It's a sim game, sure, but it's also a puzzle game. Because the traffic was awful, the trams got stuck too, causing mass buildups of bored would-be commuters at each tram stop. Because the cities needed public transport, the inner-city streets were choked, suffocated even, by cars.

I was building the tram because the city needed public transport. Anyway, in Tutorial Town my £10,000 tram network encountered a real showstopper of a problem almost immediately. Nevermind the fact that when I lived in Manchester I never rode on said tram (although there was once talk of organising a flashmob party on one of them). My problem with the trams was in thinking that what would really help Tutorial Town was a comprehensive inner-city tram line, like they have in Manchester. It speaks volumes that the act of taking out a loan in Cities in Motion is performed with about as much worry as reloading in an FPS. With your pathetic budget you're expected to analyse the city and do the most you can, and then recoup your investment through nothing but ticket fares and the occasional reward for completing an objective. We're talking buses, trams, trains, even boats and helicopters, and we're talking building stops, designing routes and picking vehicles. So, yes: Cities In Motion tasks you with constructing and running a city's public transport network. They're like that strange dream you had, the one with your sister, and the rain. We don't like to talk about the tram stops. Look! Here's a picture of one of my tram stops. What I'm saying here is that I am bad at Cities in Motion. It should clearly have been called Cities in Gridlock, or Cities Keeping Perfectly Still. I've been playing with the latest build, and I actually have a problem with the game's title. Cities in Motion! It's a transport tycoon game from Paradox that's due out at the tail-end of next month.

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