Simcity 2013 v Cities XL

[lew1984 231]

Here is the review for Simcity 2013 from IGN:

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/03/13/simcity-review

 

From it you can see that Simcity has got a score of 7.0, and in a big red box IGN basically recomends you play these games instead due to all the server problems, frustrations and bugs with the game lol. Cities XL has a score of 8.1

 

IGN's Recomended alternatives:

 

Simcity 4

 

Cities XL

 

Tropico 4

 

Obviously most people would say SC4 lol but out of Cities XL, Tropico 4, Simcity 2013 which do you think is best?

[AnathemaDevice 35]

Cities XL

[Panos 29]

You compare apples and oranges.....

[lew1984 231]

Maybe I do so what lol... Its just a forum to see what people think, and what simulator they prefer of course they are different if they where the same what would be the point?  and they are IGN recommended alternatives to different games in this genre.  

[Mr Saturn64 742]

Cities XL because I don't like to be forced to do multiplayer.

[AnathemaDevice 35]

Cities XL because I don't like to be forced to do multiplayer.

And the maps are huge. And it doesn't look cartoony (apart from the people).

[snick25 384]

Cities XL wins hands-down for me. SimCity 4 is great, but it's getting old... never played the Tropico series but I don't imagine you can do that much with it.

 

And SimScam 2013? Please.  

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I like all the alternatives listed for different reasons.

--Ocram

[Mr Saturn64 742]

If it didn't have multiplayer it would be my favorite with 4 as a close second.

[stefandav 0]

Seems that there is a lot of unhappiness with SimCity launch.  Folks don't like online playing only and even at that   reported glitches in time coordination of users etc.  Been looking at alternatives and it seems the Cities XL is most impressive and certainly most similar to SC.  I see that Origin download from EA is also interested in providing all advantages of online login: to play with community, get automatic updates, share your accomplishments etc - but you can still play offline too.  Though Origin does require online playing for some of the games they download, this is not the case with Cities XL at this time and the download is only $13.  This seems like a no brainer to me .. but I am here to listen if anyone has any other information on the Origin offer that I don't know or understand - thanks

[moaku 74]

Buy it on Steam, not on Origin.

Steam version is 7$ more expensive, but it's the lastest version, Cities XL Platinium. Origin only has Cities XL 2012 which is not the last one.

[Ceafus 88 1,843]

Cities XL

[lew1984 231]

I would chose Steam a million times over origin its just more customer friendly.

[duckbilled 0]

To clarify, can you use Cities XL bought through Steam with no internet connection (except during install, of course)?

[r00n83 12]

Yes you can play it offline.

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

Cities XL STILL! I would of thought that three months after the Launch, EA would at least have the decency to FIX THE GAME!!!!

[Indian007 25]

SimCity 4 and cities XL. The guys at EA can take SimCity 2013, shove it where the light don't shine, and jump off the highest bridge they can find. I would give them my copy of the game to jump off with, but unfortunately it's a download.

[simcityplayer15 33]

I choose both simcity 4 and cities xl. In cities xl, I find a more real life experience when making cities because you can make your own highways/freeways, bigger cities, and road layouts/designs. In simcity 4, the mods, Bats, props, textures, extra buildings, etc,  make it better to make a more real life like city . But for simcity (2013), I'm being honest, it suck sooo much booty that its just not fun to play after a while. The stupid small city size is terrible, we need a lot of space to make big cities. And it doesn't have some of the features that simcity 4 has, like highways and freeways. And I know the people at EA and Maxis know that the new simcity 2013 sucks. So my question for them is, Why wont you make simcity better?

[Linoa06 1,374]

In Cities XL, you can actually save your cities. So I prefer that one. XD