Added: 2 years ago
From: Ripskin16
Views: 115,582
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:

All Comments (220)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • The gameplay seems pretty smooth.

    What configuration of PC are you using?

  • Is there a sandbox or freemode? Like in simcity

  • quite possibly, THE most boring game i have ever played. Its the kind of thing i would think of i was trying to create 'the most boring game in the world'... LOL

  • Mainly graphics, the user interface also changed a little bit, of course, the fixes to common problems and the new features as well but that's to be expected.

    I have picked up both games and never seriously played either of them, however recently I got back into SimCity4 (an amazing game for 2003) and had an amazing time, then I remembered Cities XL and it looks breathtaking but from what I hear it isnt that good, however serious players love it.

    What do you guys thing? Ripskin?

  • what is the difference between this and xl 2011

  • what is the difference between this and xl 2011

  • This game is amazing and gives the real opportunity to balance with precision every strategy in building cities. It requires a lot of accuracy and thorough thinking in order to achieve a high result. I could say that it is better than SC4 because it combines more new elements such as resources and also provides better link between various things which transforms the game into a challenging experience. Thank you developers!

  • I dont know if its implemented but: This game could have been develepoed further. I mean,there could have been multiplayer with 2-4 players and in the later game there would be wars and you need to maintain your resources while still building more barrackses and army bases to keep fighting,tank factorys and things like that.

  • does it matter how far away the people have to travel to get to work?

  • whats a good laptop for this game thats under 500$

  • Getting a Gaming PC soon, does this game require alot of hardware to run it with Med to High Graphics on with no lag?

  • In SC4 the traffic also obeyed the time, but not perfectly.

  • What are the requirements for this game?

  • This game is just square roads/streets filled with buildings.

    I tried playing it but couldnt feel the freedom of building as i had with sc4. 

  • now the game is only 8 eur

  • @Ripskin16 i want only ask u what pc u have i only ask what is need to speed gaming in cities xl not 2011 only first part

  • This is fun just got it today

  • This is better than Sim City now. I like both games but I like this more..

  • as a long time simcity fan....

    i really love this game, it really is fun and entertaining like simcity.

    maybe simcity 4 have better and more realistic city management simulation, but as far as it goes for fun and build-as-you-want game-play i gotta give this game a 4/5!!

    the reason why i didn't gave it 5/5 is because this game gets boring really fast (as long as you stay building the same city all the time)

    overall i would recommend this game to any simcity fan that is just looking for more.. :)

  • wow your city looks like a small vilige paradise for people who are living in the noisy cities like new york

  • how many cities can you build not online

  • @Ripskin16 hey I just ordered the dvd-rom of cities xl 2011 a day ago. I can't wait to get it and play it.

  • can you pick what building you want to put in a lot? or does it just by random put any building in a lot that you pick?

  • seen pretty fun but how much time do you need to play this and how many people stay play this?

  • What do you like better, sim city 4, or cities XL? Also Cities XL or Cities XL 2011?

  • on simcity the traffic changes during work hours and not

  • this game is hard to get for me

  • i love this game! its way better than sim city 4, but some things i really miss from sim city 4... because in sim city 4 you could drive with a police car, fire truck, and ambulances.

    they should make an expansion pack, just like sim city 4 rush hour.

    by the way, how do you save manually??? xDD

    because it keeps saving automatically, and i dont know how to save the game...

  • Really nice video, your voice is nice to listen to and some cool ideas for my city, but next time make the music a bit lower:P

  • Does anyone know where I can get this game at?

  • Sorry, but i was thinking of getting this game and heard a lot of people talk about the servers being shut down or something, will i still be able to play this?

  • nice vid! i wish i had the game, but i hope i get it soon! it's a lot better than simcity!!!!!!

  • Would you say that the game is easy to pick up and play?

  • @illage2 Yes. There are some things that will have a small learning curve but there are so many video's on here to look at if you have problems. I played a lot of sim city in the past, but it had been well over a year since I had last played that when this came out. I was able to pick it up and build this and my online city with no problems.

