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City Life 2008 Edition | 
 enlarge | From: Paradox
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $25.85
You Save: $4.14 (14%)
New (4) Used (2) from $18.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3596
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.8 x 1.2
MPN: PDX31
Model: PDX31
UPC: 897021001174
EAN: 0897021001174
ASIN: B0019LL4KE
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Play in Scenario or Free mode and explore 37 maps in five different environments | | • | 360 camera rotation and zooming | | • | Six unique subcultures share the city | | • | A complete map editor. Over 360 buildings are at your disposal. | | • | A powerful building creation tool that contains 166 construction kits for more than 3,000 available elements |
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Product Description
Design, construct and develop the city of your dreams with City Life 2008. It's a next-generation City Builder with a 3D game engine that provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre and total freedom of construction. Create superb villas in residential neighborhoods or imposing skyscrapers in the financial district. Provide comfort and satisfaction for your citizens by offering them work, health care, entertainment facilities, and much more to ensure that your city's coffers are brimming. It's up to you to manage this city efficiently, ensuring booming development while at the same time regulating the very delicate issues of pollution and traffic. Let peace reign between the six unique subcultures, or pay the price if the situation deteriorates into conflict, riots, and, in the worst-case scenario, fires.
Ensure that the six subcultures share the city in the best way possible to guarantee peace and prosperity Satisfy the eight basic needs for each inhabitant - Work, Shopping, Health, Safety, Education, Leisure Activities, Quality of Life and Neighborhood A complete map editor
Minimum System Requirements Windows 2000 / XP / Vista 2.5 GHz Processor 256MB RAM Direct X9.0c Compatible 64MB 3d graphics card 4.5 GB Free space
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| Customer Reviews:
Great game for all former SimCity Players October 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been a Maxis/EA SimCity player for years. However, with their introduction of SimCity Societies and the new style of play I opted to give another game a try: City Life 2008. I'm glad I did. The graphics in the 2008 edition are very good with special features like reflections in the water that make it a little more special than the SimCity games.
I found the game itself to be very quick. Keep in my mind I have a very good machine (Dell Precision M4300 with 4GB RAM), but I suspect it will perform well on most machines. The one area where the game lags is during the installation and loading of the game. The installation seemed like it took forever! It also takes a minute or two to load each time you play it. Maybe the slow load time is where the game is loading into memory, etc and makes the game play more smooth and quick.
I loved the ability to zoom in to the street level and look around at the city. That's awesome! The zooming in and out is much quicker than any of the SimCity games. The ability to build roads and other items in a "freestyle" mode is also an excellent feature. Initially, the number of buildings seems adequate, but after playing the game for awhile you might wish it had more.
The "society" part of this game can be a learning curve for some users. You do have to build the city with all citizens/cultures in mind (blue collar, rich, etc). However, after a few tries you easily get the hang of it. I know SimCity Societies has the same concept, but I felt limited in the SimCity Societies game play. City Life 2008 offers more of the traditional "city building" that I am used to.
I recommend this game to anyone that wishes to get into the city simulation game world, as well as any previous SimCity user. The great graphics, added building features, and street level zooms put it above SimCity. Give it a try, you won't regret it!
Great city building sim September 18, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being a fan of city/empire building sims and considering SimCity 3000 was the first game I ever purchased I thought I'd give this one a try. If you enjoyed SimCity without all the heavy financial wrangling then this game is just right for you. The graphics are high end and very detailed. You can actually get right down to 'street level' and tour your city. In addition you also have a ability to 'tag' citizen and follow them in their lives throughout the game. I haven't really figured out the purpose of this but its a nice feature in any case.
You start out the game by choosing one of many landscapes that come with different 'difficulty' problems such as tourisim, road building, etc and place your city hall. From there you construct residences for your soon to come populace.
The interesting twist to this game is that there are five or six different socio-economic levels of citizens that will eventually populate your city. You start out with Blue Collar workers and Fringes. These citizens can only work specific jobs in factories or business available to you to build as well as utilities and services. By building certain services or businesses that employ the next level of citizenry (Suits, Radical Chics and Elites)your Blue Collar workers may advance to the Fringe level and the fringe to the Suit level, et al. Fail to provide and they can drop to the "Have Not" level. As poor as poor can be.
Your main job as city administrator is to advance and keep harmony in your city. Have Nots and Blue Collar folks get along just fine. Blue Collar and Fringe do not which leads to disruption in the neighborhoods and if allowed to go for too long, rioting.
Only persons who enjoy multi-tasking and constructing cities that run (almost) like clockwork would find this game enjoyable and satisfying. The game allows the player to follow scripted scenarios or play sandbox mode.
Your citizens pay taxes and certain businesses generate income. The higher class and more educated the employees the more money the business generates for your treasury. Naturally services like police, fire and the like drain your coffers.
Finally this game runs fine on my Dell XPS 2000 Gen 4 desktop. Make sure that you ensure your system requirements meet the specs or you'll be sorely disappointed.
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