City Life is a city-building game that lets the player create a modern city. It is the first modern city-building game to allow the player to work in full 3D environment (the earlier city-builder SimCity 4 was full 3D but camera movement was limited to four fixed angles). The game is by French developer Monte Cristo. It is published in France by Focus, in the UK and Germany by Deep Silver and in North America by CDV. It was released in May 2006.
City Life allows players to zoom in and see every little bit
of detail. The placement method allows buildings to be placed at an
angle, as also seen in Sierra Games' Caesar IV.
More recently, the game has been criticized for lack of many detailed
elements, such as weather, disasters, and more "in depth" user control.
On August 30, 2007, Monte Cristo and Focus announced an upcoming second expansion pack for City Life entitled City Life 2008, saying the expansion would include "60 more buildings, bringing the total to 360, including famous structures such as St Pauls Cathedral, Royal Opera
etc... New scenarios, 10 new maps, and an updated version of the editor
allow you to import satellite maps, as well as import from applications
such as World Machine, or GeoControl." The official release date for
the expansion pack was November 10, 2007. On November 16, 2007, the
release date was pushed back to November 23, 2007. The game was finally
released effective on 15 February 2008. Also, Monte Cristo has confirmed
in 2008, that they would make a City Life game for Nintendo DS.
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System requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7
Processor: Pentium 4 GHz 2.2
Memory: 512 MB (1024 MB for Vista)
Video Card: 64 MB DirectH 9-compatible 3D graphics card (GeForse level 4 and above, except for built-in graphics and MX-series)
Soundcard: compatible with DirectX 9
