Its a Simulated World: Part Two Valley24.com has part Two of their Its a Simulated World writeup. In this article they discuss the worst of the Sims series, as well as the copycats that tried to imitate the sucess of Maxis. I strongly have to disagree with most of the games on the list, especially SimCity 3000 and Animal CrossingBut I do agree with The Sims Online (failure from a business standpoint) and Singles (which just looks plain awful).SimCity 3000 (1999) Simcity 3000 certainly isnt a bad game; but, as a sequel to SimCity 2000, it falls a little short. Essentially, 3000 is little more than a gussied-up version of 2000 with a handful of new featureswhich is fine for anyone who never played 2000. But if you happened to play 2000 to death, there really wasnt much new fun to be had here. To be fair, the game could have been much worse; Maxis originally conceived 3000 as being in 3D, but dropped this idea when they realized that rendering really brown rooms in Quake was the only 3D late-90s PCs could do. Read Its a Simulated World: Part Two article