  • @Ripskin16

    I read somewhere that you have to continuously pay money to continue to play the game, is that true? Im only interested in playing the single player part, not online.

  • @Ripskin16 What would you pick SimCity(whichever) or CitiesXL 2011 ???

  • @Ripskin16 this game dosnt seem as awsome as it look i heard that if you have two massive cities the game will crash.

  • @Ripskin16 don't mean to be a complete noob but how do you reduce production for retail?

  • @Ripskin16 would you recommend this game to fans of SimCity 4?

  • @Ripskin16 does citys xl need plug in or download?

  • @illage2 unlike gta iv.....

  • a cheap mans sim city attemp

  • @seanmurray2010 Cheap mans? I would not call it that. I would call it competition for a game that no longer is in production. It filled the void and did it nicely. Not for everyone, but dont know it until you have given it a serious chance. I was very wary at first, but I made these videos to show off how good it is against people who nocked it without honestly trying it.

  • @seanmurray2010 your wrong, this is WAY better than SimCity (no offense to SimCity creators)

  • Whats the difference between cities xl and cities xl 2011 ??

    

  • @jock0man Quite a lot actually, I am working on a video I hope to put out in a week or two depending on my time over the next two weekends. This video will show case the differences between them. IMO 2011 is the better game. It took the quality of the first and enhanced it with better economics and trading for a true city wide economy.

  • @Ripskin16 Thank you!!! My mind is clear now :D

  • @jock0man i played both its exactly the same - same gameplay same things same graphics same look and all but there are more stuff the trading is way improved and easier to operate (in my opinion) new option of the linear zones, new buildings including some new landmarks (or smthin like that) e.g. the statue of liberty or the eiffel tower... it is better many sequels are worse than the first game (not only strategy) but this one is same engine and all but new improved things! 2011 is better ;)

  • i actually like your voice lol

  • @mrroco300 Thank you, I will try to be more animated in the vid I am working on though lol.

  • This game is amazing. It is no simcity 5 but it is close! It looks amazing and runs very smooth. Lot's of things to choose from. I for one love it. I love zooming in a seeing the landscape with the topographical camera all the way zoomed up! Love that part!! Beautiful graphics!

  • @TheJedimaster6788 Definately. Sim City became too clustered with things and kind of lost touch with its roots as a city builder and it became a city builder second to the economical builder which was fun, but not quite like this.

  • I saw this game on steam, and liked the video. I'm not sure if you're in the UK, but it's £30. Not the price of a full retail game, about a quarter less. Is it worth it in your opinion?

  • Yes this game is definitely worth it!

  • @TheJedimaster6788 Agreed

  • @Kelberwitzi I did pick up the 2011 at the discount price. XL I pre ordered the special edition to get some extra stuff. At a discount I would say yes. But I do not know the style of game you like so its hard to say yes or know. If you like a casual yet fun city builder this is for you. You can micromanage things to a point, but you do not have too. 2011 makes it even better along those lines.

  • This reminds me of Rollercoaster Tycoon!

  • @MistaDubstep A little bit, Disney's Coaster was always more fun for me :)

  • This would be absolutely amazing if you could have an army and attack other cities

  • @Armoredfury193 That would be awesome, but that would be a whole new game :)

  • sick vid man, city looks great. might look into buying this game

  • @thekeeperob Thank you for the comments :) I enjoy it, but look at 2011 vs XL now that it is out.

  • @Ripskin16 sim city i always lost due to the "budget" i hope this game is a bit easier on the economics. good vid dude

  • @ThePixelChaos Thank you for the comments; This game is much easier to budget, you still have to work and pay attention but there is less micromanaging of the budget and more planning what you build when.

  • this or sim city?

  • @quadsnipable i prefer this - more freedom and easier

  • @quadsnipable Depends on what you want. I find this so much more fun, and the newer engine and graphics really shine. SC4 is something I loved to death and played a lot, but wont return to any time soon.

  • what software do you record with ? : )

  • @kamikazefighterK its probably FRAPS you know...

