Comments on: REVIEW Cities XL

By: James

James — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:09:44 +0000

Thanks Jorge, good insight. I’m definitely going to give this a look, especially since there appears to be a demo.

The game looks gorgeous from the screens…

By: Jorge Figueiredo

Jorge Figueiredo — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:35:01 +0000

Hi James,

Hmmm. This is a tough call. In some ways I enjoyed Simcity 3000 more than Simcity 4. It’s one of my problems with the series – the minor changes that made no sense.

That being said, Cities XL is like a straight-up Simcity 4 with more options.

Cities XL is certainly more about the building than the destroying. I don’t recall any natural disasters when I was playing. Traffic jams were the worst I got (because after having had so many natural disasters in the Sim series I was well prepared).

If you’re worried about things to keep you busy – don’t worry. Cities XL will certainly do that. You’ll be surprised how quickly you’ll forget about the negative impacts from the old city games in the face of trying to perfect your metropolis!

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:40:56 +0000

Thanks for this Jorge.

If you had to compare it to one of the SimCity games (in terms of gameplay), which one would be the best fit? Does it have anything similar to the silly SimCity 4 side missions, or is it more of a straight-up sim like the earlier entries in the SimCity series?

Basically, I want to know if there’s any lunacy.