There is a flaw in the engine causing the game to suffer from a memory leak, and it seems to be unfixable due to the way the engine is coded. You could, but once your city gets beyond a certain point, the game will start to slow down. Perhaps you want to create a majestic tropical tourist city on the coast, or a sleepy farm town, or a gargantuan megatropolis. But perhaps you don’t really care about simulation, and you just want to build pretty cities and take lots of cool screenshots. It seems that Cities XL might not be a SimCity player’s cup of tea. In SimCity you are able to track down the source of those types of problems and fix them. I don’t know what caused that or how to fix it. “Everybody went on holiday,” was one reason I was given when a shop closed down. Yes, businesses will go bankrupt or people will move out, apparently because they ran out of money or something, but some of the reasons given for these things seem weird. You can’t really see your city doing anything. The random people and cars you see about your city are just randomly generated, they aren’t going anywhere and will randomly disappear. Sure, you can build an enormous city, and have lots of beautiful looking roads, parks and buildings, but everything seems lifeless. Cities XL does not give you this feeling. SimCity has a much deeper simulation, it feels as if the city is actually alive. If you want to compare Cities XL to SimCity though, Cities XL does not come out looking good. Cities XL Platinum provides you with a huge area to build your city, you will certainly not run into any issues regarding lack of space. Perhaps you were disgruntled with the limited space given to you to build your city in SimCity. If you already own a Cities XL game, then perhaps it might not be worth spending your money on this version, especially if you were expecting something different.īut perhaps you have not played Cities XL before, and are only now interested because you were disappointed in the recently-released SimCity. The only thing new in Cities XL Platinum from older versions is that it comes with a bunch of new buildings and some new maps. It has the same engine, the same menu, the same UI and the same music. In fact, if you have played Cities XL or its 20 variants, you could be forgiven in thinking that it is the exact same game. It is certainly visually impressive, but the graphics are completely identical to the original Cities XL released back in 2009. As the name suggests, you are able to design and construct an entire city with the tools given to you.

Cities XL Platinum is a city-building game.

Cities xl platinum review