You'll also be required to build Utilities for your citizens, including electricity and water or Police, Fire and Medical services. You'll have access to manual industry - such as Farming, Heavy Industry and Factories - as well as retail with shops and hotels to more tourism based buildings such as museums, bowling alleys or Ferris wheels. You'll be able to construct a number of industries for your city, which includes the entire range you might expect a city might need. These work the same as accommodation, where you can unlock the higher densities as you gather a bigger population. This allows you to choose building sizes, from smaller houses to larger-scale tower blocks. After selecting the type of worker to attract, you'll need to designate the density of the buildings. At the start of the game, you can only make accommodation for unqualified workers, the other three are not unlocked until your population grows more: the higher the population, the more advanced workers you can unlock. You then select what type of worker you would like to attract. To get this working you select an area on the map where you would like to place the buildings. This is going to be a hard game to explain, so for those of you who haven't played a city building game before, this should give you a heads up.īreaking the game down, you have four different types of accommodation for the workers, called 'Zoning': unqualified workers qualified workers executive workers and elite workers. Taking out loans is an option too, however it is highly ill-advised. You can do many things to get out of debt like changing the tax rates and deleting buildings. For example, you can loose money rapidly, so one minute you may have 800,000 credits, and then all of a sudden, you can have -120,000 credits. Nevertheless, although it is tactical, there is a form of gambling involved. In this game you have to be tactical as rushing in to buy everything you can lay your hands on is unwise due to monthly costs. In each terrain you have up to five different cities ranging in difficulty, and you must keep note of how much flat or fertile land there is, and whether it is holiday suitable, alongside other factors. In Solo Mode you have five different terrains - coasts, mountains, valleys, canyons, and great plains.

It is complex and this made it difficult to review at certain points. Reviews // 25th Nov 2009 - 12 years ago // By Jessica Cities XL ReviewĬities XL is a game in which you can go worldwide and create cities.

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