THINNER CITY

CITIES: SKYLINES II is a lot bigger than the original, but not quite better

By Christopher Livingston

Attention citizens! You may have noticed two exciting new features in our fair city. The first is the Large Hadron Collider, an extremely massive and expensive scientific facility that will inspire an interest in education and boost our tech industry! The second new feature is that, due to the heavy infrastructural demands of the collider, every sewer in the city is backed up and none of your toilets will flush. Not to worry! To fix that I'll just buy more land so I can build additional groundwater pumping stations and water treatment plants – or at least I would do that if I hadn't spent every last penny on that big collider thingie. Time to mess with some budget sliders and take out a huge loan I'll probably never be able…

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