The demo can only be played for 30 minutes, and the city begins to self-destruct after 25 minutes. The Windows 95 demo version is fully playable, but doesn't allow loading or saving of cities, there are no scenarios, and only one disaster can be selected. The game can only be played for 20 minutes in the DOS shareware demo, and many items, including power plants, are unavailable. There are also a number of scenarios that can be played with specific goals to achieve. Your city has a credit rating and you can take out loans. New graphs allow you to see your city's life expectancy and education. In the future, massive self-contained cities called arcologies can be added that can hold up to 65 000 people. Some items don't become available until they are invented (unlike SimCity, there are no nuclear power plants in 1900). There is an underground view that lets you create water pipes and subways. Water pumps draw water, while water towers can hold excess water during wet months and supply water during dry months. There are a lot more types of power plant, there are highways and subways, you can build schools, universities, libraries, hospitals, prisons, military bases, bus stops and subway terminals. You can create connections to neighboring cities. The landscape has become three dimensional, allowing hills and valleys, and land can be raised or lowered. Whereas zones in SimCity had to be 3×3, 4×4, or 6×6, zones can be created with any dimensions in SimCity 2000, and you can specify light or heavy development. It is vastly more complex, but still very easy to play. SimCity 2000 is a huge upgrade over SimCity.

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