Can It Survive the Performance Issues? [ Cities Skylines II Review ] 

Since it's apparently going to become an issue judging by a handful of the comments youtube has flagged for approval after a surge of external traffic: The point of a review is to provide an accurate account of the pros and cons of an experience the reviewer had on a game, and capture their opinion. My review is my opinion and observations, I'm not here to dress a turd up in flowers, or bury a diamond in manure. Getting mad because I like part of the game, or getting upset that I don't think a game is perfect - is just a sign that my reviews are not the ones for you. My stance is, and always will be: there are no perfect games, and short of asset flips and shovelware, there are no perfectly horrible games. So every review, will have positives AND negatives (whether I "like" a game or not) To hit the most common points people have been mentioning: - The game does have performance issues, as addressed in the video, alongside the mention of playing on low/medium settings at larger city sizes. It's not "sky is falling bad", but it's also not good. - Unless explicitly stated, I do not review modern titles utilizing any mods (retro titles sometimes need mods to run on modern systems, and I restrict these to wrappers/upscalers/nocd mods) - I do not do sponsored reviews (they are unethical), nor do I post reviews for games produced by companies I have blacklisted (the only channel I will post content from blacklisted companies is the Game Sampler channel). If you don't want to be caught by spam filters or "offensive content" filters - don't post links, don't swear incessantly, don't directly attack people, and don't post the same words over and over. Other than the link filter, these are not channel specific filters, but rather youtube itself catching the comment, and I generally don't approve those unless they add something valuable to the conversation.

I'm relatively unimpressed with the road and particularly the rail mechanics. Yes, it's a massive upgrade from CS1, but players of Transport Fever will recognize it immediately as a system that was in that game from the very start in 2014, before CS1 was even released. The problem with the CS2 version is the train lines just follow the contours of the land, transforming trains into roller coasters. In Transport Fever the train line will automatically create cuttings, embankments, tunnels and bridges in order to keep the line as flat as possible. It's as if they have put half of a good idea into the game and ignored the other. Not good! As for pricing, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Two or three years from now we'll have a decent game with DLC and mods to support it and if you wait until a Steam sale you'll probably get it all for around the same price as release. Personally it's a no from me, not until the performance issues are sorted and the game has some more content to offer. Wait for the sale!

Thanks for the review! Your game looked pretty smooth near the approx. 60K population. Did you have to play around with the graphics settings until you could find a combination that worked?

Cannot wait for this game, but it is probably a pass on release for anyone that isn't meeting recommended specs. If you are below rec specs take another look when the console version releases, it will be far better optimized for low end systems at that point.

Not available on Mac😭😢

Yeah, I think this is a downgrade. I'll pass for now until I see more detailing content, better performance and how well the Mods will be implemented. I wouldn't rush into buying this at this time. Its better to wait. I still have CS1 that still works great.

The performance is horrible. Absolutely horrible.

the monetization and your feelings about paradox should be separate from this otherwise it would be unprofessional.

God that looks boring.