If you wonder whether to pick up this edition or just the base-game, of the additional content that comes with this edition, the artbook is quite nice, including some "making-of" info, and the novel is an enjoyable read.
The concept is interesting, and not the first turn-based game I played. I found the game-play to be dragging on a bit too much tho. Game works fine in itself tho.
I usually like tycoon-type games. This one didn't engage me tho - perhaps since there doesn't seem to be progress of "building up" a studio. There still is some game-play to be had tho.
Pretty much the same as the prequel, with the campaign this time not having any narration and just being a bunch of short rinse-repeat levels, and more expensive at that. Game is functional tho, so that's one star extra.
After several DLCs which focused pretty much on "boxed-in" content, I was hoping for freshness for sea-side cities with this DLC. And well, while this DLC comes with some nice content, it seems somewhat lacklustre, as there is nothing like yacht-harbor, house-boats, local cruises, water-sports, and similarly. Due to that I would put this DLC rather low on a list of which C:S DLCs to get.
This DLC puts some focus on content for pedestrians, which is great. The 4 types of park also add more variety to the city, and the DLC comes with 5 new maps.
The content of this DLC is well made, and it makes the city look more interesting. However, while there are several faculties to add city-bonus, the campuses are somewhat disconnected to the city, as they don't even require a mass-transportation connection nor add visitors to a festival area nearby. And this can be easily blamed on the DLC-model as such, whereas a sequel could be focusing more on integrating such content within the base-game, but seems a pity that there is little incentive to use a campus on a new map, instead of the base-game university.
As player, one may need to take a closer look to understand how logistics work in-game. But once that is clear, with this DLC one can build up some nice industry areas.
Very enjoyable game. Requires setting up a bit of infrastructure before the first humans can arrive, with each play-through offering different sci-fi story - making the game quite different to being "just a city-sim in a space setting".
This edition comes with the DLCs, of which especially "Green planet" does nicely expand on the game-play.
Well, not exactly realistic, as real-life Berlin is these days home rather to call-centers than to HQs of corporations - and a bit more focus on "education" would have been more realistic (with Prussian Berlin having been quite a place for that, with professors such as Prussian citizen Albert Einstein, before he was chased out by Germans who were struggling to even figure out what end of a cow fodder goes in). Nevertheless, in context of the game as such, this DLC adds even more enjoyable content.
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