LGR - Cities XXL Review
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Huge cities are feasible, they run well even. That's a tough one for Cities Skylines, with all tiles unlocked and in use. In Cities XL you also get to interact / trade with your other cities. It pays off having a city generating tons of food, and one generating tons of industry, so your current 'capitol' city can be specialised in offices and elite housing and such which you can then ship out to your wonderfull snowy ski-resort town or caribean style tropical leisure city that you've once built, and even expand upon. Which is fun and rewarding throughout all the cities you once played with.
It's not a perfect game though, the amount of 'simish' is low (you don't get to control that much of your sims' lives as you would in another citybuilder which is both astrangeing and boresome over time but also allows you wider choices in city services, planning etc. - also I'm personally not that fond of The Sims nor City Societies etc, it has it quirks concerning large and neat layouts of roads and bridges and such, compared to Skylines, it is somewhat lacking in your choices of monorails ) but you get to build without puny constraints I see in the other choises of games. I found simcity maps WAY too small, cities skylines having a twirky user interface, paid DLC's, lower options concerning buildings free forming landscapes and the need to hack it for large buildinggrounds, those let me pass for it (I own all games, though my Cities XL is by far my prefered.
This is personal however, but Cities XL sure does have a fan with me. I'd like some not too big company to one dag start from scratch in a 64 bit and modern engine to continue this path Cities XL once started, oppossed to the two other concurrent franchises of modernday city builders. Today, the start of 2018, you purchase the game (Cities XL Platinum) for 10 bucks or euro's. Less on sale. This is including all DLC / software updates and thousands of (themed) buildings they ever implented throughout the years. You have thousands of good mods for free at your disposal. It is very much worth it if you like this genre. I bought the game for much much more, a couple of times, as indeed they would rerelease it again and again with hundreds of extra buildings in them, but not only are those times over, I still believe it was worth it to me, and only ten bucks now worth to you too. My two cents.
Date: 2022-04-14
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LukesterGaming
I've never really played these 'Cities' games before, I just prefer to stick to the SimCity games, although even then I haven't gotten my hands on and played the newest one of that yet, and was put off from originally buying it due to it's DRM 'Always Online' way of playing, of which that isn't really a problem for me, but I'd rather have my game saves/cities stored on my hard drive where I could play them anytime I want, rather than relying on a cloud service to be 'online' if I wanted to play the damn game! I know all of that was fixed though, and I think it's now an 'offline' game as such, so I'd be tempted to pick it up somewhere if the price is reasonable enough, given it's been out for at least a few years now already I think! I know it won't beat the original SimCity games though, or at least in terms of SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4, the ones I've spent so many hours playing throughout the course of my childhood, and yet I'd still like to put many many more hours into both those games when I get my hands on them too! Between that and digging out my collection of The Sims games, I would be looking at some more years of my life spent between all of them when I'm finally able to get back to playing them after so many years haha!
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I've never really played these 'Cities' games before, I just prefer to stick to the SimCity games, although even then I haven't gotten my hands on and played the newest one of that yet, and was put off from originally buying it due to it's DRM 'Always Online' way of playing, of which that isn't really a problem for me, but I'd rather have my game saves/cities stored on my hard drive where I could play them anytime I want, rather than relying on a cloud service to be 'online' if I wanted to play the damn game! I know all of that was fixed though, and I think it's now an 'offline' game as such, so I'd be tempted to pick it up somewhere if the price is reasonable enough, given it's been out for at least a few years now already I think! I know it won't beat the original SimCity games though, or at least in terms of SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4, the ones I've spent so many hours playing throughout the course of my childhood, and yet I'd still like to put many many more hours into both those games when I get my hands on them too! Between that and digging out my collection of The Sims games, I would be looking at some more years of my life spent between all of them when I'm finally able to get back to playing them after so many years haha!
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Remco
Cities XL, if I think I am right it's called, was one of my best alpha-mode experiences ever, when the game was just released for anyone who wanted to test it (so weird it was called alpha but oke, it was just a pure joy. Yes it was laggy, yes it crashed a lot, yes it had issues that you don't wanna talk about anymore because they were just to bad. But the moment, the last day the online mode was there, there was a special event going on. And everyone joined in, every player that where there from day one. And I never had so much fun playing a game as I had that moment. It was just amazing.
Then the actual game came out and I was fine with it, then it got better, and now we got Cities XXL. And must say, if Cities Skylines didn't work, I did play this game a LOT. I hadn't got the best of pc's so, now lucky I have but. The combination of the good music, the possibilities, the colors/looks, and everything, it was just loads of fun. Sure it had it's issues, a lot of them. But, yeah it was a perfect game when Cities Skylines didn't work on my pc. Now with Cities Skylines on, this game is like Simcity 2013, a bit, useless to still exist. But, I do still play both SOMETIMES.