  • @dAKarkoloAb Correct in this instance

  • @kamikazefighterK There are a few, but for this I used Fraps.

  • Dude please do a CXL 2011 vid :)

  • @GuyLikesMacs In progress :) Need to get the city a little farther along and balanced, skipping some things to get it built so I can show some things off :)

  • does this game still charge you monthly

    

  • @thekrazyone1998 No, the planet offer went away a long time ago.

  • @Ripskin16 Do you mean the ENTIRE multiplayer setting because that might take away from the game's enjoyment factor.

  • sry but i hate ur voice

  • @NeelixMaster I dislike text talk when your at a physical keyboard so we're even :) I'll be more animated next time just for you.

  • @NeelixMaster he actually has a nice voice! its calm and nice but may be a LITTLE bit boring LOL

  • I hope those roads and farms are not too much for ye budget. ;)

  • @Denon3333 Thankfully no, I was always positive with this city with my income. Building it all took a bit of planning and spending, but I saved up a little first and had no problems.

  • @Ripskin16 Goody! :) Are you still playing the solo mode?

  • built a airport

  • Comment removed

  • £4 on steam for limited eddition with exlusive steam content

    Until Thursday...

  • @360ownez

    I know right, that's why I came on this video :d saw the steam update a few mins ago.. but hm.. I guess i'm not going to buy it, simcity 4 looks more fun actually

  • @360ownez Just bought it bro =D

  • @German680 Enjoy :)

  • hows this game compared to sim city 4

  • this game is more realistic but when you play simcity 4 you fell free! you cen drive in the city and make some metors or fire. this two game is just like sims 2 and sims 3.

    sims 3 is realistic and sims 2 is CREZY!!!!!!!!

  • @stootoo I do miss some of that from the Sim City genre, but they should have incorporated Streets of Sim City into it more instead of that odd driving style one. It was fun, but kinda cheesy.

  • I love your Vids :) I love CXL as well!

  • @GuyLikesMacs Thank you very much :)

  • How do you get soooo much traffic! you have a small city!

  • Don't they have Railroads and stuff in this game? I haen't seen one yet!

  • is cities XL better than simcity4?? are there in cities XL PLUGINS like in simcity4?

  • @MrGigigigia not as of now, but the games are quite different so a subjective comparison like that would not work. I loved Sim4 and played it quite a lot, but I have had more fun just building and enjoying my city here instead of managing 400 things at once trying to earn any money and expand.

  • this game look fun but i dont think its better then sc3

  • can i download this for free??

  • @ktoschris no buying....

  • @ktoschris you can download anything for free nowadays but of course it's illegal. i'd wait until cities xl 2011 comes out (which is in 3 weeks or so)

  • @lilaluft until then ill play city life. but do u care if its illegal??

  • @ktoschris personally, i don't. i have downloaded everything you can imagine xD

  • @lilaluft xD

  • I think it will be a while until a buy another city simulator game. I had bad luck with Simcity 4. Commute times and crime levels would sky-rocket. Mods didn't help. I had my best luck with Simcity 3,000. Crime is easier to get rid of in that game.

  • @Microsoftultimatefan This one is much easier than sim4, not as much to keep track of or pay attention too. Just build and have fun.

  • @Ripskin16 Does this game have something like or similar to occupant types like in SimCity 4? For example: In SimCity 4, if you zoned residential zones, then if you spent your money on quality schools, hospitals, libraries, police stations, etc.. And placed in well funded parks, you'll get high wealth residential. If you don't place any schools, hosptials, parks, police stations, etc. in your city. Then low wealth residential buildings will develope in you city.

  • @Ripskin16 Do they have that in Cities XL?

  • For tunnels and bridges can you add toll booths for income to the city

  • @TheMaster592 Not yet unfortunately. I hope they add that soon.

  • @TheMaster592 Not at this time sadly, but hopefully at some point they will allow that. I would be even more wealthy if they would lol.

