Cities: Skylines - PlayStation 4 Edition

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  1. Swagforever
    Aug 9, 2023
    5
    Pros:
    Fun game with lots to build and customise. Not had any graphical issues or crashes.
    Full control over saves.

    Cons:
    Controls are inconsistent.
    Icons are not obvious and there is no way to see what some of them mean without Googling it.
    Few glitches with traffic and hydrodams.
    No undo option.
  2. Can_Burnaz
    Apr 27, 2023
    10
    This game should be the game of the year. I’ve played this game for 678 hours. And i always found this game awesome
  3. BastianCL
    Aug 29, 2022
    7
    Un juego que logra engancharte pero aun así le falta contenido a pesar de los años que tiene.
  4. krasnysoldat38
    Mar 19, 2022
    8
    You can spend hours playing this game and never notice it. It's a great game and the controls are well-adapted for controllers. However, I dislike the lack of variety in buildings and how every extra feature is a paid DLC.
  5. novembr
    Feb 28, 2022
    8
    Runs very well on PS4. Only seems to have a hiccup in performance when zooming in/out as it adjusts detail levels. Controls are as good as it can get for a controller, I suppose. I have no problems building and finding everything. A few elements are oddly place in the menus, but overall no big deal once you get the hang of it. It's a great game, even without mods.
  6. fabgo
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    This game is absolutely terrible on PS5. Much worse than the PC edition. There is aliasing everywhere. Resolution is super low, it all looks pixelated. And on top of that the game is broken in so many ways. The store is not working. Expansions that I bought with the game were not recognized. The home page shows these error pop-ups, etc.
  7. Steinimk
    Jan 29, 2021
    0
    Sooooo many bugs when you pass 60k population. Dead people everywhere and noone picking them up...
  8. VirgonoShaka
    Jan 18, 2021
    8
    The best city building game comes to consoles, and at least in PS4 is... actually quite good. Even very good I may say! The game runs very well even in a day one ps4 and the UI while not the best way of playing this type of game, is very well optimized for a control. Add that to quite the substantial DLC collection, and an addictive amount of content and style of gameplay and you get aThe best city building game comes to consoles, and at least in PS4 is... actually quite good. Even very good I may say! The game runs very well even in a day one ps4 and the UI while not the best way of playing this type of game, is very well optimized for a control. Add that to quite the substantial DLC collection, and an addictive amount of content and style of gameplay and you get a game that can consume a lot of time. If you're like me and don't have a PC that can run this, check out this version, it lives up to it's original brother. For everyone else that do have a PC, What are you waiting for? Buy this and construct the city you wished (or dreaded) living in.… Expand
  9. RusFlexMen
    Jan 6, 2021
    8
    Могу сказать, что это очень хороший градостроитель. Особенно с даже 3-мя или 4-мя дополнениями игра становится в несколько раз интереснее. Затягивает на множество часов. Хорошо подойдёт для расслабления вечерком после тяжёлого дня. Присутствует несколько багов в основных механиках. Также разработчикам надо сильно доработать вид перемещения за человека или машину, иногда можно пройти сквозьМогу сказать, что это очень хороший градостроитель. Особенно с даже 3-мя или 4-мя дополнениями игра становится в несколько раз интереснее. Затягивает на множество часов. Хорошо подойдёт для расслабления вечерком после тяжёлого дня. Присутствует несколько багов в основных механиках. Также разработчикам надо сильно доработать вид перемещения за человека или машину, иногда можно пройти сквозь дома, объекты и т.д. Физика вождения, да и ходьбы на очень ужасном уровне. Для получения удовольствия нужно немало потратиться, но это может сильно убить время. (language - Russian)… Expand
  10. MissDove
    Nov 22, 2020
    7
    Nice visuals and graphics make the city look alive. A lot parameters and info. However, everything is too easy to manage (just build the specific service building and the problem is gone). The only challenging aspect of the game is traffic management. In short, the game is fun at first, but everything becomes too repetitive and tedious after a few hours of gameplay. Additionally, I am notNice visuals and graphics make the city look alive. A lot parameters and info. However, everything is too easy to manage (just build the specific service building and the problem is gone). The only challenging aspect of the game is traffic management. In short, the game is fun at first, but everything becomes too repetitive and tedious after a few hours of gameplay. Additionally, I am not huge fan of having to pay hundreds of dollars for expansion in order to get the full experience of the game.… Expand
  11. Kowbrad
    Oct 16, 2020
    7
    I would like to say that a city building game is relaxing, but its not. There are a lot of things to keep track of so its the perfect game to take your mind of someting stressful and fill it up with the stress of being a mayor. I would put 8 if not for a glitch that again stresses me out. The shops will ask for educated workers and you cant do anything about it. Customisablilty is veryI would like to say that a city building game is relaxing, but its not. There are a lot of things to keep track of so its the perfect game to take your mind of someting stressful and fill it up with the stress of being a mayor. I would put 8 if not for a glitch that again stresses me out. The shops will ask for educated workers and you cant do anything about it. Customisablilty is very great placing streets fells good and you placing houses as you expect is great. And walking trouth your city is awsome. Also when you get a new level you have new buildings which you have to place immediately so remember to keep 40 000 dolarus in your pocket.… Expand
  12. Markos-
    Oct 14, 2020
    7
    It succesfully clones the Sim City mechanics and ideas, and even improves some of them. The graphics are obviously nicer and it overall is a sleek and fluid experience, considering that we are using a PS4 controller to manage so many aspects of a city.
    I had fun building one city up to around 80k population but after that I felt I had seen everything the game had to offer. It will bring    It succesfully clones the Sim City mechanics and ideas, and even improves some of them. The graphics are obviously nicer and it overall is a sleek and fluid experience, considering that we are using a PS4 controller to manage so many aspects of a city.
    I had fun building one city up to around 80k population but after that I felt I had seen everything the game had to offer. It will bring good memories back if you used to play Sim City for PC back in the days!    … Expand
  13. Ruzaky
    Sep 4, 2020
    8
    Controls very good, works ok, but if you zoom in and out there some hard pop in textures.
  14. ToshLichev
    Jul 15, 2020
    5
    As someone who isn't a fan of the genre I walked into Cities: Skylines convinced I'll be pretty bored. After the first hour and a half I realized I was actually having a bit of fun... and then the metrick **** of micromanagement hit me and I started feeling less and lees joy and more and more frustration and tedium with every new problem that I had to manage in my city. For me this is aAs someone who isn't a fan of the genre I walked into Cities: Skylines convinced I'll be pretty bored. After the first hour and a half I realized I was actually having a bit of fun... and then the metrick **** of micromanagement hit me and I started feeling less and lees joy and more and more frustration and tedium with every new problem that I had to manage in my city. For me this is a great game to play for 2 hours and pick it up again in 3 months for another 2 hours if you have nothing else to do. However I do realize that, at least in my opinion, it manages to do what is expected of it fairly well and for that I can't rate it too low - it's 100% not for me, but the people who it's meant for will probably enjoy it.… Expand
  15. Cafe_8bits
    Jul 6, 2020
    9
    Cities Skylines is the definitive city simulator. Teaching the player without being too punitive, while also encouraging us to experiment with its mechanics and tools, its a game that i spent countless hours through.
  16. joel_tdl
    Jun 30, 2020
    8
    Una Sorpresa Para Bien

