Cities Skylines Remastered Review (PlayStation 5)
For this Cities Skylines Remastered Review, we play a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new gameplay elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city while expanding on some well-established tropes of the city-building experience.
Cities Skylines Remastered Review Pros:
- Decent overhauled and improved graphics.
- 8.89GB Download size.
- Platinum trophy for the main game than a set of trophies for each DLC.
- You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
- Management gameplay.
- A love letter to games like Sim City.
- Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, five control schemes, swap sticks, and swap shoulder buttons.
- Left-handed player support.
- Day night cycle is an option.
- Graphics settings – color correction, grass pollution color, water pollution color, depth of field, depth of field amount slider, film grain amount slider, and anisotropic filtering.
- Map editor – set map theme (Boreal/Tropical/European/Temperate), and city name.
- Two ways to play the main game – A new map (12 locations with individual resources availability, left-hand driving), and a new scenario.
- New game options – dynamic weather, day/night cycle, and cheats.
- The game has many cheats – unlock all milestones, unlimited money, unlimited oil and ore, unlimited soils, and unlock 25 tiles.
- Excellent performance.
- Initial tutorial pop-ups.
- Full camera control.
- Handy radial dial menu system (optional).
- Includes the After DARK DLC.
- Very accessible.
- Easy to build and quick to build with a powerful click system for type/Road placement.
- You can go properly in-depth with roads by adding curves, and angles, raising and lowering them, etc.
- The Eyedropper tool allows you to select something and then instantly recreate it.
- Zones and Districts are set and depending on many factors (placement/other zones etc) you will have buildings spawn in them.
- The drag-and-drop system is employed with certain actions.
- Music is provided by radio and has a handful of stations and you can even have it with ads turned off!
- Zoom right down and watch everyone go about their business.
- The Inspector tool allows you to click anything and get info on it.
- A lot of charts and bars to help you know if you are doing alright.
- Chirper is the in-game version of Twitter and here you learn about your inhabitants.
- Three game speeds that can be tweaked with a button press.
- The game is very in-depth.
- As you don’t have direct control of people and world regeneration it makes every obstacle, every scenario, and even every new map a whole new challenge.
- Infinite replayability.
Cities Skylines Remastered Review Cons:
- Scenarios is a game mode front and center but requires DLC to play.
- Cheats disable trophies.
- It takes a while to get used to all the many moving parts, especially with utilities.
- The game doesn’t do a fantastic job of introducing new players.
- You can easily lose track of what’s going on.
- A huge time investment.
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Cities Skylines Remastered:
Developer: Colossal Order Ltd
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
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