Dousing fires with the water bucket can damage your helicopter if you get too close - an add-on water cannon makes these missions much easier. For many rescues you'll need to equip your helicopter with a rescue harness so you can snatch Sims from their precarious perches on overturned boats, building roofs, and even speeding trains. With this equipment you're set to tackle most basic missions, but more complicated assignments will require upgrades. The default helicopter comes equipped with a megaphone and water bucket and can carry two passengers. You will also be called on for rescue missions, firefighting, tracking criminals, and transporting Sims from one place to another. There are several types of missions the most common is a traffic jam where you have to fly overhead and use your megaphone to tell the cars to move along. Most of your time in _SimCopter will be spent taking care of calls from your dispatcher. To take off you simply press one button - the engines fire up and the helicopter gains altitude. The emphasis is on fun, not realistic helicopter flight simulation, so the flight controls are a simple forward/backward/left/right/up/down combination. SimCopter's _interface is easy to learn and use. Complete your missions and reap your rewards: extra equipment, a snazzier helicopter, and a tougher assignment.
There are fires to fight, Sims to rescue, criminals to track, and traffic to un-jam. SimCopter includes 30 pre-built cities to explore and allows you to import any SimCity 2000 city, but exploring the city is only a small part - these urban skies aren't friendly. SimCopter puts you inside the city, not as Mayor, but as the pilot of a helicopter charged with keeping the city safe. Over 5 million fans have enjoyed the thrill of controlling the lives of their SimCitizens or creating an exact replica of their hometown the only thing missing was the ability to explore their masterpieces. SimCity and SimCity 2000 have long been considered the best simulation games available.