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Summary: Addicting and well worth the money!
Review: Railroad Tycoon II is one of the most addicting games I have ever played! The general theme of the game is that you are in charge of a railroad company with the goal being to gain the most money. What is really going on is this. For example, You look at one of the many maps (Europe, U.S.A., China, etc) and you find a city that makes wool, than you find another city that wants wool. All you have to do is lay some track and order a train to pick up wool in one city and drop off the wool at another. This is just one of the examples that lies within the game. As the game progresses the cities demand cars so you get to choose to provide them. Within this lies the one true strength of the game and that is it is nearly always a "win-win situation". In other words, if London is demanding cars but I decide that I don't really want to bother with the city, the game will not punish me. The only thing I am missing out is the financial gains of providing London with cars. This is different from other simulation games. If I decided I don't want to worry about unemployment in Sim City than I am sure to suffer in the long run. In Tycoon the only thing I need to worry about is what I want to do! If I want to only build tracks in one section of the map than the game will go on and I will make money from the South. And guess what? When and if I decide to expand to the other cities they will still be ready to accept my rail road with open arms. It is as if the game wants you to have fun and to decide on what you want to do. Now to the areas that need improvement. Some people say the manual is weak and I must say some additional information would be helpful. But the learning curve for the game is quite simple. Within an hour you will be comfortable with the game and after two hours you will be a pro. In other reviews people have complained about the method of track laying, specifically the difficulty of the process but don't let this one flaw stop you from buying the game. Railroad tycoon 2 is a fun and highly addictive game that will keep you coming back for more.
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Summary: I recommend Railroad Tycoon II to anyone.
Review: Railroad Tycoon is an excellent strategy game. Players design a railroad from the ground up. Where should you locate tracks? What engines should you buy? And just as importantly, what cargo should you carry and where will it fetch the highest price? The railroad genre should appeal to many and it is a refreshing break from military strategy. The user interface is intuitive and the graphics are nice. The game play is real-time. AI opponents are fairly challenging.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: Someone gave me this game as a gift and I must say, it is one of few gifts I actually kept and got enjoyment from. I have been playing this game for a long time now and can play it at anytime because there is always something new to learn and new ways to get rich and rule the RR business. This game is detailed, graphically pleasing, and requires some gamer skill. I am sure you can handle it if you are reading this review.
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Summary: Proves strategy doesn't always involve bloodshed
Review: Strategy games are often games that require you slice your enemy into bits, blow up his tanks, and mow down his peasants. It's so wonderful to find a fantastic strategy game that is at its root a monetary war, instead of a physical one. In Railroad Tycoon II you being with the famous B&O Railroad, connecting cities in the northeast corridor of the US. You begin with single track, determining which city needs which goods, and how to give each city what they want while managing your finances. As you get more money you can build larger stations, buy bigger engines, beef up your track system, and more. Cities will offer you money in exchange for building track out to them, and the more cities you connect, the more types of goods you have to offer to other stations on the line. As you move on in the game you can move on to different areas, even building a network of rails across Europe. You get annual reports with your finances, can purchase stock in your own company or from competitors. You can buy farms and factories, invest, take out loans, but if you wish, you can simply ride the rails and move goods. The graphics are great for a game from '98. They are done in an organic, old style, with old videos showing events of the times. You can build telegraph poles to speed station turnaround, hear about recessions and regrowth of economies, issue bonds, attempt mergers. The political climate even affects where rights are cheap or expensive to buy. It's a lesson in history as well as a challenging mental exercise! Some of the more advanced features are a bit difficult to figure out, but there are numerous web sites out there that will quickly guide you through those situations. For most of the game, it's incredibly easy to learn, and the status screens tell you at a glance what is going on. You can even customize your own map, and play in another country or in a mythical situation of your own devising. I recommend this highly as a great strategy game for all ages that you actually come away with knowing more than you did when you began.
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Summary: Excellent graphics & strategy elements compared to original
Review: The graphics are amazing on all detail levels of this game and incorporates even more elements that must be overcome to be successful. The amount of options of maps and economies, etc is much improved from the first game. This is not for the amateur gamer, if you expect to succeed at this game, you must be willing to fail at it many times before you get the nack of everything. Even on the easy setting, it is quite complicated. The game is much better than the first version, although one element of the game I did not particular like was the territory use rights. I should not have to spend one million dollars to use Italy's land. It may be more realistic, but it is a pain in expansion when you only need one mine or one city over a border to pay for the whole county.
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Summary: Highly addictive at first
Review: This game is fun the first time you play it, except laying railroads and building the same towns over and over again gets boring. I immediately started searching for cheats, which give the game a little more boost, but it was collecting dust in about a month. Dont waist your money. If you think you would like this game buy Roller Coaster Tycoon instead.
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Summary: Dont get it
Review: This game is worth about 28 hours of good play than it realy gets boring. It isnt proportional eather if you play a scenario game and make a 6 car train, it would stretch from Millwalkie to Chicago. The graphics are very good and so is the sound but, thats the best part of the game. I give this game 2 stars.
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Summary: Great Game
Review: This is a great game. The sound is good and so is the graphics. If you like RTC you will like this game. It is a hard game but it is fun. You can play the stock market. There are all kinds of trains. There are some cheat codes so you can get more money. I very highly recommend this game.
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Summary: Railroad Tycoon II
Review: Very involving strategy game, has a good tutorial to supplement it. But very hard and quite frustrating.
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Summary: Excellent strategy game that you will find addictive!
Review: What a game. For the rail enthusiast, this is a must have! This game combines railroading, geography, politics and high finance into an incredible game of strategy. Build an empire and meet geographic, financial or political goals. 3 hours passes like 30 minutes playing this game. Each new campaign is progressively more difficult and requires its own strategy to win. I've been playing the game for 6 months and havn't figured it all out yet...but it's held my interest all this time. Hands down, the best strategy game I've ever played! Railroad Tycoon...gotta buy it!
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