Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive are continuing to push out new expansion content for their successful city-building simulator, Cities: Skylines, recently confirming that the next expansion will be themed around Plazas and Promenades, and be made available for purchase soon. The pedestrian-themed expansion will be available on the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms simultaneously at a price of 14.99 USD / 12.99 GBP / 14.99 EUR or local equivalent.
Cities: Skylines Plazas and Promenades seeks to invite players to “build their dream on-foot experience as well as adding different district options and city service buildings”. Players should expect to be able to work towards “[eliminating] noise and air pollution and say hello to pedestrian streets, car free areas, and modern plazas”.
Promoted features of this expansion include:
Pedestrian Streets: let your citizens walk freely on pedestrian-only streets! Place them in your city like any other road and create new green city centers free of most vehicles and pollution.
Pedestrian Zones and New Policies: activate three zone-specific policies for your city including Slow Driving: all roads in the pedestrian zone, except highways, get a speed limit of 20 miles/hour. Sugar Ban: increases the average lifespan of citizens in the pedestrian zone but decreases their happiness. Street Music: increases happiness and noise pollution in pedestrian commercial zones.
District Specialization: we added 3 new district specializations: offices, high-density residential areas, and high-density commercial zones. Setting a specialization on a district affects all zoned squares in that district that will spawn buildings with a different visual appearance and a gameplay effect. Each specialization features 24 new modern wall-to-wall buildings!
City Service Buildings: service buildings are important, but how about awesome-looking service buildings? Connect them to pedestrian zones by matching their visual style and provide services that contribute to good happiness values.
To be made available separately from the Plazas and Promenades expansion, two content creator packs are scheduled to be made available as well.
Inspired by the American design movement of the same name, “Mid-Century Modern” by REVO grants players sleek and stylish residential growable buildings.
Seaside Resorts” by Gèze brings the spirit of the classic seaside resort towns, boulevards and piers that flourished in 19th century America to Cities: Skylines.
Complementing both will be two new radio stations also available to purchase, Paradise Radio and Shoreline Radio. All the above will be available for standalone purchase, and as part of the “Plazas and Promenades Bundle” at a 15% discount.
