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City Life 2008

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Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life!
City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction. From superb villas in residential neighbourhoods to imposing skyscrapers in the financial district, design, construct and develop the city of your dreams. Provide comfort and satisfaction for your citizens by offering them work, health care, entertainment facilities, and much more, and ensure that your city’s coffers are brimming. It’s up to you to manage your city efficiently, balancing booming development with the problems of pollution and traffic that this brings. Build a sense of community between the six unique subcultures, or pay the price if their relationships deteriorate into conflict or riots. You are the architect, mayor and business mogul!
2008 Edition
City Life 2008 Edition contains all the content of the previous versions, adding a further 23 new maps and over 60 new buildings, including landmarks such as London’s Royal Opera House and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Over 360 buildings are at your disposal in this latest version. You now have the possibility to import satellite maps, heightmaps, and other user-generated terrain into the game. Use your imagination to create ever more spectacular towns, or recreate the exceptional cities of the real world!
Features
Gigantic city building simulation with high performance 3D engine.
Explore 50 maps in five different environments.
360° camera rotation and zooming allows you to dive into the heart of your city and observe its inhabitants.
Six unique subcultures with specific expectations and needs.
Play in Scenario or Free Mode.
New import tool for satellite maps and heightmaps.
A powerful building creation tool based on a modular system. No technical skills required, only your imagination.

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Monte Cristo
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Focus Home Interactive, Monte Cristo
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System requirements for PC

Minimum:
  • Supported OS: Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2/XP/Vista
  • Processor: 1.5 GHz Processor or the equivalent
  • Graphics: DirectX® 9.0c compatible 64 MB 3D graphic card (GeForce 4Ti or Radeon 8000)
  • DirectX® Version: DirectX® 9.0c or better
  • Memory: 256 MB RAM
  • Sound: Sound Card compatible with Direct X® 9
  • Hard Drive: 4.5 GB free space
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City Life 2008 reviews and comments

Translated by
Microsoft from Deutsch
Here you can still live very well with the graphic;) With the different population, tensions can arise well, so that the game can challenge you well depending on the Map. Until I really got it out to produce a fast-growing city, it already took a parr start:D 8/10 Graphics still good (2017) 7/10 for Urban Building Simulation (different groups = tensions) 4/10 Civic Behavior (unfortunately not really existent, This never comes to a Traffic Jam) 8/10 Game flow (you can build liquid, so that no Money Waiting Times arise if mans raushat) Clear purchase recommendation from me who does not yet know it.
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Microsoft from Deutsch
It reminds me of so many "State-of-the-art Build-up simulations" that all play almost the same way and always have only slight Gameplay or the Overlay is knitted differently. It is nothing special and for small Hobby Staedtebauer kept unnotifully complicated, especially this with the whole Working Classes. This is not to say that this Game is bad, but it is simply not suitable for a big Pupil who want to build such a city easily. I myself prefer to stick with "The Industrial Commander" if I want something complex, but without Government Construction. Everyone else is best to Just reach for Sim City 4. This is at least suitable for Beginners and if you can then play this Game in your Sleep or find it too easy you can look in here or go in small Steps and test "Tycoon City: New York." Btw: Hippies always want to work as Ghost Hunters! Logical and realistic and sooo ...
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Microsoft from French
So I spent a huge time on the non steam version in addition to my 20 hours here. This game is really a great classic of the city Builder, but... He's old! x). NaN but without messing around, with city skylines out, he lost almost everything Interet. It is really outdated in every respect. But if I were to judge him on his abilities to him it would give:-a very good game, complex Nevertheless, with 5 categories of people from the poor to the elites, with each their need, the style of the city is quite nice. That's right the graphics are outdated.. see very depasas, but the advantage, we just throw it with a tiny PC or a very old x)-very varied map, just like the buildings, we even build quite a few great monuments of modern mankind. -The music is nice, and it fits well in the head. -It is very little zommmer to the ground, to make super screen negative side-> outside its age there are defaults:-the management of tourism is in my opinion a little bugger, it is difficult to control who come in the city, where and why , especially in hotels x)-lack of control of the implantation of different social caste, sometimes the game, make dubious choices x). But I had a great time.
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