    JUGABILIDAD: Como en todos los juegos del género está más que claro que la plataforma a la que va destinado es a PC. Aún así han hecho un buen trabajo adaptando los controles al DualShock 4, resultando así es una buena experiencia jugable. Podemos designar las áreas sin problemas (ya sea punto por punto, o colorear un área totalmente), y en ningún momento se    Una Sorpresa Para Bien

    JUGABILIDAD:
    Como en todos los juegos del género está más que claro que la plataforma a la que va destinado es a PC. Aún así han hecho un buen trabajo adaptando los controles al DualShock 4, resultando así es una buena experiencia jugable.

    Podemos designar las áreas sin problemas (ya sea punto por punto, o colorear un área totalmente), y en ningún momento se nos pasa la mano de hasta dónde queremos delimitar ciertos aspectos de nuestra ciudad (las carreteras, por ejemplo), ya que el juego tiene excelente precisión.

    Tenemos todas las áreas, servicios y edificios clásicos que encontramos en cualquier juego de construcción de ciudades, así como el típico sistema de contaminación, alcance de servicios, impuestos, contento o descontento de los pobladores, etc.
    Nada que no se haya visto antes, pero tampoco es que sea muy necesario.

    Los menús son accesibles y muy claros en la información que muestran, que es mucha, puesto que en Cities: Skylines podremos controlar prácticamente todos los aspectos de la ciudad. Pero eso no lo vuelve cansino, sino que le aumenta una complejidad interesantísima.

    Como punto negativo, debo decir que algunas veces se me quedó trabado por unos segundos, nada grave pero sí es molesto e interrumpe la inmersión en la construcción.

    GRÁFICOS:
    Para mí este es el apartado menos importante en juego como éste, puesto que no me importa como se vea la ciudad. Me importa el como "funciona" la ciudad.

    Aún así me ha sorprendido para bien. El estilo visual es agradable y los niveles de zoom, tanto en acercamiento como en alejamiento, son lo suficientemente amplios para poder ajustarlos a nuestro gusto o necesidad.
    La ciudad de noche puede verse visualmente atractiva, pero no es muy apta para jugar así.

