Oh Tess. It's a game where you build cities. You shall put out areas for people to live and work, pipelines, eletricity, power, schools, trains, buses..... all that you can find in a city... or almost. In the same time you need to get more money to further develope the city. Simcity history you can read more about at http://simcity3000unlimited.ea.com/us/guide/ There you find the history. Also browse around here and look at the screen chots of what you can do in Sim City4. In that you can also tkae your sims, yes, and let them move into your cities. You are the mayor. There's lots and lots of stuff to do in those games. If you like to create and build, solve problems and construct things... Sim City is the right games. :classic: For now - SimCity 3000Unlimited has gone down in price. I simply MUST take time to play it and pick up that game. I have the old Sim City Classic and Sim City 2000, wich were for older computers. Lol Tess. I'm pretty badly hooked on that game. And so is Sam. Why not pay his site a visit. He has a nice collection of screeenshots from Sim City 4 there to look at. It's a pure Sim City dansite. And there are several posts around here with shots. :classic: