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[Azated]

So, Cities XL. The Simcity 5 that has maps ten times the size but with excessive memory leaks and low complexity playstyles.

And, best of all...

Spoiler: CURVED ROADS! (click to show/hide)

Plus, there's no DRM. That's probably the selling point at the moment.

I'm terrible at explanations, so here is a gameplay video that showcases the game reasonably well. Ignore the penis.

The graphics are very nice and the gameplay is quite a lot of fun, despite having to pay far less attention to detail compared to other games like Simcity 4. There's a few gamebreaking bugs, such as the random memory leak that occurs after no more than an hour or so of play and when you get a certain number of population. Plus, the game has horrible multi-core support. Yeah, not great for a game with this kind of processing potential.

I managed to find a fix for one of the lag issues, and it definitely makes a difference. The lack of multi-core usage still hinders the game significantly, but with some tweaking the game is more than playable.


Each year, a new version is released as a sort of update. Cities XL Platinum (the 2013 version) is on steam for $29.99, but if you own a previous version you get 85% off your purchase, taking the price down to $4.50. Not bad if you ask me.

[ollobrains]

fact they havent given out regular patches and fixed gamebreaking bugs breaks it for me

[Azated]

Yeah, they've been kind of slack with the patches.

[ollobrains]

might be worthwhile if they fixex it sooner rather than later