Top 13 Games Like SimCity (2013): Page 5 of 13

Top 13 Games Like SimCity (2013)
Few things are as satisfying as watching something you built come to life.


9. City Life 2008 Edition

City Life 2008 Edition gameplay trailer

City Life 2008 Edition is a challenging and entertaining city building game from Monte Cristo with a twist: in addition to the usual planning and construction you’ll have to be doing, you’ll also need to broker a precarious balance among 6 social classes that decidedly do not have the best of relationships with each other.

The 6 classes in question are the Elites, the Suits, the Radical Chics, the Blue Collars, the Fringes and the Have-Nots. While a few of them will tolerate each other, there are other combinations that are truly a recipe for disaster. Riots are a very real possibility when you force your Elites to rub shoulders with your lowly Have-Nots, for instance. This mechanic adds an interesting element to an otherwise typical city-builder.

City Life 2008 Edition offers large maps for expansive cities, demanding gameplay (made even more so by the social class warfare mentioned above), a wide variety of structures and a very intuitive camera function that allows for zooming, rotation, and even exploring the city you built in a street-level first person mode. It makes you feel as if you’re actually walking (well, more like floating) along the streets of your city like the average man, and is a neat addition to the gameplay.

The graphics aren’t as crisp as they could be, especially zoomed in, but you can build huge cities full of activity and diversity.

You can get a sense of real immersion in your city by exploring it at street level in the first person. Note the pop-up to the right informing you of problems in the city.



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