Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Review for Cities: Skylines. Game for PC, Steam, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux, the video game was released on 10/03/2015 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 15/08/2017 The version for Xbox One came out on 21/04/2017

Finally after coming to PC in 2015, the April 21 Cities: Skylines will also be available for Microsoft's flagship console, with the necessary precautions that will allow even Xbox One console owners to be able to build their dream city through a complex construction and management system.



Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Build your city

Cities: Skylines is known to most PC gamers who love the city builder genre, with various difficulties to face to satisfy every inhabitant. You will decide the style of play from the beginning, in fact, infinite combinations of constructions will be possible, so as to make each game always different from the previous ones. For example, you can choose your starting construction area, choosing from many pre-existing areas, and then subsequently select various options that will allow you to choose whether to have infinite money, whether to set the drive on the right or left, and other interesting settings that will allow you to choose your style of play.

Once you start the level you will be greeted by "nothing", in fact you will have a huge empty space with some trees, waterways, and a road to connect to civilization. The tutorial will immediately give you the first instructions, even if in our opinion they are not exactly so intuitive, therefore forcing you to think your own way in the first minutes of the game. You will be directed to build the first roads that can be, as in real life, of different types: there will be the classic two-way street, the one-way street, and then move on to streets with more lanes. Once you have built the roads you can start setting up the "spawn" areas of the buildings. You got it right, unlike other games related to this genre, in Cities: Skilines it will not be you who build houses, factories and so on, but you will simply set up building lots near the roads that will be: residential lot, industrial lot and commercial lot.



At the beginning of the game you will have a "small" area to build, but it can be combined with other areas near your city. All of this will come at a fairly high price, and you decide which areas will be cheaper to buy in the beginning and which ones will be better to leave for later.

Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Electricity and water systems

In Cities: Skylines, however, we will not limit ourselves to building roads, but our work will be much more complicated. Each building, in fact, will need electricity, water and a sewer drain: obviously we will have to build everything in order to please every single inhabitant of our new empire. As for electricity there are various options, we can in fact use a fossil source that will allow us to have a continuous supply of electricity, or use wind energy that will bring a different amount of energy based on the wind speed. However, all these resources will have to be connected to the city electrical system, through the pylons we build which will also have to reach every building in the city.

The same is true for water and sewage: it will be necessary to connect our city as soon as possible to a source of water, which is always present nearby. Once the water absorption structure has been built, it will be necessary to construct the pipes that will have to be connected to each building. Obviously, as in real life, the pipes will pass underground, thus allowing us to have some freedom of action regarding the construction. For sewage drains, the matter will be much simpler in fact every time we build the pipes these will be double, one for water and one for the sewer drain, so it will only be necessary to build the drain system near a source of water and then connect it to our pipes, but paying attention to where we put it, since the drains will tend to pollute the water and also contaminate the drinking water over time.



Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Public transport

In our city there is certainly no lack of public transport, which will be unlocked at a slightly advanced stage of the game. The first vehicles we will unlock will be taxis and buses: the latter have a very interesting function in the game, in fact we will have to decide the trajectory of each single race and its stops. Developing this aspect well will greatly increase the general happiness of our citizens as they will be able to move around the city in a much easier way thanks to our buses. As for taxis, on the other hand, in addition to the main station, it will be possible to build small stops where citizens can wait for their taxi in complete tranquility. Once a sufficient number of inhabitants has been reached, the metro will be made available, as well as other transport solutions, aimed at speeding up the movements of citizens but also tourism.

However, the means of transport will not be built only to help citizens in their daily tasks, but will be fundamental for the mayor. As the population grows, traffic will begin to increase and your streets will no longer be able to contain the huge influx of cars. You will therefore be forced to build roads with multiple lanes, which may also contain lanes reserved for individual public transport.

Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Services and districts

In every self-respecting big city there are always industrial areas and services: this is necessary to allow an optimal development of the city. Ours will not be outdone, in fact we will have the possibility of predestining lots for the construction of industries, which must however be located in an area quite far from homes, given the high levels of pollutants present near our factories. We will also have to build many commercial areas, to prevent the inhabitants of our city from deciding to leave in a more organized city with more services.



Fundamental aspect that will be unlocked after a few hours of play will be the presence of police structures, hospitals and firefighters, which will allow to maintain public order in case of problems, which unfortunately will happen very often. Landfills (to be placed in isolated areas), cemeteries that will carry out their task in a similar way to how it happens in real life will also be fundamental.

Another interesting feature are the districts, that will allow us to divide our city in order to control it in the simplest way possible, it will be possible to set different taxes for each district, to set specific rules, or to increase / decrease the presence of firefighters, police forces, etc. Each district can have a name, to facilitate management when a large number of inhabitants is reached.

Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Monuments decorations and areas

In addition to the functional aspect, it will be necessary to keep the level of beauty high, building parks, places for children, tennis courts or even amusement parks. This will greatly increase the happiness of the inhabitants and at the same time make your city pleasant to see.

The game also features many complex decorations and monuments, such as the statue of liberty or the Eiffel tower which will allow you to give an extra touch of originality to your city. You can also plant trees and bushes of various types to make everything greener and more ecological in the eyes of your citizens, or leave everything in the hands of technology, building any type of monument available, obviously paying attention to the money available in the coffers of your city. It will therefore be up to you to beautify your city making it one of the most beautiful metropolises in the world!

Cities: Skylines Xbox One Edition - Review

Cities: Skilines is undoubtedly an excellent product, which has already had great success on PC, despite the more or less serious technical problems. It has also been re-proposed on Xbox One to the delight of City Buiders' lovers, guaranteeing impressive freedom of play, in fact there is talk of being able to reach up to a million inhabitants, an exorbitant figure if you think that the situation is already 50 inhabitants. begins to degenerate due to the amount of structures. Fortunately, there are pop-ups that show us the needs of each individual structure, to greatly facilitate our work. From a technical point of view, the game is pleasant, however if you zoom in on the structures you notice a slight graphic poverty, totally justifiable given the vastness of the game. The game is quite fluid even if there is no lack of frame drops mainly due to the many structures present at the same time on the screen. Cities: Skylines has given us many hours of gameplay and will give us just as many given the excellent general progression of the city that allows you to build a real empire.

► Cities: Skylines is a Management-type game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive for PC, Steam, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux, the video game was released on 10/03/2015 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 15/08/2017 The version for Xbox One came out on 21/04/2017

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