Product Description

City Life is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre and total freedom of construction.

From superb villas in residential neighbourhoods to imposing skyscrapers in the financial district, design, construct and develop the city of your dreams. Provide comfort and satisfaction for your citizens by offering them work, health care, entertainment facilities, and much more and ensure that your city's coffers are brimming. It's up to you to manage this city efficiently, ensuring booming development while at the same time regulating the very delicate issues of pollution and traffic. Let peace reign between the six unique subcultures, or pay the price if the situation deteriorates into conflict, riots, and, in the worst-case scenario, fires.

• Play in Scenario or Free mode and explore 37 maps in five different environments
• Experience an unprecedented level of detail and animation in the City Builder genre
• With 360-degree camera rotation and zooming, you can dive into the heart of your city to observe its inhabitants
• Track income and spending within the city and refine the infrastructure for maximum efficiency
• Ensure that the six subcultures share the city in the best way possible to guarantee peace and prosperity
• Satisfy the eight basic needs for each inhabitant - Work, Shopping, Health, Safety, Education, Leisure Activities, Quality of Life and Neighbourhood
• A complete map editor
• A powerful building creation tool based on a modular system - the tool contains 166 construction kits for more than 3,000 available elements. No technical skill required, only your imagination!

New Content for 2008 Edition:

• An additional 60 building
• 10 new maps
• Import real-world satellite maps

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4492 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ASCARON Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
• Released on: 2008-02-22
• Platform: Windows XP

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City Life 2008 takes the city building genre into the 21st century with a powerful 3D engine and a variety of gameplay features. In the game, players take on the role of urban planner and real estate developer, creating a metropolitan paradise from dozens of beautifully rendered structures - including elaborately crafted villas and ultra-modern skyscrapers.

The graphics engine allows players to walk the streets of their cities, or zoom out to multiple levels for a better view of the overall action. City Life 2008 provides the full city building experience!

Manufacturer's Description

City Life 2008 takes the city building genre into the 21st century with a powerful 3D engine and a variety of gameplay features. In the game, players take on the role of urban planner and real estate developer, creating a metropolitan paradise from dozens of beautifully rendered structures - including elaborately crafted villas and ultra-modern skyscrapers.

The graphics engine allows players to walk the streets of their cities, or zoom out to multiple levels for a better view of the overall action. City Life 2008 provides the full city building experience!

Customer Reviews

Great City sim
This is a very good game its very fun to play if you are into city building and simulation like games. The visuals good as you can also zoom in and look at your metropolis in first person to take in all the details like people walking the streets having conversations or arguments, watch fire crews tackle burning buildings or just look at traffic being bumper to bumper in rush hour.

Its a great game but if you already have the previous version of City Life then it may not be worth getting as thats the real reason for some of the negative reviews it does not have much new content over the previous version you also likeone other reviewer has said going to need a fairly powerful viedo card i tried this game on an Nvidia 7300LE and it was very slow but once i got a 9600GT it ran perfectly smoothly so a decent video card may be needed

Forget SimCity, this is the game you've been waiting for!
This is an amazing game. If you've played city builders since Sim City 1 and been disappointed by the later versions because they railroad you in terms of what's possible, poor graphics and dumb politics...prepare to be amazed by CL 2008.

This European take on the SC universe looks stunning and allows you, finally, to drive around your own city a la GTA San Andreas. People have little dramas going on and you can see roads, shops, schools, sunsets, nightscapes and parks all come to life in first person glory...or zoom out to see glistening mountains and rivers.

The city sounds are breathtakingly real and immersive.

The game is a bit buggy, but nowhere near as some reviews would have you believe (most poor reviews are for the 2005 version and this version has over 350 buildings and is much improved).

It's such fun the play for hours and hours you'll forgive the little rough edges. The social structure has a real European flavour (not the rapacious mercenary dog-eat-dog politics of the Sim City world) and driving round your own city is joyous.

Buy this game, you'll be delighted.

A game destroyed by its list of bugs and errors
I have a very competent laptop that i've enjoyed playing games such as Supreme Commander, Company of Heroes and Battlestations Midway. I become very intrested in CityLife after playing through Maxis's SimCity4 and decided to give it a go...and found that i really should have checked the Citylife forums before trying it...
First of all there are problems on Install, the game can't locate files on the CD and copy them over to the computer, it does'nt help that to reach that point on the install takes about 20mins (i kid you not) and then for an error to pop up really chaffs you. On the third install attempt i just kept clicking the 'ignore' error button until (strangely) the game was fully installed...then i tried to run it.
Before i explain you might think the fact that i clicked the reason it does'nt work being that i kept clicking the 'ignore' button during install the reason it did'nt work but that was the ONLY way to get the install to complete + that part of the install related to the CityLife editor which is a seperate game.
Anyway first the game took a few mins to actually load up its starting loading screen complete with a progressing bar. As the game reached 60% the game froze and crashed. It seems this was due to my graphic gard not being able to support 'Pixel shading' or something, there a many other problems i've read of on the forum site, the game clashs with Nortan anti-virus (you have to close the firewall or make the program an exception), Windows Vista (sorted by running as admin in windows 2000 compatability) and a whole range of other bugs (check the forums on the game for more)
Anyway what i'm trying to get across is that this is probably a good game, it was just released before all the bugs were ironed out, i have just ordered SimCity4 deluxe off Amazon now and i recomend anyone intrested in city building games to get that instead unless you are certain your video card (among other things) can run this 'game' i myself wish i could get a refund...
My laptop specs
Intel Core 2 duo processor T7300 (2ghz, 800mhz, 4mb l2 cache)
1024mb ATI mobility radeon HD2300 with HyperMemory
2GB DDR2