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SIMMARS
SimMars was a strategy game in development at Maxis around the same time as the release of the wildly popular Maxis game, The Sims. A trailer for the game was included on the SimCity 3000 CD. From the trailer, the premise of the game seemed to be a manned mission to the planet Mars, followed by a terraforming and colonization scenario, typical of the Maxis world-building game style. The game presumed to be an integration of previous Maxis titles presented in 3D, possibly including elements of SimEarth, SimLife, and SimCity.
As of May 12, 2000, Maxis has stated that "SimMars is on hold and we do not have staff at Maxis currently working on the game. With the phenomenal success of The Sims, we've decided to move resources to support that franchise as well as other titles that we haven't even announced yet." [1]
Many fans of SimCity 4 have decided to work together and create a similar mod known as SimMars. The mod was inspired by the failure of SimMars. The modders are based on the very sucessful SimCity 4 community known as Simtropolis.
Some elements of SimMars are used in the upcoming Maxis game Spore.
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