The original title was "citiesxl platinum" he changed it so pretty much everything i said could be invalid.
He changed it after he seen your first post, as according to your second post on this topic, he already changed it since then. He changed it because he thought the title would be more fitting, not making a megathread about CXL but instead saying that those are his opinions about the game instead. Stop being a richard about this.
Personally, I also enjoyed the game but have been heavily dissapointed by it. Google Cities XL 2010, 2011, 2012 and Platinum separately and try to point out at least 2 differences from the screenshots. Good luck.
Additionally, the game is a massive put-off in terms of optimization. The game does not support multi-core which leads to impossibility of having awesome huge cities (like it's advertised to) if you have a quad-core with small performance/core. This was my city in Cities XL Platinum:
And boy, does it lag like stuff (it does).
The game is a ton better than Simcity in a lot of aspects. The game gives you more freedom, and OP, just so you know, Simcity did the exact same unlock method. It's done this way so you don't have a lot of things you need to get from the start you can't even pay the taxes for. If you really want that, there's a option in the menu where you can enable all buildings for the start.
As for buildings, variety and general pleasure of the game, it's great. The game really makes you look like you are making a city, not a small town. The cities can get huge if your PC supports it and if you can support the economy. The whole simulated trading thing is awesome. You can have multiple cities and they all can work together. Boy, doesn't this sound like Simcity? Anyway. The put-off in this aspect is that there's no multiplayer anymore. Cities XL 2010 (the first) was the only one which had a stable multiplayer and avatar system, but they shut that down completely.
In terms of graphics, the game never had a improvement, perhaps tiny tiny ones here and there (*see the first point). However, I think the graphics are /just/ fine for a city building game like this. The problem is whether you can always support it given the bad optimization in the first place.
In terms of management, the game always does a great job. You are told what is wrong with your city most of the time (at the top, like you can see in the screenshot) and there are a ton of different views you can look at your city at using the right pane.
A problem regarding management is the roads and luxury. Luxury is a forget to deal with and roads can easily turn into problems mid-game, this does force the player to use bus/train lines, but they may not always work like you think they would. I have three different bus lines on my city above, and I still have red roads on multiple parts that I thought I "fixed".
Overally, the game is great. But I don't see any improvement 2010-2011-2012-Platinum in many terms. All I know of, more buildings and maps.
