CITIES XL™ is the next-generation in city-building games, allowing gamers to develop cities on realistic 3D maps using an incredible collection of unique structures. Would-be Mayors are challenged to create the right combinations of social services, leisure activities, special events and job opportunities within their cities in order to feed, employ and entertain their citizens. Realism will be pushed to the limit with cities that are bigger, more realistic and more sophisticated than ever before.
The game’s optional online features and services will let gamers create interconnected cities on virtual and persistent planets. By combining a fantastic single-player game with the social and multiplayer aspects of an MMO, CITIES XL™ will shape the future of the genre by offering more variety, bigger cities and multiple gameplay layers.
•What type of mayor will you become?
Create a modern empire and become a successful Mayor
•Build your dream cities
•Attract various citizens and business
•Develop the potential of your cities
•Use natural beauties and resources
Shape and develop your ideal society
•Will you finance cultural activities and schools?
•What will you choose: prevention or repression?
•What type of industries will your budget sustain?
•Should you privilege a planned economy or a market one?
•Will you and your citizens be concerned about global warming?
•What kind of society will you create?
Join a new world
•Establish yourself on persistent virtual planets
•Make your choices to be decisive for the planets’ future
•Visit other players' creations, chat and socialize
•Trade, cooperate or challenge other players!
•What will be your contribution to your new world?
Cities XL Download Features
•25 maps featuring varying landscapes - from canyons to grassy hills and snowy mountains
•Around 500 buildings based on various architectural styles (European, American …)
•Diverse citizen structure: Four levels of wealth, four main different needs (Services, Environmental, Prices and Traffic) split into many sub-categories (Police and Fire departments, Education, Leisure, Commerce, multiple types of Pollution, Taxes, Cost of Life, Distance to work and more)
•A rich enterprise selection ranging from agriculture to heavy industry, services, tourism…
•A complex, but easy to access, simulation based on 12 resources to trade with an opportunistic IA (electricity, waste management, agriculture, water, fuel, etc.)
•An ambitious traffic system including many type of roads (five different widths, costs, quality and capacity), highways, airports, ports, and much more. A complex bus system will be provided for free post release.
•A set of never-before-seen real-time construction tools allowing players to create curved roads, building zones of various shapes, elaborate bridges...
•An avatar studio and Web-based profile pages
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