Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have announced that city builder Cities: Skylines will be coming to PC March 10th, along with a pre-order pack offering an extra 5 buildings - if you can call a Bouncy Castle a building?
Also releasing today is a new trailer for the city sim, which was teased last week with a number of in-game shots including a rather robust looking world editor to sculpt our own landscapes.
Cities: Skylines promises to breathe much needed life into the city building genre, after Maxis tragically fell short with 2013’s SimCity - an ambitious revival of the much-loved franchise that fell victim to an inefficient game engine and game-breaking bugs; it has been effectively abandoned.
Hope now lies with Cities: Skylines, which is from Cities in Motion developer Colossal Order. It releases on PC March 10th and pre-ordering will include 5 extra in-game assets.
A Deluxe Edition includes 5 world monuments; Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, Brandenburg Gate, Arc de triumph and Grand central terminal. This joins the pre-order bonus items.
Cities: Skylines feature highlights:
▪ Multi-tiered and challenging simulation: Constructing your city from the ground up is easy to learn, but hard to master. Playing as the mayor of your city you’ll be faced with balancing essential requirements such as education, water, electricity, police, fire fighting, healthcare and much more along with your citys real economy system. Citizens within your city react fluidly, with gravitas and with an air of authenticity to a multitude of game play scenarios.
▪ Extensive local traffic simulation: Colossal Orders extensive experience developing the Cities in Motion series is fully utilized in fully fleshed out and well-crafted transport systems.
▪ Districts and Policies: Be more than just an administrator from city hall. Designating parts of your city as a district results in the application of policies which results in you rising to the status of Mayor for your own city.
▪ Extensive modding support: Build or improve on existing maps and structures. You can then import them into the game, share them as well as download the creations of other city builders on the Steam workshop.
