SimCopter is a light helicopter flying simulator closely related to Sim City 2000. The player is a rookie helicopter pilot that must make his living by transporting passengers and help the city authority in several tasks, including rescuing sims from fires and boat accidents, divert cars from traffic jams, aid on putting out fires and arresting criminals, controlling riots and MEDEVAC injured sims to nearby hospitals.
There are two game modes: Career makes the player jump from city to city, while the Free mode allows to play on any city, as well as any city created in Sim City 2000.
SimCopter marked the dawn of a new game style in Sim games. Instead of controlling an area you are now in control of one helicopter undergoing missions, drifting through cities and protecting the civilians down below. Career mode consisted of travelling through cities completing missions and unlocking new helicopters. However the free mode was more popular and extremely clever for its time, it consisted of maps from SimCity 2000. Players got the chance to fly around cities they had made and "watch it come to life" right below them, not only this but whilst playing they could listen to radio stations, and an drive in movie theatre was also present in the game and with a little tweaking players could add their own movies!! SimCopter was very popular with the critics and the public. Although SimCopter displayed great new 3D technology it wasn't the best of it's time, the finished game consisted of both a 2D Sprites and 3D Rendering. Those who own SimCity 4 might recognise this as the first style of U-Drive-It missions in a Sim Game
Released in 1996 the game was available on Windows 95/98.
