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Summary: Brother, can you spare a dime?
Review: I never could get this game chugging on more than one cylinder. The manual is irrevelant and no outside game helps are published (I've looked for more than a year). Play the stockmarket ??? Forget about it ... If you are not into the esoterica of steam trains or stupid country music, the computer steals the fun and always has you dead to rights. Historical trade and industrial patterns are treated very lightly indeed. I like to able to play the game, but I couldn't make it do anything.
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Summary: One of the all-time best!
Review: I used to play the original RR Tycoon all the time, but gave it up as graphics and technologies moved past it...Now I'm addicted again, because Microsoft has this sequel out. It fixes all the complaints I used to have about the original, and adds many new features, so I don't feel like I am playing the same old game. This game is so simple, a child could play it. However, it provides the opportunity to set higher levels of difficulty. The graphics and sound are great, and there isn't a single thing wrong with this game. Go buy it!
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Summary: Thinking about selling my car :)
Review: If you want to get a hint what is big business all about, if you can't understand why have the great personalities (brought back to life in this game!) persisted at their work, when they could have long retire, sit down, feed your mouse some cheese and go on. Graphics is excellent, game runs wonderfully, you have very lot of options, different campaigns, scenarios, around 50 trains and 30 cargo cars. You must master building, transporting cargo, finances & stocks and much more. You must be very accurate at laying tracks because it is made somehow tricky, plus you have to control the steepness of the track (very influential on train & delivery speed). You can also buy many additional buildings for your station, which adds good look and value to your company. I bought the game on second hand, so I haven't got the manual, because the first owner has ''misplaced'' it (would you expect from 12 years old kid in Slovenia to read English manuals? He probably threw it away). But if you are persistant, you'll get into game quite fast. I think it wil stay your thrill for a long time.
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Summary: You Will Never Be Board From It
Review: It is really amazing game I am playing wih it since 4 years , and still i enjoy it . Being a specialist of tycoon games this one is a very big hit .
With some amendments to the cargo types it will be perfect
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Summary: A Railfan Must
Review: Love this game as well as part two never really appreciated trains until I started playing this game. Good history lesson.
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Summary: Excellent Game
Review: Love this game as well as part two never really appreciated trains until I started playing this game. Good history lesson.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: Pros:1. Good campaign plans. 2. Good graphics for its time 3. The feeling of an expanded railroad is great. 4. Well thought out with lots of little features. 5. Create your own maps and play on them. 6. V. addictive. Cons: 1. Once you have a huge railroad, it is difficult to maintain without pausing constantly. 2. Most engines are ridiculously slow on mountain terrain. 3. V. addictive.
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Summary: Railroad Tycoon Video Demanding
Review: Railroad Tycoon II has extremely well done graphics. Unfortunately, this game is a system HOG. If you have an older i.e. pre-1999 system or plan on playing this on a laptop as I did, forget it. It requires higher resolution than even most brand new laptops have. If you have 800X600 on your system, forget it. It won't run. It says it will run on a 133. Don't bother as it will hang as your game progresses. This is an excellent game but not for the older desktop. Track laying is tedious and the most boring part of the game.
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Summary: Railroad Tycoon II
Review: Railroad Tycoon II is a real time strategy game by Poptop software with complex interactions, interesting graphics and lots of thinking. The gameplay reminds me of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon, In which you play a tycoon who control the trains, buses, planes and ships in the tycoon world. In RRT2 you play as the railroad baron and control the train transportation, Buy and sell stocks, set the train routes, lay the railway tracks, stations and take over companies. There are lots of real life trains and cities. The gameplay is quite good, It takes a while to learn to play and be good at it. RRT2's graphics are very good, The towns are very beautifully desinged, There are lots of beautiful terrain and real looking buildings, The world looks real, with rivers, forests, snow and hilly mountains. RRT2's screnario's are also very well desinged and a lot fun to play, It also comes with a screnario editor for you to create your own screnario's. Railroad Tycoon II has got a clumsy interface, It is very hard to lay the tracks with the mouse. There are other annoying factors like, You don't get enough money, It's hard to manage things when you have a lot of trains and stations, You need to pay a lot of attention at the stock market to make money ect. Railroad Tycoon II is a very good game but quite hard to play. If you like this game get Transport Tycoon, It is more intresting, lot more fun and quite easy compared to this.
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Summary: For me it is a fascinating flexible strategy game
Review: Railroad Tycoon II is extremely flexible. At one level you can play it as an exciting multi-user game with robbers robbing trains, trains blowing apart and ruthless AI opponents. At another level you can read through the book and understand much more about how the game was built and its capabilities. You can control the speed of play, I use the slowest speed and even then I find it too fast when running over 300 trains in the UK at the same time. For me using the book, RailRoad Tycoon II Official strategy guide and the game together meant learning about the map editor so I could customise other people's maps and make my favourite map of England much more accurate to play. The game itself becomes much more interesting as you deal with more levels of complexity. You can even eliminate the AI opponents and robbers. Introduce new events and generally create your own world. The game shows its North American roots. My background being English is very different, nowhere in England is more than 50 miles from the sea. Fishing and ports are much more important. My personal wish list would be to add different types of ports and a fish cargo to the game. But to enjoy the game to the full you really need the Official Strategy Guide. Is it likely to have a harmful effect. Don't know. I have spent many hours playing the game, I have even learnt a bit of geography whilst playing it, I now know roughly where a few places like Denver and Frankfurt are. Also I can tell you exactly where the mountain ranges that are going to slow down trains are as well. It also gives an introduction to economics, how resources interact with cites and manufacturing plants.
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