14 DAY TRIAL // Zynga, the company behind massively successful Facebook games like FarmVille, FrontierVille or Mafia Wars, is getting ready to launch a brand new game called CityVille, which will see Facebook members start their own cities and take care of them and their inhabitants.
Zynga is ready to expand its social gaming grasp, and revealed that CityVille will be launched "in the following weeks" on Facebook, as well as on its own website, Cityville.com.
The title bears some similarities to other existing games, including SimCity, obviously, another popular Facebook game Social City, and even Zynga's own FarmVille.
The game tasks players with the role of a city planner, and they must construct buildings, from houses to post offices, fire departments, schools, restaurants or shops, on empty plots of lands.
The company didn't detail what tasks players must fulfill, but it seems that food will play a large role in keeping inhabitants happy and your city thriving.
You can even set up farms in CityVille, in order to harvest food, or import goods from other real-life cities like Shanghai, London or Rome.
The social aspect of CityVille will be even larger than in previous Zynga titles, like FarmVille or FrontierVille, as players can set up their own franchises or shops in the cities of their friends, not to mention the fact that you can visit other cities and help them out with clearing land, raising buildings or donate supplies to your friends.
CityVille, like any Facebook game, will offer you the ability to post messages on your wall, and send invitations to your friends in order to have them join in on the fun, thus helping you develop your own city and have the best one around.
Overall, if you're really into Facebook games and you have time left after tending to your crops in FarmVille, your frontier home in FrontierVille or your mob family in MafiaWars, then Zynga's new CityVille is right up your alley.
Check out some screenshots of the game below as well as a video of Zynga developers explaining the concept of CityVille.
