Sadly, City Life's triumphs end after a few hefty play sessions. For example, blue collars infinitely prefer a country bar to a family restaurant found in a fringe neighbourhood, and vice-versa. Zoning neighbourhoods becomes essential to creating a successful city, while catering for their different needs is also crucial. This feature puts a large twist on the tired SimCity formula, and kept us amused in what would otherwise be a fairly by-the-numbers sim game. Sadly, chavs aren't available in the retail game, although we're sure someone's already working on the mod. In City Life, citizens fall in to one of six social classes, ranging from gas-pumping blue collars to limousine-cruising suits. Monte Cristo's effort -as well as offering all the real estate construction and stat management present in Maxis's effort - throws an important twist into the city sim cocktail. The interface is simple but satisfyingly functional all side-bars can be swiftly hidden and city stats are easily popped up with the click of a button.īut this isn't just SimCity with a new flowery dress. From the start you're dropped on an empty stretch of real-estate, tasked with liberally scattering roads and houses until a bustling city rises from the ashes. Obviously, this is where City Life comes in.Īt first glance it doesn't look much different from your average sim game. Tilings would be different if I ran the place - Indian takeaways would be open all hours and friendly tramps would dance for hours in exchange for a shiny nickel. I've Got Many complaints about my home town: the trains are slow, there are too many pensioners and you can never find an open kebab shop when you need one.
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