IS IT WORTH IT?! | A Review of Cities Skylines in About 3 Minutes!

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Published on April 23, 2022 12:01:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlTs2QAhvgs

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Cities: Skylines (2015)

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A detailed review of Cities Skylines in about 5 minutes! We make game reviews, without the fluff. Subscribe to the channel for new reviews every week!

Hi it’s Zach from 3MGR and in this video I’m finally getting around to doing a review of Cities Skylines. Get ready for some really fast talking ‘cos we’ve got a lot of information to cram into a short amount of time, so sit back, buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Writing this view it quickly became clear that it’s hard to talk about Cities Skylines without mentioning Sim City, because for most of gaming history if you wanted to play a city builder you pretty much had to play one of EA’s Sim City games which had dominated the genre practically uncontested since 1993. Sure there’s been other similar games a long the way but none of them managed to capture the magic of Sim City and most of them suffered from major fps problems once your town reached a certain size. That means you Cities XL…

All that changed in 2015 though when a little indie game called Cities Skylines was released and in one fell swoop it swiped the old, wobbly legs out from under Sim City, a series that was already pretty beaten up after a string of poor releases following Sim City 4, and Skylines took the throne as the new king of city builders where it remains to this day with practically no competition in sight.

Now unless you’re totally new to pc gaming then the chances are you’ve at least heard of Cities Skylines which should serve as a testament to just how good the game is, a game still being actively developed almost 8 years later by not just the developers themselves in the form of paid DLC’s that expand the game by adding new mechanics, maps and customizable assets, but also by one of the largest modding communities around, all supported by the steam workshop which lets you download and install free modifications that can completely change the game with the single click of a button.

Now with so few active developers in the city building genre, it’s inevitable that most people make the comparison between Cities Skylines and Sim City 4. Both are superb games and still very worth playing today so I’m not here to say which one is better because, honestly I love them both, but there’s no denying that cities skylines lets you build the biggest cities and brings a bunch of modern quality of life improvements along with it.

You start out with an empty piece of land a population of 0, and as your city expands the game gradually introduces more and more services and critical infrastructure buildings needed to fulfil the growing needs and expectations of your citizens.

For example in the beginning things like crime, building fires and waste disposal are all non-existent problems of the future, but as your village slowly turns into a town and your town into a city, you’ve got to make sure you meet all the needs of your people otherwise they might start moving out, or in some cases like if they end up drinking their own unfiltered poo water they might even die, which needless to say isn’t a good look for any town this side of the dark ages.

The general flow and mechanics of the game are easy to get used to and everything feels familiar if you’ve played other city builders before, while still being easy enough to pick up if you’re a complete beginner.

Using a grid system that unlocks a new purchasable square on the world map each time your city reaches a new population milestone, you’re able to take your city from a tiny little village and keep expanding it into a full blown metropolis complete with hundreds of thousands of people spread out over 25 enormous grid squares, where each individual tile is larger than the full game map in Sim City 2013.

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