and it reminded me of an old game that I always loved to play; Sim Copter.

I really wish they'd make a sequel; Sim Copter 2. I stopped playing Sim Copter because the graphics rapidly became outdated and it was unstable in newer versions of Windows. What I liked most about it was that I could build a city in Sim City 2000 and then fly in it and do missions in Sim Copter. A sequel could use cities from Sim City 4 or Sim City Societies.

I remember a specific city I had made just for Sim Copter. It was a city built inside a large impact crater. The airport itself, along with a military base were outside the crater. I had quite a bit of fun with that city.

Here's the alien picture you see at the end of the game in career mode:
Sim Copter ending credits aliens.
There was also some funny dialogue between the aliens that broke the fourth wall if you waited long enough. I can't seem to find the exact text anywhere though.

3 comments:

  1. I've always wondered if there was
    some way to convert Sim City 4
    cities to Sim2000 files and /then/
    play them in Simcopter. The long
    way around I know but I'm not
    holding my breath for Simcopter 2.

    >.<

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  2. @ Anonymous (#1): Unfortunately, no. You'd have to use the old SimCity Urban Renewal Kit (SCURK) to manually re-build your Sim City 4 city as a Sim City 2000 city.

    However, I don't think there's going to be a Sim Copter 2. The first one didn't really go over too well with the majority of people for some reason.

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  3. There are several reasons SimCopter didn't do very well. First and foremost, gameplay got very boring very fast. It's a shame too because there's a lot that could have been done to make it a more fun game to play.

    But the biggest reason it didn't do well? The graphics were utterly abysmal even for its time. Couple that with crash bugs and it left a lot of room for improvement. Really I was surprised that Maxis ever released SimCopter in the state that it was in.

    Oh well. I still enjoyed the game either way and always wished a new version would come out.

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