Paradox brought a new Cities Skylines 2 trailer to the Xbox Games Showcase today, and my goodness is it ever looking cool. We got a release date, too: October 24, 2023.
The city builder's tagline is "if you can dream it, you can build it," and the trailer serenely shows us its possibilities, like Koyaanisqatsi but fun instead of scary. Perhaps we should be interrogating the cost of all those roads and freeways and not just enjoying their aesthetic qualities, but I really do enjoy seeing complex, twisty interchanges. And I don't know if I'm just being steered by social stereotypes, but the older I get the more excited I am by little trains, and the glimpses we get here suggest a lot of complex ways to configure transportation infrastructure. Light rail intersecting a roundabout? Mad.
