Cities XL releases new screenshots in preparation for beta

by Shawn Schuster on Jun 15th 2009 4:00PM

Betas, Galleries, Screenshots, MMO industry, New titles

Monte Cristo has just released a few new screenshots for their upcoming city-builder MMO, Cities XL. Of course, we've talked about Cities XL in the past, including a few interviews with the team, and we're very excited to see the game progressing so well.

With a closed beta coming soon, and a launch later this year in France and Germany (crossing our fingers for the global release soon after!), all city-builder fans should be ramping up their excitement levels just a bit. These seven new screenshots included in our gallery below might help with that. Check them out, as well as our previous coverage of the game for more information.

Cities XL

Tags: beta, cities-xl, closed-beta, monte-cristo, screenshots

Reader Comments (6)

Won't lie, that is pretty!

But how does it play?..

No idea, it doesn't sound like my kind of game, but the screenshots are nice.

It's a city builder (like Sim City) but with an optional MMO part (where the city is saved online and you can trade with / visit other cities).

I just figured out what bothers me in those screenshots.

They are beautiful don't get me wrong... but there is a TON of foliage missing. I live in Atlanta, and you can drive around anywhere downtown and see trees all over the place. On street corners, in mediums, overhanging sidewalks.

There "trees/bushes/plants" that I see in the screenshots is almost nothing.

Anyone else agree/disagree with my observation on "RL" cities?

Maybe it doesn't look like Atlanta, but it doesn't mean you couldn't make a city that did. The screenshot could be any number of cities I've visited. Parts of Prague look like that, for instnace.

With all the user-generated content for Simcity 4 you could make pretty much anything you wanted. Most of the MMO aspects of Cities XL have me really excited to play (fingers crossed for beta) but if there isn't a robust enough base for users to create buildings and other assets I don't see why I should quit Simcity 4.

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