Think of Cities XL as a sort of spiritual successor to Sim City Societies, but with less emphasis on the people-please and more emphasis on playing God.
Now that Maxis has been swallowed by Spore and the guys who made Sim City Societies have moved onto Children of the Nile, indie developer Monte Cristo is free to snap up what little market there is for city-building sims in the wake of their 2006 game, City Life (which is, you guessed it, another city-building sim).
This week’s Humble Weekly Bundle, Focus Home Interactive 2, features a variety of different games which will please RPG fans to city-simulator fans. Notably, unlike normal bundles there are four tiers (compared to the usual three) — when you buy into one tier, you can’t change the size of your order without contacting Customer Support.
In Episode 52 of the Game Under Podcast, Phil Fogg explains why he's taking 20 hours to finish Shovel Knights (he is an accidental platforming masochist), and Tom Towers declines to play anything: instead he joins Phil in an all encompassing discussion on videogame criticism!
CitiesXL Platinum gets a release trailer with buildings being build to the sound of dubstep music.
I like how they put "Build Huge Cities" in there. From what I see in Simcity. Cities are so small.
Am I the only one that thinks this game will be awesome? Sim City meets a persistent MMO universe. Real time trading between neighboring cities. I think this has a lot of promise!