Cities: Skylines II Announced for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Game Pass - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 March 2023 / 3,191 Views
Publisher Paradox Interactive and developer Colossal Order have announced Cities: Skylines II for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, and Xbox Game Pass. It will launch in 2023.
View the announcement trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
If you can dream it, you can build it!
Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic scale in the most realistic city builder – ever.
Here your city will evolve and react to your decisions. A dynamic and ever-changing world that is both challenging and rewarding. Use your creativity and strategic planning skills to grow your city into a thriving metropolis that will attract businesses, residents, and tourists alike. From residential neighborhoods to bustling downtowns, the possibilities are endless. Navigate through the complexities of running a city and keep up with the needs and demands of your citizens.
See your city grow and transform over time. With stunning graphics that are as beautiful as they are detailed, Cities: Skylines II will bring your city to life.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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After 500 hours in the first game since 2015 and still going strong, this might just be the game I'm most excited to get my hands on... during this whole decade. Maybe I'm wrong and something else tops this, and maybe the game turns out to be trash, but I couldn't be much more excited!
Feeling the same! :)
Thanks to Maxis essentially hand-balling the City-building genre to Paradox interactive... And considering how amazing the first game was... I expect great things from the sequel.
One improvement I would like to see is a better mod handling system (Plus that functionality on console), because it felt like every update broke mods/addons that I enjoyed.
And with City Sklines 2 not hamstrung by Switch/Xbox One/Playstation 4 hardware, we should see some impressive visuals and simulation quality.
I am super excited it's been announced for PC, PS5 and XSX|S only.
Even more so because I can imagine, that especially a city simulator can benefit impressively of a super fast SSD working in the background.
I am really, really looking forward playing CS:2 on the PS5! Arguably running on sweet Unreal Engine 5.
So great it's coming in 2023!
SSD is a benefit, but not as much as you think, simulators tend to dump everything into DRAM and just mipmap textures on a per needs basis to keep usage low... So there is actually very little streaming or the need for culling.
And with 16GB of DRAM available (13.5GB/8GB for X/S respectively) we should see a massive uptick over base Xbox One/Playstation 4.
But where simulators benefit most is actually on the CPU, the bigger the CPU, the more simulations that can take place for pedestrians, vehicles, utility management, scripting and more.
Also City Skyline 2 will be sticking with Unity, not Unreal Engine 5. - But it will still mean it gets Ray Tracing and other modern effects, Unity has come a long way.
Good to see that more developers are ditching last gen and focusing on current gen games.
Interesting, interesting. First game is great, but sadly hadn't spend as much time with it as I wanted, but will keep an eye on this sequel for sure.
Oh boy, I'm excited.
