Of course, this is all part of the fun and challenge of the game – I just felt like the first scenario was quite a bit harder than the subsequent missions because of these unreliable, low capacity vehicles. They are also extremely unreliable and break down a great deal, causing giant traffic jams in your delicately balanced network and making your passengers even more annoyed. At this stage a bus can carry just 8 people, and trams 14. This is exacerbated by the fact that in the first scenario mission, Berlin 1920, the vehicles all have a painfully small capacity. It’s a fine balance, and while you get to grips with the game you’ll undoubtedly have large hordes of angry, red-faced passengers who have been waiting forever for a bus to come along, only to find it is too full for them to get on.

The city really feels alive as people and vehicles buzz around all over the place and it’s enormously satisfying watching one of your vehicles go along its route picking up and dropping off passengers, especially if you’ve managed to get the balance of number of passengers vs wait time right so that your vehicles are always full but the queues aren’t getting too long. Here at Mana Pool we’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of Cities in Motion since we were given the opportunity to do a hands-on-preview at the beginning of the year – so, does it hit the mark?įirst things first – the graphics in Cities in Motion are really gorgeous. There’s been quite a gap in the market for a decent transport simulation game of late, and everyone’s hoping that Cities in Motion will be able to live up to the likes of Transport Tycoon and SimCity 3000. The latest offering from Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive, Cities in Motion is a transport simulator in which you are tasked with the set up and maintenance of the public transport networks of four major European cities Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin and Helsinki.

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