

For example, you need to have housing for unskilled people that take up jobs like farming. You also need to have housing for skilled workers that work in offices and progress towards executive jobs. You also have to take care of the city’s utilities, like the electricity supply, sewage etc. The gameplay itself revolves around supplying all the right things in the right places. All this combined with the laid back music adds to the easy-going atmosphere. You can see all your new citizens walking around going about their daily business and watch the cars all driving around. There are also some really nice buildings, and once you have built up a successful and large metropolis you can sit back and enjoy your new creation. The graphics are all very nice, they are very highly detailed and you can zoom straight into a first-person point of view and actually walk around your town. The whole tutorial is everything you should expect from a management game and explains everything you need to know. You can, of course, use the keyboard as well for some quick selections. The controls are all easily managed by using a mouse and clicking on the various buttons on the main screen. The tutorial explains all the basics about building a city.
CITIES XL 2012 VIDEO TRIAL
For the newcomers though, you will probably need to play the tutorial unless you are the type of person that likes to learn by trial and error. However, if you are a new-comer and have not played last year’s version then you will find what turns out to be a pretty nice game here.Īs I have already mentioned, if you played last year’s version you will not need to play the tutorial as not much has changed at all, apart from a few new buildings and better graphics.

However, the game has not changed much from last year’s Cities XL 2011, so if you are looking for a whole new game then you will be disappointed, this is more of an expansion pack. The game focuses on a single-player mode and is a very detailed and enjoyable simulator for all those budding virtual Mayors out there. Cities XL 2012 is a city simulator developed by Focus Home Interactive.