  • how do u make a good city,my biggest is 300,000 people

  • Is anyone aware of a demo version? Looks like a cool game, but I always like to test things out before hand.

  • iLuv This game xD

  • How have you made this video, witch program

  • how many types of bridges does it have? how many types of football stadiums? how many bridges does it have?

  • @92greenebeen There are a lot of buildings, but not quite so many specialized ones just yet. Only one stadium of each type I think, never built one so I cannot say.

    Theres several bridge types, depends on what your spanning and your budget.

  • lol i got this game and play on shitty settings :S my card fails i got nvidia 6150 se LMAO lol , but all my other settings are good 4.8 ghz , 4 gb ram 3.0 pixel and shader version etc ... i really need to get a new card cuz my integrated card sucks :S you recommend any good gaming card :)? ;P

  • @RUNEFORCE Theres a lot of good cards, the nvidia 8 / 9 series are good, fairly similar and their new stuff is nice just pricey. The ATI 5 series is great. I have the 5800 running EyeFinity.

  • @RUNEFORCE i have the Nvidia Gforce 9400GT, it's 1gb of video card so it can play almost every game at a normal speed , i can recommend it becous it's only 70buks, in holland

  • @juwett21 9400 for 70 bucks? Why? Why not get an 8800?

  • @WhiteSypher bcuz an 8800 is not as good as an 9400GT :)

  • Why is this online? do you even interact with other players?

  • @squishless This is an online game?

  • @Microsoftultimatefan Yes, you can only play it online

  • I am never buying anything from MC again.

  • Why not??

  • Yes, I miss some Sim City 4 stuff too - the subways, the railroads etc. also there aren't enough sounds when U click on buildings and stuff I mean they could bring a bigger variety of sounds and do U know what's pissing me off ? Flat surface. I hate to see my cities on steps so I avoid it as much as I can but this ain't always enough :(

  • @AmazingRace4ever I preffer flat land. In Simcity 4. If you want huge mega industry then you won't put in even the slightest ammount of hills.

  • It seems that Cities XL has a better zoning.I don't mean to be like,cocky or mean or anything.Because on Simcity 4 and Simcity Societes Deluxe and regular,you have to choose and make it and set and some dumb stuff.Y'know?TWO THUMBS UP FOR SIMCITY AND CITIES XL!WHOO-HOO!Listen,I am being the nice guy here on my comment not the evil guy on my comment.

  • @Victoriaonline29 erm yeah maybe XL has better zoning i never played it but i might and simcity 4 deluxe is old game so u can kinda forgive it ... but man simcity societies is a fucking crap! ur right there if simcity societies was made by maxis man that would be best sandbox game ever building cities i beleive in that :)

  • it seems to me that City Life still had more freedom and a stronger concept than Cities XL or am I wrong? The graphics look much better of course but City Life is an older game.

  • @Assafro In some area's it might, City Life is the predecessor to XL I believe. I never played it but I have heard of it. Made by the same company so I believe XL just expands upon it in areas.

  • @Ripskin16 Lol i can hear ur breath

  • @MrCaioable mm its turning me on too

  • @Assafro 2 Me it like Cities XL is city Life 2.0 But I like both City Life and Cities XL¬¬

  • @Assafro I got both, city life isnt worth much compared with cities xl. 

  • Is this like Simcity 4 except with the 3D from societies but not the crap from societies?

  • @PkerWhomerang Much better than societies, it does have 3d but its better than SimCity in ways. There are aspects that are a little more shallow but other's that are deeper. I enjoy it much more overall.

  • @PkerWhomerang I used to play Simcity 4 everyday ..then I tried societies but I was very disappointed.. then I found out about Cities Xl and I fell in love and now I'm when using my pc I'm alwaus playing it hehe

  • Its better than the Sim Societies Crappy Game lol

  • @xPhylem I played Societies at a friends house it looked so iffy I never took a chance on it and I am not sorry about that lol.

  • Yes their is.

  • is there any forms of Transport like Buses,Trains,Planes,Boats,ect.

