Eladimir

Thought I'd through my thoughts in there. Played every sim game ever created out there so I got really excited to try the new Cities XL. I only got through part of the tutorial and some planetside time before the servers went down and heres my thoughts: I very much like the road building interface, very unique very cool and a big step forward The problem is it clashes with square lots from a min/max view. But I'm sure people could use it to build some fantastic looking cities. What I haven't seen yet it what makes it work pay 10 bucks a month. I didn't get to play extensively enough to believe that. So I'm gonna have to pass on the limited edition and wait to hear the full reviews when it comes out and judge again. oh and also graphics were good but not as good as I was expecting.

I seen and read so much bashing on this game but I never quite understood what you all meant. I bought the deluxe pack with destinations so I'll admit I never really saw the original out of the box game. The creative mode (original) was clear unbelievably easy. Nothing had a maintenance cost and yes you can bash it was easy. But very few of you ever talked about playing it on the hard settings. Compare in simcity 2000 how many of you had a city collapse on you that you started with 20,000 bucks. And how many have had a hard time getting it running with a $10,000 bond. Except in SC:S it was much more drastic of a spread. On the hardest rating even the best sim player would have hard time taking over the entire map without collapsing into an abandoned down of hooligans. The game has more building variety than anything before and you actually have to pay attention to more than just a base building cost as in other simcities. Don't have to lay down powerlines in SC:S, who cares. I pay tens of thousands for a power plant, they can just toss in some underground lines for free. Also I found the fun in creating a prefectly sculpted city much more fun than in Simcity4. The way you just run around plaster zones which they autofill in for you. Didn't do it for me. Maybe its an each to there own but SC4 was good and SC:S was excellent.