Cities Skylines also limits your access to advanced products, much like SimCity, by tying them to milestones. While they are a bit wordy, the information contained within is invaluable. Saviour comes in the form of many tooltips and handy hints as you come across things for the first time. There are many things to consider, and it is easy to get lost and confused. Water, give me water!Building a city is never easy.
The right and left bumpers in conjunction with the d-pad allow you to navigate the menus and while it all looks rather bare bones, it is very functional. Rather than letting you loose and demolishing things willy-nilly, it will highlight the section to be removed and means accidental removals are unlikely or at least less dramatic. If you make a mistake and have forgotten to press B to cancel, X will bring up the bulldozing tool. Otherwise, it acts as your main menu giving you access to top level items like budgets and policies. On certain tools, Y brings up other abilities such as fill, paint individual squares or area with the zoning tool. The right stick predictably controls the camera while the left and right triggers allow you to zoom in and out as you please. The left stick controls movement direction when building roads, and A allows you to place items. While some abilities have been pared back or omitted entirely, most features are still present and building your city is pretty straightforward.
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Having played the PC variant, we were worried as to how things would fare on a pad. We suspect that the power, or lack thereof, of the Xbox One, is the issue here and while this is understandable it does not make it any less painful.Thankfully, one area Tantalus has excelled in is that of the controls. Sure the game is pretty, and there is a lot to look at with citizens going about their business, traffic going to and fro and emergency vehicles attending incidents, but honestly they do not provide enough entertainment to negate the ability not to speed things up. If it were not for the fact we had a party chat going on while we played, things would have gotten far duller than they did. While we are sure there are reasons for this it stunted our enjoyment. Oh no, wait, hang on, this edition of Cities: Skylines has omitted this critical ability. Thankfully there is a speed up function so you can quickly save the money you require for that high school you need. After a while, however, you will find that there’s less and less to do. Now there’s a house with a view!At the beginning of Cities Skylines, you have an entirely blank canvas, roads to build, zones to plan and people to please. In addition they can get rather boring after a while, especially if your city is hamstrung by a lack of money. With a mouse there is lots more you can do and drawing out cities is much more natural. It is possible that one reason these games lack traction on console is down to the interface. In Tropico’s case, it brings in things like trade and factions which makes it an entirely different beast. In fact, along with Cities Skylines, we can only think of Tropico 5 and Civilization Revolution but they are all very different games. The question is, is it any good?Perhaps the first thing that needs to be noted is that there aren’t many games of this type already on the console.
With very positive reviews following its launch and strong sales on PC, Tantalus Media has brought it to the Xbox One. However, the most recent release of the franchise in 2013 saw significant backlash from fans and just two years later, seeing an opportunity, publisher Paradox Interactive released Cities: Skylines. Each iteration brought new dynamics and an ever-increasing set of tools by which you could mould your growing city. If you were to go back a few years, SimCity dominated the city building genre.