    SONIDO:
    El juego cuenta con una especie de configuración de emisoras. Las escuché por poco tiempo y, aunque admito que es un buen añadido, lo cierto es que me parece más una distracción al estilo de jugabilidad de un juego de construcción/simulación. Se agradece, aunque yo me quedó con los clásicos "sonidos de ciudad" que vienen por defecto.
    Aunado a eso, la emisoras son pocas. Pero, como ya dije, lo cierto es que no "tenían" porqué hacerlo, así que el añadido se siente muy bien.

    INNOVACIÓN:
    Fuera de éste titulo, mis acercamientos a juegos de Simulación de ciudad se han limitado a varios títulos de SimCity. No distingo aquí una gran innovación, pero tampoco creo que sea necesario. C:S es un buen juego, que hace lo propio y lo hace muy bien, pero en este punto no creo que se pueda mejorar mucho el género.    … Expand
  17. fallacies8899
    Jun 19, 2020
    4
    This game is not good at explaining how to do things or what you're doing wrong when things go south. Of course you can go watch youtube videos that explain but I don't think I should have to do that to learn a game. Plus it kind of spoils the fun when you do that.
  18. Therealsswager
    May 29, 2020
    10
    This is the best city builder game in the world, it is well worth buying all the DLCs. Over all I would give it higher that 10/10.
  19. CitySpellsword
    May 28, 2020
    1
    Gameplay is dull and grindy. I'd hoped after putting in the time to learn the game despite its awful tutorial, it would be worth it. But it's just painfully boring.
  20. Menni
    Apr 27, 2020
    9
    Innamorato dei titoli di questo genere sono restato incollato parecchie ore davanti alla console. Titolo molto interessante e complesso soprattutto per quanto riguarda la gestione del traffico
  21. Biglad7ft2
    Apr 3, 2020
    10
    Love the game however I find the add-ons are sometimes expensive for what they are but I have spent hours on this games and tbh I still haven't got a city perfect
  22. tomvs123
    Mar 16, 2020
    6
    This is essentially old-school SimCity, but modernized, which is great if you like SimCity.

    I played through the standard game and there's not much point to it besides building the city you want, while keeping your citizens happy. There's not a lot of challenge to it, but I don't think that's the point. Some thing are simplified compared to what I remember from SimCity, such as water    This is essentially old-school SimCity, but modernized, which is great if you like SimCity.

    I played through the standard game and there's not much point to it besides building the city you want, while keeping your citizens happy. There's not a lot of challenge to it, but I don't think that's the point.

    Some thing are simplified compared to what I remember from SimCity, such as water and electricity delivery. Water pipes can be built in the general area of buildings, and you'll rarely need to build power lines - power is transmitted automatically between close buildings.

    And then the road and traffic system is greatly complicated, and is the only true challenge in the game. Garbage trucks, hearses, resource trucks, goods trucks, and all of your citizens must transport themselves along set routes. And if there's too much traffic, they'll be late. This causes your stores to close, garbage to pile up, the dead to pile up, industries to stop producing, and stops your power plants from getting fuel. So you'll learn early on that filling every square inch of the map with buildings, while using the smallest road size is a bad idea.

    After you get over the traffic and road-building learning curve, it's smooth sailing from then-on-out. You can just keep building until you can unlock the best buildings, that do things like reduce all pollution, educate all citizens, and power your entire city.

    Maybe I'm just naturally good at it, but I quickly had more money than I knew what to do with, even with tax cuts and polices in place that decreased revenue in favor of citizen happiness. Although there was this one time when I built a dam in the wrong place in a nearly map-filled city and it ended up flooding everything. Even though there were buildings destroyed and people were leaving, they just kept coming back, so it was barely an inconvenience.

    So yeah, great for those who want a sandbox city builder, but not so great for those seeking story modes or game-set goals.    … Expand
  23. 13freedom13
    Feb 28, 2020
    9
    This is a great city building game the only other city building game that can rival it is Simcity
  24. Justzajda
    Feb 7, 2020
    10
    I love the game, it lets you explore your imagination and create a Utopia that you want. You can turn on unlimited money but it is more fun playing the normal way.
  25. gobarbedo
    Jan 2, 2020
    8
    This is an amazing game, with a flawless gameplay, but the graphics are not good. This game is the real deal simulation games about cities.
  26. Sylaman
    Nov 11, 2019
    7
    The game is the best city-planning and city-building simulator ever. I wish we meet more unexpected developments, disasters, force majeure circumstances and something like that. It would make game more entertaining because sometimes it becomes boring and you put it aside for a month or two and then come back.
  27. MissDaisy
    Nov 9, 2019
    5
    Basically a sweet game, but: more than once my city was shrinking and I had no clue why. There are no advisors. Why? Why would a real mayor not have any advisors? Examples:
    - people are dying, no clue why. (the pollution panel helped in the end but it was too late)
    - corpses don't get picked up although there are dozens of cemetaries, crematories and money (I never figured that one out)    Basically a sweet game, but: more than once my city was shrinking and I had no clue why. There are no advisors. Why? Why would a real mayor not have any advisors? Examples:
    - people are dying, no clue why. (the pollution panel helped in the end but it was too late)
    - corpses don't get picked up although there are dozens of cemetaries, crematories and money (I never figured that one out)
    - people are sick (no clue why)
    - Industry complains they don't have customers (how do I get those? Building new apartments close to it did not work)
    - shops need "raw materials" (a tech shop - what would it need? The game doesn't tell you)

