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Summary: Defintly get this game
Review: i liked the game because instead of the same old "goblins and orcs", it's the FBI and Newspapers.I think it is well worth the money.
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Summary: Kinda fun.
Review: I love trains and love strategy games. This fit the niche quite well. The only problem is that 3 games later (~4 hours per game), I've pretty much mastered it and there's not much more of interest. It is really a game of racing to lay tracks (either yourself or through acquisition). There are some cool political and other influential things you can do to make things interesting against your opponents along the way. I'm not sure what I was expecting but I certainly wasn't captivated very long. Graphics are okay, nothing to write home about.
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Summary: A very fun game
Review: I really like this game. Instead of individual trains, you get to build and run a railroad network, like you would in the board game Rail Baron. The graphics even look like a board game and you can play a game in a couple of hours so it is easy to try out different strategies. Just like the real world, you start out cooperating with the other railroads to build up the network and share the traffic but you end up in a real dog fight for total domination. This is the first game I have played that makes this kind of transition well. In most games, the bigger your empire gets, the more tedious the management becomes but this game automates much of the management freeing you up to concentrate on the other players. One thing to remember, the winner is the person with the most prestige points, not the person with the most money. You get prestige points by building a transcontinental railroad or connecting the gulf of Mexico to Canada or dominating a region. As you play, you collect influence card which are things like politicians or newspapers. You use these cards to attack the other players by causing a scandal or sabotaging a section of their railroad. Of course, you use the same card to protect yourself from the same kind of attacks so you have to be careful how you use them.
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Summary: Defintly get this game
Review: I was a little apprehensive at first with this game, with a varying range of comments all over the place. However, the right choice was made when I acquired this game. It's great to 'attack' your opponents with influence attacks, in addition to building my own little choo-choo...If RAA has any drawbacks, they lie within the game's exciting, but overwhelming attention to detail. This, I don't mind. I love detail, especially on this scale. Additionally, the multiplayer element adds a new degree to the game. Well worth my time and attention.
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Summary: Well designed strategy game
Review: I was a little apprehensive at first with this game, with a varying range of comments all over the place. However, the right choice was made when I acquired this game. It's great to 'attack' your opponents with influence attacks, in addition to building my own little choo-choo... If RAA has any drawbacks, they lie within the game's exciting, but overwhelming attention to detail. This, I don't mind. I love detail, especially on this scale. Additionally, the multiplayer element adds a new degree to the game. Well worth my time and attention.
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Summary: Not what I expected...
Review: I was very disappointed with this game... I'm a huge fan of Railroad Tycoon, but if you buy this game thinking you'll get anything like it, think again. First, the graphics, although they are crisp, are very simplistic and merely adequate. I personally find them ugly and boring. The sounds and animations are very basic too. A huge drawback is that there is only one map to play on. For me, it got boring very quickly to always see the same thing. What I hadn't understood when buying this game is that it's a railroad simulation, not a train simulation. You never get into the detail of passengers and goods transportation in this game... you cannot choose which types of wagons the trains will pull -- all trains look the same and it's just assumed they pull the appropriate wagons depending on where they go to. Basically, I found there was very little to do in the game, and it's all very repetitive and boring. If the game sold for $19.95, it might be worth it for railroad fans (although I wouldn't even buy it at this price.)
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Summary: Build an Empire
Review: If you are looking for a game with great 3D graphics, and something where you can micromanage your Rail Road down to the last detail then this isn't the game for you. But if you want a game which allows you to build a massive Rail Road Empire and use every trick you can pull out of your hat to bury your competition without having to become bogged down in the daily workings of the trains unless you want to, then this is definately the game for you. It allows you to run a massive RR empire and compete to be the most prestigious and well known of them all. At the same time using all the dirty tricks from stealing stock to causing labor stikes to slow down your opponent. But be careful, they can do the same to you! Well worth the 39.99
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Summary: Not Raiload Tycoon...but a good game never the less...
Review: In my opinion, Railroad Tycoon is by far the best railroading game out there. However, this game deals with more system building. Building a large network and beating up on others to have the best railroad system. There is more "battles" in this game compared to Railroad Tycoon. In Tycoon, you can leverage your stock to buy out a competing railroad. In Rails, you have a slew of options to wear out an opponent. You can not buy them out like in Tycoon, but you sure can disrupt their plans to eventually bankrupt them. Good partner to Railroad Tycoon. You might want to wait till the price comes down. (...) The graphics are not nearly as nice as Tycoon.
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Summary: Rails Across America
Review: It's a really cool game...you get to destroy other railroad companies..but be careful that you don't go bankrupt; that's really bad and all. I recommend this game because you can go back in history.
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Summary: Great multi-player too
Review: The game is a load of good railroading strategy & fun, but it gets even better with other players. It is one of the few real strategy games I have seen that is NOT a wargame, but has some cool way to interact with the other players. RAA works well over the local networkand across the internet. I enjoyed playing with my friends, and with random folks up on Gamespy. I could never dedicate myself to a six-hour game online like some people can, but RAA lets me a play a full game in about ninety minutes.
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