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2015 · Focus Entertainment · City-building · Real-time strategy

Cities XXL

Design, build, and manage the world's largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL, a sandbox RTS simulator. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis. With town-planning including home locations, retail plots, offices, industry and infrastructure across 47 architectural styles and over 1000 buildings, manage the happiness of your city's denizens, with leisure activities, landmarks, and ecology and pollution management. With new structures, but also all-new ecological buildings and upgrades, such as the park-and-ride, electric car dealership, and bike hire, Cities XXL offers a greener approach!

Released: 5 February 2015
Platforms: Windows
Genres: City-building Real-time strategy Simulation Strategy
Developers: Focus Entertainment
Publishers: Focus Entertainment
Series: Cities XL
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Sandbox
Country: France
Age ratings: PEGI 3 USK 0
Languages: Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain)

About

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.

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Gameplay

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.

Reception

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