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Multi-tiered simulation: Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system.
Extensive local traffic simulation: Colossal Orders extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in a fully fleshed out and well-crafted transport systems.
Districts and Policies: Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.
Extensive modding support: Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import them into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating maintaining the a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience. From the makers of the Cities in Motion franchise, the game boasts a fully realized transport system. It also includes the ability to mod the game to suit your play style as a fine counter balance to the layered and challenging simulation. You’re only limited by your imagination, so take control and reach for the sky!
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System Requirements:
Supported OS: [Windows 7]
Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz
RAM: 6 GB RAM
Hard Disk: 4 GB
Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB RAM or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB RAM (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics)
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Even though CS:2 has been released, this game has many more mods available to it. In addition, CS:2 almost feels like a beta right now with the performance issues, AI issues, lackluster progression, and general incompleteness of the game.
I highly recommend this game if you want a city builder to play. At the time of this review, this is more of a realistic city builder than CS:2. Until they fix/improve the issues in the sequel, I'm sticking with this one.
Let me start by saying, I have found my way back home. The very last game I played like this was SimCity 4. To say I was a huge fan is an understatement. I was heartbroken when the series faded away and even more devastated when they released a new version last year. I never thought I'd find that kind of gaming satisfaction again. With that said, please know that Cities Skylines is not a SimCity clone. At least not to me. It has its own uniqueness that causes it to stand fully on its own.
***My only complaint is that "STEAM" thing... which I absolutely hate. If it wasn't for this, I would have rated the game a five. Personally, I prefer the option of buying a disk or downloading free of any other third-party software. THIS IS TERRIBLE IN A MAJOR TIME-CONSUMING KIND OF WAY. I could care less about other video games, advertisements, downloading other games, etc. and all the other crap that is thrown at you just just trying to get into STEAM for the first time, and install the game. Plus, I had so many problems installing the games AND very little help. STEAM will probably cause me never to buy another game again. Who knows what will happen to my software and saved games once they come out with a new version or some update. Probably won't be able to access it anymore... who knows. OKAY... enough about that..."
Aside from this, I had somewhat of a challenge learning how Cities Skylines works. This wasn't a result of the game but just the amount of time it took "me" to figure out how to play. But after a couple of days (which might be a long time to some people), I must say I have the basics in the bag. There are many cities to choose from -- ranging from islands to wooded areas. The flexibility in designing roads and highways is phenomenal. In fact, I found this part advanced but very easy to figure out. I can say the same thing about setting up power in the city as well. It is also easy to zoom, rotate or otherwise view your city in great, great detail. One of my favorite pass times is watching traffic flow freely through my city. When problems arise in the city, a little news flash pops up to tell you about and escort you to the source of the problem in your city if you choose.
Honestly, I don't know how anyone could give this game a bad rating unless they just don't like these kinds of simulations OR they found themselves frustrated with STEAM or other technical difficulties. I bought another game called Tropical 4 which I enjoy, but it isn't like this one. In fact, I would say that they are night and day. I also tried a series of games like "The Settlers," but none of them gave me the experience that Cities Skylines does. Of course, this game doesn't have dialogue like in my SimCity games back in the day -- but I can live with that. Plus, the graphics are breath taking. (I think I said that already.) Give it a try.
This is the type of game that I love! Strategy-based, but does require some real-time intervention & is an ever-evolving combination of creation & puzzle-solving.
The potential drawbacks/cautions: 1. This will suck up a LOT of time. I installed the game on a rainy Saturday afternoon, started playing/building my first city, and eventually looked down at my phone to see what time it was and realized I'd been playing for about 6 hours straight. Seriously. It's immersive and time will fly by. This isn't the type of game you can jump onto for 20 minutes and then move on to other things. 2. This may drive you to spend money on a new PC/hardware. I thought I had a decent laptop. And it worked just fine for about 12 hours of cumulative gameplay. But now my first city has grown large enough that the graphics card is maxed out, and the CPU isn't far behind. Every element of the city can be clicked on and you'll see tons of detail that is being tracked by the game. Example: every car on the roads can be clicked on, and you'll see details of the specific driver, it's origin, destination, and route. With thousands (even tens of thousands) of individual "cars" driving around, that's a lot of processing power being used. About to buy my first desktop PC in 15+ years so I can have sufficient hardware (and ability to upgrade components) to handle this game. 3. Mods: the open-source nature of this game means there are hundreds/thousands of mods that can be obtained - some for a fee, most for free. Of course each additional mod requires more computing power, and there's the possibility that some mods won't play well with each other. So far I've only purchased the base game, but there are a few of the expansion packs that I'll probably end up buying.
First off, this game was first designed as a traffic simulator game. So, be sure to look at the traffic while in the game.
Pros: - Works on Steam - Beautiful graphics by default - Great interface - Able to buy land plots around you
Cons: - If you are playing this on a laptop with a trackpad, you should invest in a mouse. It will help a lot when placing roads. - When I started my first city, my power grid was working fine but then it started glitching out. It said my citizens didn't have power when it showed they did. I haven't ran into this problem since.
This game is what Simcity 5 should have been and it is definitely worth the $30 if you are into these types of games. I didn't have any problems downloading this through steam and I love having it always available whether I switch to my laptop or to my desktop.
Great job to the people who developed Skylines, you earned my 5 stars.