That is, until Cities: Skylines came along. Cities XL 2012 can be purchased for just under 40. Wide-Open Sandbox: People disappointed with SimCity (2013)'s microscopic city size found themselves some solace in XL.The game allowed players to play online and interact with others on massive persistent. City Life is an excellent game which I play regularly, and seeing how Cities XL is going to build and apparently improve upon what City Life started, Im going to be recklessly optimistic that this will set the standard for future city-builder games. Cities XL (formerly Cities Unlimited) is a city-building computer game in the same vein as the SimCity series, developed by Monte Cristo, which has prior development experience in City Life.It was originally scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2009, but was eventually released on October 8, 2009.
#Simcity vs cities xl series#
The most control you have over the terrain of your city is to level the general area. The SimCity Series was great up until Socities, which was a non-Maxis abomination. Compare this to Tropico, which has different gameplay features across its five iterations.
No effort has been done to improve the gameplay and the engine apart from XXL's multi-threading compatibility and performance boost.