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I always wished that someone made a fusion between Sim City and Red Alert where you also had to defend your city.

by hello_there 12y ago

yaks_hairbrush 12y ago
There's the Caesar & Pharaoh series which does something along those lines, albeit with ancient cities.
- yen223 12y ago
  Don't forget Zeus, which is the best in the series in my humble opinion!
KhalilK 12y ago
Well there was Streets of Sim City[0] where you could take any of your Sim City 2000 cities, and turn it into a vehicular racing and combat playground. Way fun at the time! 0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity
- diltonm 12y ago
  Loved that game, it was for me like a light hearted version of GTA without all the dark overtones. That's really what would make SimCity a game I would have kept upgrading to; that and support for Linux. Their main page says PC/Mac. So PC means Personal Computer, wonder if my PC running Ubuntu counts? I'm guessing no. I'd have kept upgrading the BattleField games too but EA seems to not be interested in this.
- Redoubts 12y ago
  SimCopter was pretty fun too, but game was more about Commercial missions and civil protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter
  - wlievens 12y ago
    The thing I remember most about that game is dropping wounded passengers because my heli couldn't keep the load up in a storm :-)
  - HCIdivision17 12y ago
    I loved the in-game radio and the enormous number of goofy/awful commercials. It was a huge amount of fun to build a city in SC2K or SCURK, fly through it running missions, and then burn it to the ground with an Apache "fighting crime" (aka clearing traffic jams the easy way).
acr3 12y ago
Anno 2070 might fit the bill.
tpg 12y ago
Take a look at Factorio. It's not perfectly what you're looking for, but the state of mind that it puts me in is right in between starcraft and sim city.
doodpants 12y ago
Have you tried Stronghold? It's like SimCity in a medieval setting, though with much finer-grained control on what you build where (placing specific buildings and laying out walls, rather than allocating general "zones"), and in most scenarios you need to build troops to defend against periodic attacks from enemy armies. ETA GOG link: http://www.gog.com/game/stronghold http://www.gog.com/game/stronghold

I always wished that someone made a fusion between Sim City and Red Alert where you also had to defend your city.

yaks_hairbrush 12y ago

There's the Caesar & Pharaoh series which does something along those lines, albeit with ancient cities.

yen223 12y ago
Don't forget Zeus, which is the best in the series in my humble opinion!

KhalilK 12y ago

Well there was Streets of Sim City[0] where you could take any of your Sim City 2000 cities, and turn it into a vehicular racing and combat playground. Way fun at the time! 0.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_SimCity

diltonm 12y ago
Loved that game, it was for me like a light hearted version of GTA without all the dark overtones. That's really what would make SimCity a game I would have kept upgrading to; that and support for Linux. Their main page says PC/Mac. So PC means Personal Computer, wonder if my PC running Ubuntu counts? I'm guessing no. I'd have kept upgrading the BattleField games too but EA seems to not be interested in this.
Redoubts 12y ago
SimCopter was pretty fun too, but game was more about Commercial missions and civil protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter
- wlievens 12y ago
  The thing I remember most about that game is dropping wounded passengers because my heli couldn't keep the load up in a storm :-)
- HCIdivision17 12y ago
  I loved the in-game radio and the enormous number of goofy/awful commercials. It was a huge amount of fun to build a city in SC2K or SCURK, fly through it running missions, and then burn it to the ground with an Apache "fighting crime" (aka clearing traffic jams the easy way).

acr3 12y ago

Anno 2070 might fit the bill.

tpg 12y ago

Take a look at Factorio. It's not perfectly what you're looking for, but the state of mind that it puts me in is right in between starcraft and sim city.

doodpants 12y ago

Have you tried Stronghold? It's like SimCity in a medieval setting, though with much finer-grained control on what you build where (placing specific buildings and laying out walls, rather than allocating general "zones"), and in most scenarios you need to build troops to defend against periodic attacks from enemy armies. ETA GOG link: http://www.gog.com/game/stronghold http://www.gog.com/game/stronghold