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Cities XL, if I think I am right it's called, was one of my best alpha-mode experiences ever, when the game was just released for anyone who wanted to test it (so weird it was called alpha but oke, it was just a pure joy. Yes it was laggy, yes it crashed a lot, yes it had issues that you don't wanna talk about anymore because they were just to bad. But the moment, the last day the online mode was there, there was a special event going on. And everyone joined in, every player that where there from day one. And I never had so much fun playing a game as I had that moment. It was just amazing.
Then the actual game came out and I was fine with it, then it got better, and now we got Cities XXL. And must say, if Cities Skylines didn't work, I did play this game a LOT. I hadn't got the best of pc's so, now lucky I have but. The combination of the good music, the possibilities, the colors/looks, and everything, it was just loads of fun. Sure it had it's issues, a lot of them. But, yeah it was a perfect game when Cities Skylines didn't work on my pc. Now with Cities Skylines on, this game is like Simcity 2013, a bit, useless to still exist. But, I do still play both SOMETIMES.
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Deyvson
I liked the game, made many cities that did commerce with one another. But it was quite easy and without clear objective. Still it was quite enjoyable, the commerce mechanic was really fun and gave good reason to make multiple cities. Also, as we couldn't change terrain as in other similar games, we were forced to build beautiful cities, that took nature into account, instead of a featureless flat terrain. I think the most attractive part of the game was how beautiful the cities looked.
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I liked the game, made many cities that did commerce with one another. But it was quite easy and without clear objective. Still it was quite enjoyable, the commerce mechanic was really fun and gave good reason to make multiple cities. Also, as we couldn't change terrain as in other similar games, we were forced to build beautiful cities, that took nature into account, instead of a featureless flat terrain. I think the most attractive part of the game was how beautiful the cities looked.
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Skoots
As a new comer to the series, the extra content and most importantly addition to steam's workshop actually makes the game worth $40. Im not to sure how it feels as a player from previous iterations but the fact that the game runs without annoying crashes and bugs now gives the public all the more reason to try in. In my personal opinin, its like the game has been early access all these years and this is actually the first release.
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As a new comer to the series, the extra content and most importantly addition to steam's workshop actually makes the game worth $40. Im not to sure how it feels as a player from previous iterations but the fact that the game runs without annoying crashes and bugs now gives the public all the more reason to try in. In my personal opinin, its like the game has been early access all these years and this is actually the first release.
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Jaikie
I hate the cities xl series so much, they are all the same game. Even simcity has lost it's brilliance. cities skylines is one of only good city builders left. Tropico 4 and 5 are good also, but it is on a smaller scale and revolves more around staying in control of your island. Personally, I find it harder than most large scale city builders.
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I hate the cities xl series so much, they are all the same game. Even simcity has lost it's brilliance. cities skylines is one of only good city builders left. Tropico 4 and 5 are good also, but it is on a smaller scale and revolves more around staying in control of your island. Personally, I find it harder than most large scale city builders.
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Pieter
The problem with this game is that it lacks heart. There's basically ONE song in the entire soundtrack, and the streets are dead. Soccer stadiums never host any games and theres never more than three people on a city block at any given time, and they're only visible when you zoom all the way in. I'll pass on this update.
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The problem with this game is that it lacks heart. There's basically ONE song in the entire soundtrack, and the streets are dead. Soccer stadiums never host any games and theres never more than three people on a city block at any given time, and they're only visible when you zoom all the way in. I'll pass on this update.
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Vaibhav
This piece of shit company deserved what they got. For too long they were exploiting their fans due to lack of a proper modern city builder. Then came Cities Skylines and it wrecked their virtual monopoly and exposed them. Cities Skylines is incredible value for money and is actually a spiritual successor to SimCity 4
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This piece of shit company deserved what they got. For too long they were exploiting their fans due to lack of a proper modern city builder. Then came Cities Skylines and it wrecked their virtual monopoly and exposed them. Cities Skylines is incredible value for money and is actually a spiritual successor to SimCity 4
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techmouse1101
Cities XL is one of my favorite bad game series. So much ambition, undermined by only slightly too little skill.
Reminder: There is a parallel dimension where the Cities XL series went on to be THE city builder game series. Unmatched and unbeatable, it reigns supreme. Sadly, this is not that dimension.
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Cities XL is one of my favorite bad game series. So much ambition, undermined by only slightly too little skill.
Reminder: There is a parallel dimension where the Cities XL series went on to be THE city builder game series. Unmatched and unbeatable, it reigns supreme. Sadly, this is not that dimension.
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Jessie
What I like about Cities is yes, THEY dont change much and actually do improve over time. Sim city on the other hand sure improved graphics but everything else went to crap. Why imporove what is already great? add things people want and take away what they dont want. Cities does exactly what EA failed to do.
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What I like about Cities is yes, THEY dont change much and actually do improve over time. Sim city on the other hand sure improved graphics but everything else went to crap. Why imporove what is already great? add things people want and take away what they dont want. Cities does exactly what EA failed to do.
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