For example you can't see which of your people walking in the streets are tourists or workers, which could be very handy. But before going to buy it, I made a small research about the game but I was shocked to find out thatĬities XL is alright, but is less detailed then Simcity 5. The cars and tracks cannot compare, for example, to the realism standard set by Electronic Arts' Need for Speed 2 SE.When I saw Cities XL Platinum in the internet I was interested in playing it. Unfortunately, the implementation of 3Dfx acceleration here seems to be among the slightest I have seen - the main advantage appears to be smoothing out blocky pixels and increasing the frame rate, rather than adding all of the visual bells-and-whistles I am used to seeing with this chipset. The attached screen shots do not reflect 3dfx video hardware acceleration (this is the only 3D accelerator chipset supported), yet are still pretty nice. The graphics in this game are, quite simply, very good but not great. You may even engage in a full-fledged deathmatch this way, and this option adds considerably to the game's replay value. While single-player mode in this game is fun, the real challenge is in going up against up to seven other human opponents in the well-implemented network mode. There are, however, a few minor glitches in the game, as you occasionally find pedestrians walking in the air or find your car protruding from both sides of another solid object (with no damage done). This diversity led to quite a bit of suspense and unpredictability in the game. The whole experience reflects a hip, sarcastic, witty approach to a kind of gaming experience that is often taken much too seriously.Īs to the pace of the gameplay, it varied from a relatively quiet "Sunday drive" to incredibly frenzied action with multiple vehicles attacking you at once. You may choose and completely customize one of five different vehicles to drive on the roadways, and you may equip your vehicle (finances permitting) with oil slicks, missile launchers, machine guns, and mine droppers. In this game you may drive around any one of over 50 built-in SimCity 2000 cities, import a city from SimCity 2000 (if you own it), or use the included SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit to build a city from scratch or modify an existing one. And rather than being a bloodfest like Interplay's Carmageddon, where pedestrians are intentionally run over whenever possible, in Streets of SimCity it is actually difficult to hit people-they quickly move out of the way if you aim at them - and instead the car-to-car battles are more subtle tactical affairs. In a rather clever way, in the Streets of SimCity the company has transformed the game into an action racing experience, with more than a little bit of combat along the way. Maxis is a company best known for its complex management simulations, the most famous of which is SimCity.
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