Representatives of the popular real-time strategy genre with an economic bias, as a rule, set specific goals for the gamer and acceptable conditions for achieving them – the development of an industry, the extraction of useful resources, interaction with neighbors, and so on. In the City Island 3 Construction Sim strategy, a novelty from the Sparkling Society studio, the developers wanted to make life a little more difficult for users by handing them not a single piece of territory for development, but a whole island.
Gamers will have to start with the construction and improvement of a miniature village, then evolve to the level of a provincial city, and then aim at the infrastructure of a modern metropolis. It remains to accept the challenge and come to the primary goal as soon as possible! Additional tasks and intermediate goals in the City Island 3 strategy, of course, are also provided, otherwise the whole gameplay would be an ordinary and stereotyped action.
Fortunately, the continuation of the glorious game series is full of variety – respond to the requests of the townspeople, develop industry and offer new jobs to the residents, lay a modern railway connecting the remote corners of the island with a single chain, control every aspect and gradually approach the cherished goal. And, of course, do not forget about the extraction of valuable resources, since in the absence of materials one cannot speak of serious development!
The territory given in City Island 3 under the control of users is competently divided into independent entities – some are used only for mining, the latter are the main objects of receipt of virtual money into the treasury, for example, objects for tourism, and still others are aimed at improving well-being and comfort of the citizens themselves. A rather greedy donation is a little depressing, which is the norm for this developer – it will be problematic to achieve the desired result without microtransactions, although the authors are trying to assure the audience of the opposite.
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