  • @GayBoyRunning yeah,buses were put into the online version about 2 months ago, and when the PO shut down the offline patch brought them to the solo game. Trains and such have not been added yet. You can build shipping ports but no ferries or anything.... yet?

    I have several other video's that go over some of the other aspects and my latest one gives a brief intro to buses.

  • Heheh I got this game! It Rules!

  • @CitiesXLTutorials Glad you like it. It is indeed a fun game :)

  • okay look i want to buy this game but i got questions.

    is there god mode like in simcity4?

    when i zone do all my roads have to be all strange looking like can i just make a straight line for a road and correct intersections.

  • There is no god mode. The terraforming tools suck honestly but you have access to them at any time. However the building aspects of the game are 10x better so a hillside does not need to be 100% perfect to put a road on it etc like in SC4.

    Check out some of my online gameplay videos, (Skip the first, all talk.) and you can see skip through it to see how you can modify roads and such, or just build straight ones. The video I am working on shows a lot of changes road wise between the current

  • oh well in that case than ill buy the game, but looking at the graphics in the game it does ask for a demand on the video card. what video card are you using?

    is the online play really for ever and ever over? cause that would of been much better.

  • The game does have some demanding requirements out of the GPU. I am playing on an XFX 5850 from ATI in Eyefinity.

    Online play is nice, but honestly the way it was run was not the best for the game or the developers. Ending it to bring the same level of content to the single player will give the game a better user base. If online consisted of visiting and trading then they would not have had to pay so much to run it.

    Hopefully it will return, but for now solo mode will benefit from it endin

  • City shown in the video's.

    You can build straight, curved, angled, whatever you want. If you cannot go straight try turning the road and going around the obstacle. Much more realistic.

    Tunnels and bridges are a joy to build, I even built a tunnel under a lake just because a bridge was not possible with the city almost on the water front.

  • whhopsie i mean 4 gb ram

  • Ram and GPU wise it should be able to handle medium settings, perhaps a little higher with no AA enabled. However that CPU might be a bottleneck for it requiring less graphical settings to keep it running.

    Is it a dual Centrino or just a single core?

  • it dual cenrino

  • Does it work with Nvidia GT-220

  • Should work just fine, might have to turn some of the eye candy down a bit but you should be fine.

  • @scarytimmy lol. Of course it will. :)

  • how well can i run this with intel centrino 2 2.0 ghz, Randoen 4570 HD (512 mb) and gb ram

  • Especially theres a video that shows the cars light on when it's night, but I don't know why didn't came out on yours. If you want to see it copy and paste this:

    Cities XL Online Gameplay 4-3.mp4

    The car lights is on 5:34 in the video that I'm showing.

  • That is my video as well :)

    When I made this they had not implemented the head lights or street lights so they do not show.

  • This game is amazing!!!!!!! I can't beleive a game can have that much realistic shades and more!!! I mean first person that's amazing!!!! I just wish I had a laptop that's compatible to this game and hope what kind of requirments it needs. Great video by the way.

  • For the zoom level there is not another city builder near it in quality. Kind of how SC4 blew me away with the detail you could see when zooming in :) The shadow's and texture quality are amazing. Looking at the WM trash bins is always fun, so much detail on everything. They did a good job with it.

    Going to be a little pricey for a laptop to run it, but its doable around $800 - 1k.

    Thank you very much for the compliments :)

  • I kind of built a system, but it's a Latitude E5400 Intel Core 2 Dou T9600 2.8 GHz, 3 gb of RAM, and planning to replace the video card GMA 4500HD to a 1 gb video card if possible it has 2 PCI Xpress card slot I might later buy a 512 mb video card. So does this complete it?

  • That meets the requirements. Vid base is a 3800 HD if you go the AMD route I believe so you should be fine.

  • do u really need to put some farms there.?what is d use of farms there.?

  • Farms can only be built in certain area's of the map that have the soil quality for them. Similar to real life not all soil is good for farming so they limit where you can build them. If you watch when I go to build them the area available for farming comes up as the white area.

  • oh cool.!tnx for d rep.!