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I felt like gamespot's review hit the nail on the head(1-2). They pointed out a lot of the good, but they also shared what they felt held the game back. I also found it intersting that they were.... I guess you could say complementing City Life(3), i wasn't expecting that since i had only heard bad things about the game from the community here. 1. "Taking a city builder online like this is long overdue, so kudos to Monte Cristo for making the attempt. But boos to Monte Cristo for shoddy implementation.For starters, the online aspect of the game is shoved in your face too much. You need to register the game and log online to play the single-player cities, which is unnecessarily intrusive and makes offline play seem like an afterthough." 2. "As engaging as Cities XL can be for those who appreciate straightforward city building, the game is only halfway there. The single-player mode has clearly been manipulated to nudge gamers toward the MMO-styled subscription plan, which doesn't offer great bang for the buck at present." 3. "Where those games tried a different approach to city building with six different demographic groups of citizens that you had to keep separated to avoid riots, the game design here is more of a straight-up SimCity clone. This is pretty disappointing, as the class warfare of the City Life games made for challenging urban planning" Link: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/citiesxl/review.html

Never mind Fallout 3 was a ruined DC. It also included the surrounding area. I don't think it's that bad, i mean poor new york gets destroyed in movies, games, Tv shows, all the time.

Lets play a game. Lets pretend that i am the average, hardcore gamer. I enjoy citybuilding games and strategy games, but i'm not a Super hardcore SC fan (i don't mod, i don't use many mods ecept things like NAM, i don't treat it like an artist's canvas like some players do .) I want to buy Cities XL, i mean it did well on IGN! And i'm sure other reviews will give it similar ratings! But... At the same time i read all of these topics about how much the game stinks! Who should i believe and why? (This scenario does apply to me quite well, but i'm sure i can't be the only one!) (Assuming i HAVE played simcity, and love it. But, the IGN review did say it was moving the Genre in the right direction...)

There is one critic rating on metacritic... Anyone want to translate for us?

Yea I've had my anti-virus throw up red flags when i've started games before.

All the topic got merged into bigger topics. I know this because i would be reading something and then i would realize that i had a few of the posts earlier, but i hadn't read any of the posts around them. on the subject of reviews, it could take Gamespot/IGN/1 up a very long time to get a review up.

If this is true, that's just ridiculous. I mean if i can play my steam games offline i should be able to play cities offline.

If the game develops like you guys hope, sure i'lll jump on board. But thats the only way i'll jump on board.

It's going to be a painting of a pear or something Still, that is interesting.

Yea i would like to see where that came from. Not because i don't believe it or i don't agree or something along those lines, but i like the way that person writes. Posted before i could Anyways. I really do hope cali can pull out of this mess they're in right now. And I'm not sure if a lump sum of money will do the trick this time.

Oh snap the game comes out THIS Friday. I totally lost track of September. Anyways, we should request that Zero Punctuation review Cities

I'm not really sure, those are good questions. Especially numbers 1-3

Originally posted by: USA_Pride Wish as hard as you may, but you won't see MT in the single player. Simtropolis is a great community of resourceful people, but I would imagine that Dirk would not host and support a site that is illegally modifying and distributing software. As evil as EA, they were very good with the Simptrop community.quote> Exactly, and wasn't there a topic stickied about not talking about hacks, cracks, etc?

Originally posted by: crakeningq Alternatively you can wait for it to reach the bargain bin (in about a month Exactly. I bought DiRt (PC) for 7 bucks, then Grid (PC) for $15. You choose, $120 for both at release or $22 a little later.

Originally posted by: KidsGameHunter Monte Cristo has a solid history of not making 64 bit comptatible games when I ran City Life: World Edition it said "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher." After I preloaded Cities XL after pre-ordering it, I was wondering if I could run in solo anyway. So I ran the program, and it said the exact same thing. The demo worked fine for me. I hope this message is just some temporary thing and not a something that made me waste 40 bucks pre-ordering the game.quote> You should be fine, usually if a demo runs then the game will run. Usually. It would be rediculous if the Demo didn't give you that error but the game did.