CitiesXL has announced the beginning of
their beta period! CitiesXL is a city builder game with an online twist; in
online mode you're able to trade resources, services, and even people, to fill
the needs of YOUR city, with your online neighbors. Blueprints for unique city
structures are also available in game and tradable with neighbors. Some of the
unique blueprints include the Eiffel tower and the Empire State Building!
Monte Cristo is happy to give the
Curse.com readers a special promo code that will give you more chances to be
drawn for the Beta access! Use the code
CUR541 when signing up for preferential
treatment in the beta signup process!
Here's an exclusive first look video for CitiesXL:
Paris, France – 16 April 2009. Monte
Cristo, developer and publisher of CITIES XL(tm), is pleased to announce that
registration for the game’s closed beta will begin at 11 TBC a.m. UTC/GMT on 16
April 2009. Gamers interested in testing the game and offering input into the
development of Monte Cristo’s next-generation city builder/MMO should sign up at
http://jointhebeta.citiesxl.com.
Monte Cristo is happy to give the Curse.com readers a special promo code
that will give you more chances to be drawn for the Beta access! Use the code CUR541 when
signing up for preferential treatment in the beta signup process!
Be sure to visit
http://www.citiesxl.com
for more information about the game, and to learn more about the upcoming beta.
CITIES XL™ allows gamers to develop
cities on realistic 3D maps using an incredible collection of unique structures
and monuments based on American, Asian and European-influenced architectural
styles. The maps feature a variety of environments: mountains, hills, canyons,
beaches and islands, all set in different climates from tropical to desert,
Mediterranean to temperate. Players must create the right combinations of social
services, leisure activities, special events and other job opportunities within
their cities in order to feed, clothe, employ and entertain their citizens. Be
it planning and building a new zoo, public park, residential neighborhood or
transit system - there's always a fresh and exciting challenge for would-be city
managers and mayors in CITIES XL™.
“We’re excited to be at the point where we feel
we’ve laid very solid foundations for this unique game,” said Jerome Gastaldi,
CEO of Monte Cristo, “Now we need to test the architecture to see how players
respond to it, and to improve the integration of the online-gameplay and social
networking features,. In the next weeks, we’ll let more residents into our
closed betas and keep stress-testing the edifice correctly.”
The game’s online features and services will
allow players to create interconnected cities on virtual and persistent planets.
Mayors can share and trade with one another, specialize their economy and team
up with befriended cities to create sprawling metropolises. Life on the planet
will be punctuated by events and competitions - a concert held in one town may,
for example, be attended by visitors from other areas who can also enjoy a walk
around the city to admire the urban creations of multiple players. By combining
a fantastic single-player game with the social and multiplayer aspects of an MMO,
CITIES XL™ will shape the future of the genre by offering more variety,
bigger cities and multiple gameplay layers.
For more information about CITIES XL™,
which will ship in 2009, please visit
www.citiesxl.com
About Monte Cristo Games
Created in 1995 Monte Cristo is a leading game
production company with over a decade of experience, having successfully
published 30 games worldwide. Backed by leading international venture
capitalists, we are currently focusing a team of over 80 people on the
development of CITIES XL™ which merges video gaming with social
networking and virtual worlds.
