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Sometimes we just need to take a break and toy around our virtual city builders.
And when it comes to city builders, there aren’t that many to choose from –it ultimately comes down to personal preference. If Cities XXL is more your style, then you’re probably wondering what kinda mods you can get your hands on.
Well there are plenty out there, but let’s look over some of the best I’ve found, and the ones you’ll probably have a lot of fun playing with.
Of course, it can’t be avoided that some people will have to commute. We can’t walk everywhere!
And building complex highway systems for vehicle travel has become a huge part of city builders over the years.
The XXL Realistic Highway Mod is all you need when it comes to creating intertwining highways and bridges, with the build options neatly organized by tags such as connectors, elevated connectors, decorations, fast lanes, and bridges.
Really, this one’s a lot of fun to build with. Definitely give it a try.
Many cities around the world pride themselves on the efficiency of their public transportation.
Why should your virtual city be any different?
A great way for your citizens to get around is by bus, and I’m sure they’d appreciate a clean not-full-of-hobos bus system.
The Intercity Bus Terminal actually acts as a downscaled airport, bringing passengers to and from your city. But it can work all the same with some tweaks.
Take your outdoor areas to a whole new level with this ploppable Deco Pack, again by modder Monty.
The pack includes a number of park decorations in different themes – from European to Asian and a few more.
There are seven different statues/monuments to choose from as wlel, so you can decorate your parks with a lot of cool stuff.
Inside you’ll also find three more well-known monuments: the World Telegraph monument from Switzerland, the Charging Bull from New York, and the Daibutsu from Japan.
We’ve focused so much on decorating the outdoor areas of your city, but let’s not forget that your citizens need homes too.
Whether they can afford them is another story…
Residential areas play a bigger role than parks, so you’re going to want to expand your options in terms of what you can build.
The Los Angeles Homes Pack is a great addition for when you’re building larger suburban areas within your city, or if you want sprawling suburbs like LA.
The pack includes seven different houses based on real designs around suburban Los Angeles.
The textures look really good in terms of detail, and will cater to Unskilled and Skilled worker classes alike.
With day-to-day living mostly taken care of, you’ll probably want to give your citizens some means of fun & games. You know, outside the home.
What better way to bring the community together than sporting events?
For that, you’re going to need your own arena.
This mod lets you build not just any arena, but the famous United Center Arena in Chicago.
Known as The House that Jordan Built, the United Center is the largest arena by capacity in the NBA. And now you can toss this bad boy into your own cityscape too.
ANyone looking for more varied options in terms of sporting stadiums, the Sporting Stadiums Unlocked mod will do the trick.
The pack includes 10 different sporting stadiums, none of which are real-world replicas.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
If you’re going for a more unique city build, this is a great way to achieve that.
With 10 stadiums to choose from, you’ll have 2 options for football, 2 for soccer, 1 for Olympic swimming, and 2 for baseball, plus a few others.
You can have dedicated stadiums for different sporting events if you like. Or you can even be the next city to house the Olympics if that’s what you’re after.
And now for arguably the best mod for the game: the Cities XXL Community Patch.
If you read through the description, it may seem smaller and less interesting than the previous entries.
It takes the top spot, though, because most Cities XXL fans consider this to be an essential.
Some will not even play the game without it.
One of the biggest features is the ability to unlock the sandbox/unlimited resources cheat. This basically allows you to build your city with no restrictions – perfect for those who just want to let their imaginations run wild.
But check out the description for more info because it does offer a lot of new smaller things to the gameplay.
