City Life
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From superb villas in residential neighborhoods 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 adequate leisure and entertainment facilities, all the while ensuring that taxes and other charges are collected efficiently. It’s up to you to manage this city effectively, ensuring booming development while at the same time regulating the very delicate issues of pollution and traffic. You must also see that diverse communities share the city in the best way possible to guarantee a peaceful and prosperous city. City Life is a next-generation City Builder in real-time 3D. The 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre. Among the game’s superior features are highly realistic environments, reflection mapping, a tree engine, dynamic shadowing, and an immersion mode (giving players the first-person point of view as they advance through cities). City Life is a unique game experience and an exciting new challenge for City Builder’s many fans. To give you total freedom of construction, City Life has also eliminated the need to build on a right-angle grid the way most City Builders require you to do. The flexibility and amazing potential of the 3D game engine let you create incredibly complex installations. This impacts the graphics—because you can get a full overview of the heterogeneous city—and it also affects game play since you can place every building precisely where you want it, keeping in mind the areas of influence for each requirement as well as the natural environment. It’s all very nice to erect superb 21st Century cities, but you also need to see that the game’s diverse communities coexist in harmony. Because often it is through diversity that a city’s greatest richness is born. The six communities introduced in the game either just coexist, like each other, or hate each other! In City Life, not only must you worry about the infrastructure and development of your city, you must also take into consideration the needs and expectations of your population. As a guru of urban planning, your political role is to ensure as best as possible the coexistence of the six socio-professional and/or social groups: the elite, the bobos, the suits, the fringe, the blue collars, and the have-nots. The progress of each “tribe” depends upon available jobs and housing as well as their six basic needs: business, health, safety, education, the environment and leisure activities. Each group is defined by their expectations and requirements which are of varying importance to them. Depending upon these factors, the various communities can make progress and evolve, thereby changing classes and reaching the “upper” strata of society. If you fail, you will see before your eyes the results of your meddling: conflict, riots, burned-out neighborhoods, and even worse. |
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Genres: Simulation Release Date: 2000-1-31 Developer: Monte Cristo Publisher: CDV Software ESRB: Everyone 10+ Official Website |
System Requirements System: 1.5 GHz Processor or equivalentRAM: 256 MB Video Memory: 64 MB Hard Drive Space: 2500 MB |
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City Life is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre and 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 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. What is new in 2008 version? * 60 buildings * 10 maps * Possibility to import real life satellite maps * Enriched and improved BCE Features * Play in Scenario or Free mode and explore 37 maps in five different environments * Experience an unprecedented level of detail and animation in the City Builder genre. * With 360° camera rotation and zooming, you can dive into the heart of your city to observe its inhabitants. * Track income and spending within the city and refine the infrastructure for maximum efficiency. * 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 Neighbourhood * A complete map editor. A powerful building creation tool based on a modular system. The tool contains 166 construction kits for more than 3,000 available elements. No technical skill required, only your imagination. |
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Product Type: Expansions |
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Genres: Simulation Release Date: 2008-7-29 Developer: Paradox Interactive Publisher: CDV Software ESRB: Teen Official Website |
System Requirements OS: Windows 2000/XP/VistaCPU: 2.5 GHz Processor RAM: 256 MB Video: 64MB 3d graphic card Sound: Direct X9.0c Compatible HDD: 4.5 GB |
