Cities Skylines : échos du jeu de plateau et trailers pour Parklife

Paradox confirme la sortie aujourd’hui d’une sixième extension majeure pour son fameux city-builder. Add-on qui comme son nom l’évoque met l’accent sur le développement des loisirs dans vos villes de pixels, via des parcs d’attraction, des réserves naturelles, ou encore des zoos. En plus de la bande-annonce classique en en-tête, voyez aussi le trailer ci-après proposant une sorte de visite virtuelle avec un panorama à 360 degrés.

Pour plus d’informations sur Cities: Skylines – Parklife, voyez cette page chez Paradox ou cette fiche sur Steam. Concernant Cities Skylines, voyez par ici sur Steam ou cette page chez l’éditeur.

Au passage sachez que Cities Skylines fait partie des quatre jeux de Paradox allant bénéficier à l’avenir d’une déclinaison en un classique jeu de plateau. Le premier prévu étant Crusader Kings (voir cette annonce).

Cette future adaptation sera conçue par Rustan Håkansson, à qui l’on doit déjà Nations The Dice Game, et devrait permettre des parties rapides (une bonne heure). D’après de premiers échos de personnes ayant essayé un prototype au récent salon PDXcon18, le plateau proposerait une grille avec six zones de construction, pour cinq types de bâtiments pouvant bénéficier de trois types d’améliorations. Chaque joueur disposera d’une main de cinq cartes proposant des conditions pour gagner de l’argent, cela y compris via les bâtiments d’autres joueurs que l’on pourrait exploiter d’une manière semi-coopérative. La principale conditions de victoire semble être la somme d’argent amassée, le jeu se terminant quand il n’y a plus d’espaces libres pour construire, ou fonction de certains scénarios.

 

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More Play, Less Stress – Parklife is Available Now for Cities: Skylines PC
New ways to play, grow, build and relax with roller coasters, gardens, flamingos and more!

STOCKHOLM – May 24, 2018 – Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order today released the playful Parklife expansion for Cities: Skylines PC. The best-selling city-builder now offers vibrant new parks, playgrounds, zoos, green spaces and more importantly, new ways to play. With a new park area tool, five new maps, a ton of new assets and level-up features that increase your park’s property values, Parklife is will spruce up any city in a snap.

Check out Parklife in the 3D launch trailer and other fancy 3D assets: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4hR-M4rl7ucBOBphmH_Dr_MtcK66pknh

And the 2D launch trailer, for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xci7WDuLw8Q

Cities is also getting a new radio station today: Country Road Radio, with 16 new songs from Appalachian Folk, Bluegrass/Honky Tonk, Nashville Modern Country and Unplugged country.

In addition to the paid expansion, Cities: Skylines will also get a free PC update, as usual, including a new tourism panel, trees that reduce noise pollution, a camera mode upgrade, new tourist models, and new modding features, including submeshmodding and an improved camera system so users can control the camera with scripts.

For more information, please visit https://www.paradoxplaza.com/cities-skylines—parklife/CSCS00ESK0000021-MASTER.html

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