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Cities Skylines Natural Disasters PC Download Free

Cities Skylines Natural DisastersI've never missed disasters in Cities: Skylines. Dealing with ramping aliens, Armageddon-initiating asteroids, and visits from giant lizards have long been hallmarks of the SimCity lineage, but the Colossal Order city builder seemed too brusque for such extraordinary developments. This is one of the most authentic city management sims ever due to a focus on things like zoning that makes the game feel awfully close to my day-to-day job as a city mayor in Canada. Throwing in regular outings from Godzilla didn't seem necessary or appropriate. Cities Skylines Natural Disasters Download for PCI didn't know what was missing. The new natural disaster expansion extends the original game's business-like concept with random events such as tornadoes, meteor strikes, wildfires, earthquakes, sinkholes and tidal waves leading to urban flooding. But while these Bible disasters are always appropriately apocalyptic, they are also realistic. Each doomsday is worked into the serious nature of the game as threats that must be managed through careful preparation. The end result is greater tactical depth and excitement in the virtual mayor's office, knowing that everything costs money up here.

Cities Skylines Natural Disasters PC Download

How natural disasters are handled elevates this tragedy above the "punitive disaster" gimmick seen in so many other city builders. Just like in real life, mitigate the impact of disasters via early warning systems and buildings designed to help when the worst happens. Buoys are in place to detect tsunamis and radar dishes can watch out for meteorites. Radio towers can be set up to let the populace know something bad is on the way. Emergency Response Centers bolster existing rosters of police, fire and medical structures and allow first responders to get out of disaster areas. Shelters provide homes for citizens during and immediately after crises while you remove the ruins and rebuild. As with everything else in Cities: Skylines, the need to prepare for disasters feels realistic. It's a welcome contrast to what I was expecting; Other city builders tend to make similar earth-shattering moments a punishment for building a happy, functional community, or artificially increasing the difficulty.

Cities Skylines Natural Disasters PC Download Free
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Cities Skylines Natural Disasters PC

Game Producer:
Colossal Order
Game publisher:
Paradox Interactive
Platform:
PC
Category:
Strategy
Rate:
7/10
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CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 3.2GHz
RAM: 4 GB
OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)
HDD: 4 GB

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How Natural Disasters handles these tragedies elevates it above the “disasters as punishment” gimmick seen in so many other city builders. Just like in real life, you mitigate the impact of disasters via early warning systems and buildings designed to help recover when the worst happens. Cities Skylines Natural Disasters Buoys are available to detect tsunamis, and radar dishes can watch for meteorites. Radio towers can be set up to let the populace know that something bad is on the way. Emergency response centers bolster the existing rosters of police, fire, and medical structures and allow first responders to get out to disaster sites. Shelters provide homes for citizens during and immediately after crises, while you clear away the ruins and rebuild.

As with everything else in Cities Skylines Natural Disasters, the need to prepare for disasters feels realistic. It's a welcome contrast to what I expected; other city builders tend to turn similar earth-shattering moments into a form of punishment for building a happy, functional municipality, or to artificially increase the difficulty.

Cities Skylines Natural Disasters All of these options add an appreciable new layer to Cities: Skylines planning, in both regular games (you can toggle disasters on or off, adjust the frequency in which they occur, or even call them down on demand like Zeus moonlighting as a municipal politician) and in five scenarios structured around specific disasters and goals. Cities Skylines Natural Disasters feel like an organic part of the game that’s been there all along, not some tossed-in and tossed-off gimmick geared to do little more than blow everything up at the most inopportune times.

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