Cities: Skylines Review, Gameplay & Expansion Packs
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Cities Skylines Review, Gameplay, Story, Expansion Packs, PC Requirements, Walkthrough, News & More:
We have added everything you want to know about Cities Skylines including its review, gameplay, story, walkthrough, PC requirements, DLCs & more you can find inside!
Cities: Skylines is a
single-player open-ended city-building game that is developed by Colossal Order
and published by Paradox Interactive. In March 2015 the game was released for
Linux, Windows PC and macOS. In 2017 it was released for Xbox One and
PlayStation 4.
Cities Skylines Review
Cities Skylines is a modern 3D
video game based on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game
play features to comprehend the excitement and hardships of creating and maintaining
a dynamic town. The game also has a day and night cycle, a built-in weather
system. The game boasts a fully realized transport system and transport choices
while testing them to meet citizen’s wants using more than a few original
built-in features which changes the approach to the supervision of town.
Building city from the land is simple to learn, but difficult to master.
Playing as the mayor of your town player is faced with balancing vital
requirements such as schooling, water, electric power, police force,
firefighting, health and more along with city’s actual financial system.
Cities Skylines Gameplay:
In the game players begin with a
plot of land that is equal to a 2 by 2 kilometer alongside an interchange exit
from a nearby highway and some money. The game contains some premade terrains
to build on, and also contains a map editor to let players to generate their
own maps, including the use of real geographic features. The player starts
adding roads and residential, industrial, and commercial zones and various
basic services like electricity, water and sewage as to motivate inhabitants to
move in and provide them jobs. As the
city expands the player unlocks city improvements including educational
services, police force, medical health facilities, tax, transit and other
features for city management. Buildings in the city have different growth
levels that are met by enhancing the particular area, with higher levels giving
more profits to the city. For example, a commercial store will grow in level if
nearby inhabitants have better education level, which in turn will be able to
let more staffs to be employed and increase city’s tax revenue. When user
accumulates sufficient inhabitants and money, users can buy nearby land. The
game has a good transportation system letting the player to design better
city’s public transportation such as buses and subway systems in order to
reduce traffic problem. Roads can be constructed straight or free-form of
different widths depending upon traffic volumes.
Cities Skylines Gameplay
Cities Skylines DLC Expansion Packs:
Several DLC expansion packs are
released for the game, most recent are as below:
Mass Transit DLC Expansion Pack
released on 18 May, 2017 contains different settings for the game's mass
transit systems including cable cars, ferries, monorails and blimps etc.
Concerts DLC Expansion Pack
released on 17 August, 2017 contains the facility for users to put events
venues for festivals and concerts and regulations for these events.
Green Cities DLC Expansion Pack
released on 19 October, 2017 let the users to implement principles associated
with ecological improvements to cities such as electric cars and solar panel
rooftops etc.
Parklife DLC Expansion Pack released on 24 May, 2018 contain features of
building theme customizable parks, gardens, national parks and zoos.
Review by Nick:
The finest city builder game in
more than a decade. The game has very few flaws as I only saw them after many
hours of play. Where other games have failed, Cities: Skyline succeeded and has
set the new standard.
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Cities Skylines Specifications:
- Developer: Colossal Order
- Publisher: Paradox Interactive
- Platform: PC Windows, OS X, Linux, Xbox One
- Release date:
- Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux: 10 March 2015
- Xbox One: 2016
- Genre: City building, construction and management simulation
- Mode: Single player
Cities Skylines PC Requirements:
Cities Skylines will not run on your PC if its system specifications are lower than minimum requirements for this game. For best performance, make sure your system specifications are equal or higher than recommended requirements.
Cities Skylines Minimum Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Cities Skylines Recommended Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Microsoft Windows 7/8 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 3.20GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.5Ghz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Cities Skylines Gameplay Walkthrough:
Watch Cities gameplay walkthrough Part 1 which shows technique to build the best city.
