City Life World Edition

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• Every element of the city's design is under your control - create everything from ultra-modern skyscrapers to old-fashioned style villas
• Work out the logistics for municipal services, education, entertainment and more
• Use planning and management to maintain the complex city infrastructure
• Try to keep peace and harmony between the 6 different social classes in the city
• Once your city is complete, walk its streets like any other citizen - or zoom out for a wide, overall view of the action

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MKF2FG
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: January 29, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,113 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

City Life World Edition gives you the opportunity to build and manage a modern day metropolis in a fully 3D world. Make decisions that will affect the lives of millions of citizens, for better or worse. You're the urban planner and real estate developer, creating a metropolitan paradise from dozens of beautifully rendered structures. Build and manage the city of your dreams! Custom map editor lets you expand on the 22 included maps, for near limitless replay

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A challenging and satisfying game, May 27, 2007

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L. G. Mills (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: City Life World Edition (Video Game)

As a long-time player of SimCity, I was attracted to City Life World Edition because of both its similarities to SimCity and its differences.
At first, City Life World Edition appears to be a bit simplistic, but it is far from that. Building a city of millions of people in a wide variety of terrains and climates, while not spending all of your funds on the necessary infrastructure, is very challenging and very rewarding. The game offers a sandbox mode, but the scenarios provide a "gold key" upon winning, and the gold key opens up new maps.
The beautiful graphical interface allows the player to walk around the city at a zoom level that provides amazing detail. Watch your inhabitants as they go about their day, and view first-hand the effect your city design has on them.
There is now a Vista patch for this game, and it runs smoothly under Vista Home Premium on my computer. Running it on Windows XP SP2 is also trouble-free, in my experience. No game will ever run perfectly for everyone, though, but I have had no problems with it.
The Building Customization Editor (which enables the user to create his/her own buildings and import them into the game) is convoluted and basically without documentation. The Map Editor is also difficult to use. But given the fact that the building and map editors are not part of the core game, I have given this game a 5-star rating for its beautiful graphics, unique features, and endless possibilities for either easy or challenging play.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simcity on Drugs, October 23, 2007

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Mike "Movie Buff" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: City Life World Edition (Video Game)

This game has a lot of promise. For anyone that likes the SimCity Franchise this game takes an interesting turn and mostly succeeds. It gets a little overwhelming when the news crew lets you know that the social classes that cant stand each other are living near each other.
This game has great graphics (if Simcity4k had these graphics it would be the best and tough to beat).
The main focus of this game is to build a city in each of the regions. You must balance out the residences where people live, commerce where people work in stores and office buildings and industies where people work in the factories. You can choose from several differnt types of building in each of the zones. The twist that the developers put in this game is the 6 social classes. You have to create a city that is economically stable (watch your finances) and allows the peaceful coexistance of your social classes.
I do miss the random zone generator from Simcity4k. I wasnt too thrilled with players actually placing buildings in your city. I liked the zoning and letting your city dictate what building go where. I was also looking for a little more depth in transportation and it would of been nice to see actual working traffic lights that you can manipulate to allow a better traffic flow.
I'ma realism nut and would like more content and more micromanagement (these are my pet peeves). Seeing more lifelike buildings and a much better City Hall could of increased this games appeal. In other words...a little more detail. The original City Life was very buggy as I was constantly being thrown off the game and onto my desktop. This game loaded great and never had any problems. Make sure StarForce is not the copy protected program on this game. StarForce has been known to destroy DVD and CDRW drives making them not work. All in all this is a good game but it's missing something.
If Simcity 4k and City Life World Edition merged then it would be the best city simulator ever. Lets hope SimcitySocieties is what this is in disguise (both City Life: WE and SC4K). Im skeptical though.
If you like city building games then this one is a decent alternative to SC4k. I play SC4k more though :-)

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Twist on "Sim City", February 12, 2007

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John P Bernat (Kingsport, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: City Life World Edition (Video Game)

Well, this game is, pretty much, "Sim City." If you liked Sim City 4, you'd like this game, too.

The twist, though, is that six types of social groups inhabit the city, and these groups may or may not get along. You end up needing all six types to develop your sity to its full potential, so you have to figure out, via city design or other strategies, how to assure that they don't fight with one another.

It's a fun game, and has more than the usual subtleties to it. The version I got had a few language glitches, but runs pretty well. I recommend it for those starved for good sim games lately...like me.