Disappointed with SimCity societies: Monte Cristo comes to rescue

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Although I have been watching the project for some time, I thought I would make a thread about it on this forum.

After the disappointment that was societies, CityLife developer, Monte Cristo, seems to be taking the advantage of this and developing a city-builder that seems to be truly next-gen.

Monte Cristo also have a lively blog too, which gives details on what they are doing

http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3234896753615056088&q=cities+xl+&ei=V6eYSJmPK4-c2wKX3bXoBA

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5439317469136519560&q=cities+xl+roads%2C+bridges+and+tunnels&ei=Y6iYSMqYJZSu2gKbt43aBQ


http://www.citiesxl.com/index.php?/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
 
I've always been meaning to try out Societies. I'm not sure if it was good or not, but I'm willing to give it a try. I love these type of games, and Cities XL looks very next gen, and interesting. Need to upgrade my system though, Haven't upgraded in a long time.

Right now I'm stuck with 1GB of memory and a ATI Radeon X700 Pro. Horrible for games this day in age. Wouldn't be able to play those.
 
Societies is a shitty consolized(simplified) Sim City.
 
Going to be watching the videos right now.

I really really really want a sequel to Sim City 4. I need a new awesome city building game dammit!


Oh god oh god. That second video made me hyperventilate! I'm pumped! When is it expected to be released?
 
Looks cool. These games are really only fun with a money cheat, for me at least.
 
Looks cool. These games are really only fun with a money cheat, for me at least.

I tend to agree, I love making hundreds of bio structures and destroying them all with alien invasions and tornadoes! :devil:
 
Videos are unavailable.

I so badly want another game like Sim City though.
 
This game looks pretty good! Shame I suck pretty bad at these types of games, always run out of money without cheats :(
 
This game looks pretty good! Shame I suck pretty bad at these types of games, always run out of money without cheats :(

SimCity 3000 was pretty easy but I found the fourth game to be ridiculously hard. :/
 
Sim City 4 was balls.

You're balls.

It was fun. Especially with the fan community fixes and improvements. Oh hell yes. Made the city possibilities huge.
 
Maybe I over exaggerated a little bit. But there were lots of things made by the fans that really improved the game, at least for me and others. Things like improving route AI to make it more realistic and help ease up congestion in the process, different transportation sources like elevated highways over other highways, etc etc.

It's been absolutely ages since I last played, so I can't find any links.
 
How dare you.

:-P All good natured my friend.

Just don't rag on good games again! <shakes fist>

It wasn't revolutionary or anything, but it was decent. And I got a long life out of it, more than most games I play.
 
Spent heaps of time in SC2 and 3, could never get into SC4 and never bothered with SimCity Societies. I'm all for having someone else take a shot at the city building genre.
 
:-P All good natured my friend.

Just don't rag on good games again! <shakes fist>

It wasn't revolutionary or anything, but it was decent. And I got a long life out of it, more than most games I play.

I had more fun with 3.
 
I barely played 3 before 4 game out. So I really can't compare.
 
Spent some time at the website and CitiesXL looks awesome - I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.
 
Don't bother with SimCity societies. If SimCity 4 is a bull, SimCity societies is a castrated bull. No. It's a cow.
 
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