Monte Cristo released the Cities XL US demo, as announced about a week ago. You can check the list of mirrors on the official website. For those interested in the Planet offer - the massively multiplayer part of Cities XL - we urge you to remember the pricing.

Here are some of the features available in the demo:

- Create a city of up to 22 000 citizens on a persistent planet (the full version of the game lets you create megalopolises of millions of citizens)
- Build your city on one of the 3 available maps (the full version of the game will include 25 maps for solo mode and 50 for the Planet Offer)
- Visit Capital City, a small and nice town that offers an example of what can be created with Cities XL
- Discuss and trade resources with other players
- Write your own City Journal
- Start a new city as often as you wish for the duration of the demo trial!

Cities XL will be released on October 8th 2009 on PC DVD in the following countries: France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand and Australia. And it will be released on October 9th in the UK, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Italy, USA and Canada.