“The most realistic city simulation ever.” This is how the developers of Colossal Order announce city skylines 2, city building simulation game. Eight years after the launch of the first work published by Paradox Interactive, its successor is expected for October 24.
In a blog post published on Monday, its designers returned to the evolution of the game’s development and to an essential point in the management of any city: the economic system. You learn to manage your resources and make your city prosper. And the least we can say is that everything has been designed to “look real”.
Construct buildings and businesses, roads and bridges, rotate your city to attract new residents, these will not be the only essential elements of this city builder. It will also be necessary to manage the finances of the city, its resources, those of its inhabitants so that they are not left idle.
Poverty and homelessness are to be expected
Because the creators have planned everything, although they explain that they wanted to develop a “complete and complex system without making it too complicated to manage.” In case of mismanagement, it is not only the city that will end up in debt. Your houses too. Developers have injected catastrophic events like cascading economic problems that can affect businesses and the city and push its people into unemployment, crisis, and homelessness.
Because the game will react to your decisions. Poorly maintained roads? There is a high risk of traffic accidents, but the AI of the game will make sure to give priority to emergency vehicles. Pollution threatens if you clean your streets poorly or if your factories are too polluting.
Colossal Order explains that the AI will also be a valuable help in the daily management of the homes that come to settle in the city. Everything will be done for your happiness, even the automatic activation of your races if they run out. But it’s the player’s initial choices that will have an influence, good or bad. If its members cannot find decent or close work, or spend too much and can no longer pay the rent, they will have to move to a new place or to another city, risking losing everything and finding themselves at home. ., tilting the neighborhood toward less rosy prospects and extreme poverty.
It is therefore a fairly dense and ultra-realistic economic system that announces itself in city skylines 2. But the developers promise that everything possible will be done to avoid spending hours manipulating the financial tables in order to better focus on building. how do you remember Business InsiderColossal Order has also considered Generation Z in their philosophy and thinking.
“For teens, the most important factor is money: they look for cheap options when they travel, whether it’s in transportation or parking,” the developers explained in a previous blog post. Therefore, the possible bankruptcy of populations of this age is expected if the infrastructures do not meet their needs.
competitor of sim city the launch of Cities Skylines in 2015, city skylines 2 it goes even further in its management, but also in its 3D street modeling, very close to a Google Streetview. The realism of a modern city will be at stake, therefore, both in its finances and in the philosophy applied to make its city grow… or sink it.
CITIES SKYLINES 2 – Available for PS5, Xbox Series X⎜S, and PC on October 24, 2023.
Source: BFM TV
