Cities: Skylines Review

[Tacticus Winter]

Cities: Skylines is the hopeful 'Better than the last SimCity disaster' to come around. And for these guys it was a huge success considering it's low expectations.

However, would this game have succeeded given the expectations of an actual Sim City game? By far, no.

If you had liked the last 2 SimCity game's I would not recommend buying this game, because the learning curve is so strong and stiff and the fact that the game actually overcomplicates itself at points, you would be better off sticking to the original SimCity games.

Is this game worth $30?
No. I would pay between $5-25.

If SimCity and this game were combined, then SimCity: Skylines would have been a HUGE success, given what SimCity did well on, Cities: Skylines drastically regressed on.

SimCity took me a little over 30 minutes to get the hang of. Cities: Skylines, basically the same game, I'm still learning after a little over 2 hours.

It's not that good of a transition.

What SimCity did well on, is either limited or removed in this game leaving it at nothing but a City simulator.

However;
The fact that you have almost unlimited room and multiple options for zones leaves the opportunities endless for a fun experience and actually at points more challenging than SimCity has ever been.

Lets do a rundown of what I think of some of the basic tools:

1)Zoning. Zoning was better in SimCity. You had just 3 types and they upgraded themselves. Here you have 6 types and they dont upgrade themselves meaning that you basically have to merge 4 cities together to make one. There is no zone upgrade as far as I've seen which is a huge problem that hopefully will be addressed.

2)Roads/Traffic. I loved this aspect. This is a HUGE improvement from SimCity. You can upgrade any road to any type and that is SO helpful! And you can even add decorations to improve happiness. This was well done.

3) Serivces. Services had a big regression from SimCity. You can't upgrade them and there are many problems with them at this point in time. Sometimes my fire trucks won't go to a burning building in their vicinity when they are idle. Power won't cross rivers so you have to make entirely new plants or turbines on the other side. And sometimes crime is rampant with tons of Police stations.

4) Specializations. Specializations was a huge speciality of SimCity and I enjoyed that aspect of the game. Here it is a little overcomplicated as I can't figure out how to use any of my oil and ore zones or how to zone them. And there is no ingame tutorial for them either.


So all in all. For it's expectations, it is a good game. But not anything deserving of a 9/10 on a AAA title scale.

Score: 6.8/10
Worth: $13.

If you have SimCity 4 or the latest SimCity I would stick to those games. If you don't have either, I would recommend this game as a starting point.

FOR IDIOTS: THIS IS MY OPINION ONLY. I am not biased, nor was this a paid review. This is a simple review of 'What I think'. You have your opinion and I have mine, we are both entitled to our own. Keep the comments clean.
I am open to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Thanks for reading,
Tacticus.

[Tacticus Winter]

引用自 olel：

Elaborate troll is elaborate.

Not a troll.

I actually have evidence =)

[Freedom]

Sims 2 and Sim 3 I own and and loved. :) I would never buy the others, Maxis was the only branch of EA I still supported. I do hate EA, I remember what games were like before they started buying up all the companies with an idea.

EA is where ideas go to be killed. :) No band wagon needed mate. I have hated EA a very long time.

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