It was enough that even the nonsensical system for handling garbage collection eased up enough for me to appreciate the beauty of the game lying beneath. Rubbish piled up much more slowly and manageably, for example. At time of writing, I couldn't find anything to fix motorway congestion specifically, but I could address all its symptoms. Even mere days after release, Steam Workshop had thousands of fan-made downloadables that solved every problem I had with Skylines. Despite its new appearance, that's the same problem that killed SimCity even after the online problems were fixed.Īs frustrating as that was, Skylines does have an incredible edge on EA's 2013 city-builder: mods.
Regardless, traffic would always deadlock in arbitrary spots causing everything to fall to pieces. It also had the same problems with dead bodies and a bit later with rubbish. It had the same level of education as everywhere else - despite my refusal to add a school. It has power, water, police officers, and more, but all of them are provided independently with no roads or power lines or pipes linking the two.ĭespite the separation, my sub-city showed some peculiar traits. With my second city, I divert a lot of extra funds to create a second city core about 2 kilometres away from anything else. But after a while it becomes clear that the whole system is broken. Cars move around realistically, they go to and fro delivering goods here and there. But as my creations grew and grew and grew, I ran into one of the dumbest and most obnoxious problems from SimCity - poorly managed traffic. I wanted to push the game to its limits and see just what kind of weird concoctions I could get away with. I wanted to express myself, I wanted to craft and carve so many different types and kinds of places. My brain filled with all the different possibilities.
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In many ways Skylines picks up where SimCity left off, and it seems to tick off a checklist of features that fans of the series wanted to see.
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In fact, they work as a perfect complement.Cities: Skylines is available on PC, Mac and Linux for £22.99 on Steam. It has to be said I’ve really enjoyed having these tracks as my background music for my god building – they are easy on the ear, and not ever distracting enough to take you away from the game. DJ Jessica Statler mixes tracks that cover 80’s Electro, Vocoding Electro, Breakbeats, and Futuristic Synths. Here you have 16 new tracks that feature a mixture of instrumental and vocals songs. The sound is still excellent throughout, but there is a little extra found accompanying this pack with the Synthetic Dawn Radio station DLC added in. I will also never get bored of zooming in and out of the action, whereby one second I’m looking at the whole city like an angry god, and then in an instant, I’m down on the ground, taking in the minute details of the smallest house with a family going about their daily lives. With Industires, Cities: Skylines still looks great and I will never grow tired of the sun rising and setting on my glorious city. It’s very complex, but can give the sim lover hours of new content with new maps, buildings, vehicles and policies. The safety side of things is covered as well, especially how it affects hospitals with work related accidents. There are also new policies to involve yourself with, seeing the industry pack selling practices for the shops, or covering automation and the benefits that has for your business even though it loses jobs. You then start to set up the basic main building to kickstart the industry treadmill and you’re on your way to success.Īs you progress – much like in the main game – you can level up your industry to open up a whole range of new buildings and products to make. Now, you can – like me – start the game from scratch and begin building anew with your new tools, or you can place the new industrial area in your beloved city, with a choice of specialisations to choose from, like oil, farming or forestry. This DLC pack is aimed at the business moguls among you, those who like to see a thriving industry and the big bucks coming in. There have been quite a few DLC packs that have been released over the years too, just now we have a brand new one that focuses on the Industries.Ĭities: Skylines – Industries on Xbox One promises to offer fans one of the biggest updates in the history of the game so far. In that time it’s proved to be extremely popular, gathering up a huge fan base as well. It was a unique game in the Xbox One library at the time and delivered a really enjoyable sim experience unlike any other. A few years back I reviewed the main Cities: Skylines game and really loved it.
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