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SimCity 4 & Rush Hour Expansion
System: PC
Genre: City-Building
Year: 2004
Rank last year: 6 (=)
This high up in the list, every game is bound to be the very best in it's genre. SimCity 4 is no different. This is the best city-building game ever created, and the best in the broader construction & management genre. The game puts all newer games of it's sort, and especially the games that carried on the SimCity name, to shame. It's no wonder why they didn't dare to name a game 'SimCity 5'.
It's also one of the games I played most of all times. It's endless sandbox and mod-friendly nature, of which the community is still very active, ensure the player experiences endless replayability. I made entire nations in this game. The region mode in which you can do this (and basically functions as the game's main menu) is one of the best features as well. Building a city is more challenging and more realistic than ever before, which is a good thing, because the end-result is usually something to be proud of.
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