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Another expansion to Cities: Skylines - a popular city builder strategy game developed by Colossal Order. As the title might suggest, this add-on allows a player to create environment-friendly cities. Apart from over two hundred new buildings (e.g.
Cities: Skylines – Green Cities for PC is a yet another expansion to Cities: Skylines – a popular city builder strategy game developed by Colossal Order. The expansion for PC requires the base game in order to work.
Mechanics
As the title might suggest, this add-on allows a player to create environment-friendly cities. For this expansion, developers have prepared a wide selection of new attractions, the most prominent one being the set of over two hundred new buildings.
The DLC described herein introduces e.g. shops selling healthy food, photovoltaic cells on the buildings' roofs, as well as electric cars driving on the streets. Also important are the new specializations for particular districts – they can be developed as one progresses through the game. All this is well complemented with four new types of regulations. Moreover, a player can erect a monument to honor their services to the environment.
Even though in Cities: Skylines – Green Cities for PC one can erect entirely new and eco-friendly cities, there is nothing standing on his way to utilize the new solutions for the infrastructures he has already built.
Technical aspects
The PC release of Cities: Skylines – Green Cities does not implement many changes into the game's audiovisuals.
Last updated on September 5, 2017
Videos and Screens
[1:16] Cities: Skylines - Green Cities launch trailer
[1:28] Cities: Skylines - Green Cities Release Date Reveal Trailer
TechRaptor: 6.5 / 10 by Chris Anderson
This expansion pack is for the real fans of the franchise, but it's a bit of a meager offer when compared to previous expansions. There is a decent amount of cool stuff in this expansion, but everything except the new waste disposal options feel all that necessary.
GameWatcher: 8.5 / 10 by Josh Brown
I'll admit, it's taken me this long to feel the need to expand Cities: Skylines above it base offerings. Now I understand why. Each expansion brings heaps of free content to owners of even just the base game, so you might only pick up the full bag if it focuses on what you need. For me, Mass Transit feels unnecessary; whereas for others that may have been all they ever wanted. Green Cities is like sugar in this case. I don't need it, but I want it.
Cubed3: 5 / 10 by Daniel Rivas
Although the newly designed buildings and overall aesthetic differences to Cities Skylines are a welcome change, one cannot help but feel there is a large degree of missed opportunity and overall lost potential, with the aforementioned designs changes as well as the disappointing, and limited new set of maps.
Cities: Skylines - Green Cities Summary
Platforms:
PC / Windows October 19, 2017
PlayStation 4 January 31, 2019
Xbox One January 31, 2019
Developer: Colossal Order
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Cities: Skylines - Green Cities System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz/AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, graphic card 512 MB GeForce GTX 260/Radeon HD 5670 or better, Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 64-bit
Recommended: Intel Core i5-3470 3.20 GHz/AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz, 6 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870 or better, Windows 7/8 64-bit
Base Gamefor Cities: Skylines - Green Cities