Software:Cities XXL

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Short description: 2015 city-building video game
Cities XXL
Cities XXL box art.jpg
Developer(s)Focus Home Interactive
Publisher(s)Focus Home Interactive
SeriesCities XL
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
  • NA: February 5, 2015
  • PAL: February 12, 2015
Genre(s)City-building game
Mode(s)Single-player

Cities XXL is a city-building computer game developed by Focus Home Interactive as a sequel to their earlier game Cities XL Platinum. The game allows players to design, build, and manage cities.

Gameplay

Zoning

The game offers the designation of three types of building lots: residential, commercial and industrial. Each of which can have a different density. Residential lots have four social classes: unskilled workers, skilled workers, executives, and elites. Before designating building lots, the game requires players to select which class of residents may live there. The social class chosen for a lot will not be modified by the simulation.

To create building lots, players can zone an area of the map in which, upon confirmation, individual building lots will be created by the game. Players can also plop building lots individually.

Transport

Cities XXL allows players to create a road network of a variety of road types at many different angles and curvatures. Bridges and tunnels are also part of the simulator. Other transport options are buses, trains, ferries, and subways.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
Metacritic47/100[1]
Review scores
PublicationScore
4Players45%[2]
GameStar56%[3]
Jeuxvideo.com10/20[4]
PC Games64%[6]
PCGamesN3/10[7]

Cities XXL received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[1] Many of the reviews were negative due to lack of new content, and poor multithreading support, which was a selling point of the game.

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Cities XXL for PC Reviews". Fandom. https://www.metacritic.com/game/cities-xxl/critic-reviews/?platform=pc. Retrieved January 20, 2016. 
  2. Oertel, Mathias (February 12, 2015). "Test: Cities XXL" (in de). 4Players GmbH. https://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht/PC-CDROM/Test/36201/80965/0/Cities_XXL.html. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 
  3. Danneberg, Benjamin (February 16, 2015). "Cities XXL im Test - Patch, Größe XXS für 40 Euro" (in de). Webedia. https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/cities_xxl,3082870.html. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 
  4. Lespol (February 9, 2015). "Test : Cities XXL : Mieux que Sim City ?" (in fr). Webedia. https://www.jeuxvideo.com/test/416699/cities-xxl-mieux-que-sim-city.htm. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 
  5. Díaz, José Álvaro Sañudo (February 16, 2015). "Cities XXL, análisis" (in es). Archived from the original on March 7, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150307100335/http://www.meristation.com/pc/cities-xxl/analisis-juego/2028489. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 
  6. Bertits, Andreas (February 12, 2015). "Cities XXL im Test: Das kommt uns alles sehr bekannt vor" (in de). Computec. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150323192418/http://www.pcgames.de/Cities-XXL-PC-259764/Tests/Im-Test-Das-kommt-uns-alles-sehr-bekannt-vor-1150655/. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 
  7. Brown, Fraser (February 10, 2015). "Cities XXL review". Network N. https://www.pcgamesn.com/cities-xxl/cities-xxl-review. Retrieved January 1, 2023. 

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