14 DAY TRIAL // Aspyr Media is offering SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition for OS X gamers exclusively through the Mac App Store featuring the base game, the Rush Hour expansion pack, and the exclusive Mac “Custom Tunes” feature that allows you to play your iTunes music in-game.
The all-new SimCity lets players sculpt mountains, dig riverbeds, seed forests, and do all the neat metropolis stuff they could do before and see the impact of their decisions immediately.
“But while each click of the mouse can create, it has equal capacity to destroy. Capping an erupting volcano might save your city, or it might reroute lava down busy city streets,” says Aspyr.
“Sending police to quell a riot might calm down the crowd, or it might spur even further anarchy. With every decision you make, your city and your Sims will respond – for better or for worse. It’s up to you to be their guide.”
The Deluxe Edition costs only $19.99 / €17.99 and includes both the original SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack, which features more transportation options and two bonus disasters. Mac players also have an exclusive “Custom Tunes” option to play their iTunes music in the game.
Any decently-specced Mac sold in the last two years should cope with the hardware demands of SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, but just to be sure your Mac can handle the workload, visit GameAgent.com and let the MacMatch feature do a system check for you.
The base requirements are 2.2 GHz CPU Speed, 4 GB RAM, 2 GB free disk space, ATI Radeon HD 3870 / NVidia GeForce 8800 / Intel HD 3000 graphics with 256 MB VRAM.
Supported video cards include NVIDIA GeForce® 8800, 9400, 9600, GT 120, 320M, 330M, 640M, 650M, 660M, 675MX, 680MX, 750M, 755M, 775M, and 780M; ATI Radeon HD 3870, HD 4670, HD 4850, HD 5670, HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 5870, HD 6630, HD 6490, HD 6750, HD 6770, HD 6970, FirePro D300, D500, and D700; Intel HD Graphics 3000, 4000, 5000, Iris, and Iris Pro.
Some video chipsets are unsupported, including ATI RADEON HD 2400, 2600, NVIDIA 8600m, Intel Integrated GMA 950, and Intel Integrated x3100. As it is usual with Aspyr-ported Mac games, SimCity 4 Deluxe doesn’t go on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (CaseSensitive).
Players who incur issues with the game are told to head over to support.aspyr.com. The game is compatible with OS X 10.8.5 or later.