Cities in Motion 2

I didn’t expect the game to grip me in the way it did, and I certainly couldn’t have predicted how excited I would become at the prospect of getting people to their jobs in time. Cities in Motion 2 takes a mundane and, frankly, boring subject matter, and makes it genuinely compelling. It has made my dreary real-life bus journeys a tiny bit more interesting.

Cities in Motion 2's more realistic approach may leave it looking a little drabber than its predecessor, but its focus on dynamic cities, timetables, and ticket prices in a contemporary city in real time make it a significant improvement over its predecessor. It's stuffed with graphs and important decisions that seemingly affect every pixel, and the exclusive focus on transportation systems allows...

There’s no reason you can’t jump into CiM2 now: there’s still a deep, detail-orientated game for you to sink your teeth into, and micro-managers will love the amount of tweaking and fine tuning options you can make to individual lines. Once you get into the right frame of mind, there’s hours upon hours of game time to have, with the campaign map as well as the other ‘skirmish’ maps, so getting you...