Philips slide scannerĪnd almost like water finally returning to a desert and turning the arid landscape green overnight, so did fans of electronic cities begin to finally thrive and produce their own content to bolster the game's impressive simulation engine. After the genre spent years languishing in what seemed like carbon copies of past glories or kitschy abstractions, Finnish developer Colossal Order lived up to its name and delivered a worthy successor to everyone's childhood nostalgia for SimCity complete with all the modern trappings of urban development that have developed since the turn of the millennium as well as its own unique graphical and mechanical twists that set it apart as more than just a successor to the games of old, but as the new gold standard.
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