SimCity 4 Deluxe vs City Life 2008

[[BT]Flint Westwood]

Before I take the leap can anyone enlighten me on City Life 2008? It's currently on Steam for $2.49 USD. Is CL2008 comparable to SimCity4 in terms of gameplay/simulation? Graphics are not a concern for me.

[antstubell]

It sucks, Nuff said.

[Unperdants]

I'm enjoying it. I spent hours on the original Sim City and then Sim City 2000 and this is my first return for years. Sure, it's jerky which is a joke on my system, but I don't mind as it's such good fun. I wish the same could be said for Anno 2070, which I bought full price and regretted doing so.

[[BT]Flint Westwood]

I've been giving Anno 2070 a look for the past 2 months, but the price and some negative reviews have held me back. I think for the price, I may just take that leap. 2.49..I'll have to give up dessert for one day during lunch. lol

[kpetrmail]

City Life looked cheaper for its day than any Sim City game, but it allowed for freeform city planning back in 2007 (whereas Maxis is just about to implement it in the next SimCity), so it may be a fair tradeoff if you're really into such things. There is less content than in the vanilla SC4, and, if I recall that right, City Life is nearly unmoddable, though.

[ddmsky]

City Life? 2008? As far as I remember - don't bother. You could consider latest Cities XL if not the notorious memory leakage causing a lot of trouble to game's stability. Better mod the SC4 and wait for the 5 (hoping it will not end as DLC-fest).

[jdenm8]

City Life is like SimCity Societies, except executed about as well as one can expect for a game of that type. If you wre looking for a proper alternative, the latest release of CitiesXL is probably the best bet even though it runs about as well as SC4.

[la_nague]

yeah citylife is a bit like societies. You plop all the buildings yourself.
It also has this strange gameplay where epeople are from one of...i dont know...5? different social classes. And every class has another class that it hates and when they encounter each other, they start fights and even riots.
So the whole game consists of plopping the same looking buildings all the time while trying to keep the people away from each other, there isnt much actual city building.

Play simcity 4 if you want to build big simulated cities.
If you want a more personal small scale citybuilder, you might try tropico 4 instead, its a lot more fun than citylife.

[mrczech_texan]

if video games were relatives with identifiable traits, the simcity franchise would be the pedigree old-wealth family of the city builder dynasty, playing polo and drinking quality bourbon while sitting on their third-story balcony over looking a picturesque valley at sunset. simcity 3000 would be the current "godfather" (simcity classic and simcity 2000 have passed on from modern pc playability without having to use an emulator), with simcity 4 being the heir to the throne and so on with simcity 5 and the other sequels to come.

however, the city life franchise is the mentally handicapped offspring of something horrible that happened between simcity societies (a.k.a., the-simcity-game-that-should-never-be-mentioned-by-anyone-in-the-history-of-ever) and focus home interactive. cities xl is the good guy greg of the group; he made a very interesting go at it and didn't disappoint as badly as his parents and grandparents did. however, the true city builder fanatics who has their roots in earlier games (for me, simcity 3000) will always be drawn back to the simcity franchise.

honestly, it depends on your preferences. if you enjoy freedom and versitility while directly managing your own economy, then cities xl (or simcity 5) is the game for you. however, if you like tradition and building a city for the sake of building one - minus the bells and whistles and complicated economics - then simcity 2000 (GBA version) - simcity 4 is the game for you! i hope all of this info helps in your decision making!

-Signed, an enthralled video gamer.

P.S. another city builder that i really liked is tycoon city - new york. its a game developed by atari back in 2000-something and focuses on individual buildings rather than entire zones or districts. you're on manhattan island building up a capitalist monopoly of real estate and 60+ businesses from scratch... literally. like, there's nothing on the island except for streets, bridges, and subways. you can build any kind of business from italian restaurants and laundromats to smart suit stores and hertz rent-a-car. you can also customize the buildings to increase its advertisement impact, beauty, and capacity (as well as many other things) which gives every building a unique look. i've played with the same cd-rom from 2007 on two different computers without any trouble and im sure its on steam for no more than ten bucks. there's a reason why the classics from yester-year have kept their value while the newer games are going for less than a few bucks.

P.P.S. happy new years! hopefully you've made a decision by now, but if not, just buy all 3! that's about the same price as far cry if it were at *least* half off right now.

EDIT: accidentially put retarded instead of the politically correct term.

[jdenm8]

Technically Tycoon City: New York is more of a Real Estate simulator. All the basic infrastructure is there from the start and you just develop the world.
However, it is great.

The devs could have spent some more time on increasing the Graphics Engine's capabilities (Even on new machines, the graphics engine just has a hard limit as to what it can do) or making sure that all the textures were actually on the disk (http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/470861940217319644/BB69E45F73203E9B5290E7DA72810A53D0CB747E/ The white things are meant to be Sandwiches) and less time modelling bagpipes (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/470861774808999358/B7C3C5C5870E1BE38FCFEDF0D36814979E3DF9F5/ ) though.