    So, the game is fun but as soon as there is a problem, you are dead. Civilization has advisors, Sim City has advisors, why not this game?    … Expand
  28. MagasTheKing
    Jul 17, 2019
    10
    Вообще огонь! Градостоительный симулятор на PS4!
    Обо мне: олдфаг, >30
    Cities Skylines релизнулся в 2015 году и сразу обошел единственного, но сильного конкурента в лице такого гранда как Sim City. Это фанатский, но качественный продукт, поэтому если ты не знаком с такими симуляторами, но ищешь нового игрового опыта - добро пожаловать! Осторожно - можно залипнуть! Время в игре летит    Вообще огонь! Градостоительный симулятор на PS4!
    Обо мне: олдфаг, >30

    Cities Skylines релизнулся в 2015 году и сразу обошел единственного, но сильного конкурента в лице такого гранда как Sim City. Это фанатский, но качественный продукт, поэтому если ты не знаком с такими симуляторами, но ищешь нового игрового опыта - добро пожаловать!

    Осторожно - можно залипнуть! Время в игре летит не заметно и поиграв несколько часов будешь искать возможность вернуться в игру, прокручивая в голове что ты сделал не так и как построить новый город или новый район.
    На плойке нет таких игр - нет альтернатив. Это единственный представить жанра. Есть Тропико, но это другое. Я испытывал много опасений, как я буду играть в это на консоли? Тем более на ПК играл и играл много. Но я ставлю 10, потому что играть на консоли оказалось даже комфортнее.
    Игра не новая, обзоров много. Поэтому рассказывать подробно что это такое и как играется смысла нет. Жалко, что такие игры появляются на плойке сильно поздно, чем на пк.

    Брать / не брать?
    Я брал по скидке, печально шарясь по магазину в поисках во чтобы такое новое поиграть. Новое именно в плане новизны игрового процесса - не шутер, не гонки, не танки, не приключения. Если есть интерес - пробуйте, думаю вам понравится.

    Объективно от фаната игр парадоксов и подобных жанров:
    Игра не 10, она на 6. Еще в год релиза, ты играешь с восторгом первые часов 20, а потом понимаешь, что далеко не все так идеально. Учитывая, что играл во все части SimCty. Но при этом, она как минимум не уступает последней части SimCity, а как максимум - на уровень выше.

    Если ты играл в серии Total War и Civilization - то тебе понравится Cities Skylines. Это не проходняк, а качественный нишевый продукт.    … Expand
  29. Crondog
    Dec 30, 2018
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I gave this a 10 to balance out the pc guy that gave it a 0. For a console city building game it’s by far the best out there, I’d say ever (for PlayStation or Xbox).If you grew up in sim city as a kid and never found anything close on a console, this is it. Controls are great when you get used to them, there’s so much depth involved you really can do anything (at least anything more than you ever could in console city building). Now I just got this on sale for $30 all dlcs included, for that price %100 worth it. I think the bad review may come from people who spent $70 plus dlc which then I would give it a 6/10. But for $30 for game and all dlc $10/10. Couldnt ask for a better city building game for that price. So overall....don’t pay $70 with no dlc, but if you can get it for $30-$40 with dlc totallly worth it… Expand
  30. Calibur-X
    Oct 5, 2018
    0
    The ps4 version is full of bugs, better get the switch version, it works perfectly
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

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  1. CGMagazine
    Dec 19, 2017
    90
    Cities: Skylines is definitely a must-own for fans of the genre, or gamers with a nostalgic itch for SimCity that EA certainly won’t scratch.
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  2. PlaySense
    Aug 25, 2017
    80
    A surprisingly superb PC port, Cities: Skylines nevertheless doesn't include all DLC, which makes the otherwise great package feel somewhat incomplete.
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  3. PlayStation Country
    Aug 23, 2017
    80
    Cities: Skylines – PlayStation 4 Edition is a great port of a great game. If you just want to sit down and build a city from scratch then this gives you a lot of control over how you want your city to look and operate. If you want a more guided experience then you may struggle to stay motivated but there's no doubt that watching your city grow and prosper is a worthwhile and rewarding experience.
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