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post #1 of 5
9/2/09 at 1:28pm
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So: I like them city building games. SimCity 2000 is the gold standard, but 3000 and 4 have their own set of charms, too. I pretty much ignored Societies entirely. I'm just now finding out about a 2006 game called City Life, which looks like a slightly bland, 3D-ized version of SimCity 4. Reviews for this were surprisingly positive.

Anyway, Cities XL, the sequel to City Life, comes out in October. Other than a tiny sidebar article on IGN, I haven't heard much about this game, but it looks interesting. The game's website shows off some neat videos, but doesn't inspire too much confidence. It reads like it was translated from Japanese into English by a Patapon.

Is anyone here familiar with the series (or following this game at all)?
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post #2 of 5
9/2/09 at 1:31pm
Is this the one that's like the SimCity MMO? Or is this more of a traditional city sim?

I wanted to love SimCity 4, but it just became way too achingly complex for me to deal with. Every town I created eventually turned into Biff Tannen's alternate 1985 Hill Valley.
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post #3 of 5
9/2/09 at 1:40pm
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Hahaha, I remember you saying the exact same Biff Tannen thing years ago in another sim city thread, right down to the word. Maxis released a patch that supposedly fixed a lot of the Tannenizing, but it didn't work for me. My cities instantly turned brown after hitting around 500,000 people.

It's supposedly a MMO-persistent-world/single-player-traditional-sim hybrid. It sounds like you can create your own cities and tinker like a hermit, or link up with other player cities on a planet via resource and blueprint trading.
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post #4 of 5
9/2/09 at 1:44pm
I say that a lot. It's one of my favorite things to say.
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post #5 of 5
9/11/09 at 12:18pm
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The demo's out, and is actually pretty good. The menu interface isn't that great, and I don't get the point of an avatar (you can visit the capital city and walk amongst other avatars, but I have no idea why anyone would want to do this), but the game is more or less a really handsome Sim City with an MMO component. Rather than plunking down a city into an isolated region, you're building them in populated planets where you can trade with your neighbors. You can apparently turn off the multiplayer thing and just tinker with cities all by your lonesome, as well, but not in the demo.
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