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Summary: RailRoad Tycoon
Review: A great game with with good graphics. Pick any city in the world to start with! Also some made-up maps. You can make your own maps by using the map editor.
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Summary: RailRoad Tycoon
Review: A great game with with good graphics. Pick any city in the world to start with! Also some made-up maps. You can make your own maps by using the map editor.
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Summary: Railroad Tycoon Gold Edition
Review: Bought this after Rollercoaster Tycoon. This was about a year ago. I can not get away from this game. VERY addicitive. Especially if you are into entreprenuership. This game has many features that others just do not. The Stock Market feature makes this game multi dimensional. The AI players are always trying to bankrupt you by making stratigic moves in the stock market. Buy to many shares of your company or any others on margin, the AI players will act and destroy your bank account. The graphics are excellent, however a little dark sometimes. The scenarios are fun and difficult. There is a lot of detail in making sure your cargos are managed and shipped correctly. It is easy at first when you have just a few cities to service. Once you get a network of cities...it can be very testing.I highly reccomend this game to anyone that has owned a business or is into the stock market, or into managing a business which is fast past and demanding. This game is better suited for adults as the complexity and business aspects would likely bore a youngster.
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Summary: Incorrect Literature Included with Game
Review: Even though I have never been able to play this game, I HAVE ordered it, and read the literature and tried to install it on my computer. If you look at the installation guide included with the box, or on the side of the box, it says that you have to have at least 130 MB (Megabytes) on your computer in order to install it. THIS ISN'T TRUE! When you open up the installer, or the setup program, it turns out that you actually need 222 MB of free space to install it! So as a warning to all of you people thinking of buying this, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AT LEAST 222 MB OF SPACE ON YOUR COMPUTER FIRST! If you don't, you'll have to send it back. The game really looks neat to play if you read other reviews, and the instuction booklet, but be sure to have enough space on your hard disk to install this program before ordering it!
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Summary: Great enhancements but also big omissions from the original
Review: I browsed through the reviews by other players, and I am surprised that noone mentioned the original Railroad Tycoon, one of my all-time favorite games. My guess is that most people are too young here to have played it. For those who did, I think a comparison to the original would be in order. First, I should say, I loved Railroad Tycoon 2. Railroad building is probably the most fun among the building games, I think because you not only build, but run your empire as well. RR2 is a good game on its own, and it builds on the strengths of the original and gives great enhancements. GREAT IMPROVEMENTS over the original are obviously the graphics... since about 10 years has passed, this was a must. The addition of scenarios, is great, and provides not only loads of fun, but knowledge about the history of trains over the world as well. The addition of the stock market brings a new dimension to the game that is fun, however I found that sometimes it got in the way of railroad building fun, requiring too much attention to finances with too little control. I also liked the building of tracks with one click a lot; although an "undo" feature is greatly missing - the easy building also means it is easy to make a mistake, and often a costly one. My recommendation is to save before every major track building effort. DISAPPOINTING OMISSIONS from the original include the often mentioned tunnel building, but my biggest disappointment was the less operational control over your trains. That really manifests itself when you already have a big railroad network, and your trains keep waiting on each other, because they are all using the same track, and you have no way to route them on an alternate track. Therefore I greatly miss the feature where you can tell a train to go through a station but not stop there, and the signals; both can be a great help in avoiding the crowding of trains. Another disappointment was the interface; although it is OK, and a lot of the immaturities of the original have been cleaned up, but it still follows the layout of the original that is largely menu-driven. The added-on financial market interface is rather tedious and unintuitive. All in all, this is a very good game, greatly because it follows closely the original, and updates it to the new game standards. This game is great for everyone, but if you have played the original, you will wonder why PopTop omitted some great features that could have made this game so much better.
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Summary: Jamie
Review: I can't say it any better then ... did, but I will say if you haven't bought it yet go out right now. IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER!
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Summary: A Good Game
Review: I have wanted RT2 for a while and when I finally got it, I wasn't disappointed. When I first get games and play them, after the first 15 minutes, its either I love it, or never want to see it again, and with RT2, I loved it. Being a lover of railroad and railroad history, it was not very hard to like the game. It is realistic in terms of the engines and box cars. You can span a period between 1820? -2050. Engines and box cars and even railroad station buildings(which you personally build) change with time. Its unrealistic in its size scaling, but that shouldn't be much of a problem for people. My favorites are the seperate scenarios. You can build your railroad empire on every continent on the planet, including Antarctica. You run your business like a real business with annual reports, shareholders to listen to, and even your own personal finances to deal with(with the capability of buying out your company from the rest of the stockholders).
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Summary: One of the best business sims around!
Review: If you like making money and a good challenge, this is the game for you. Laying track, building stations, and buying train engines is just the beginning of this complex game. You have to make decisions on where to lay track, which towns to service, and (in the scenerios provided) what is the best way to complete each scenerio. For scenerios, you are given at least 10 different maps to choose from, each with a different scenerio to complete and each with different computer opponents. In addition to trying to complete the requirements of each scenerio, you have to make decisions that keep your investors happy (or they will cut your salary) as well as personal financial decisions (or where to invest that salary) which gives the game a very "real-life" feel. To add to the "real-life" feel, the game can be played on-line or over a network with a group of your buddies which makes it even more fun. Overall, it is a great game which has incrediable graphics (trains, stations, towns, and landscape are drawn beautifully), a good manual, and is highly addictive. Actually, that is my only warning - if you like business simulation games like Rollercoaster Tycoon or previous versions of Railroad Tycoon - expect to spend several hours playing this game.
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Summary: The most addictive game ever
Review: If you like trains, there is no way you shouldn't buy this game.
BEWARE: This game is known to cause sleepless nights...
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Summary: "We were waving our arms out the window"
Review: In the Addams Family movies, Gomez would blow off steam by "playing" with his model trains -- smashing them into each other so that the explosions would reverberate throughout the mansion. The first Railroad Tycoon allowed you to do this by fiddling with track signals, but the trains were blocky little things, so the impact was underwhelming. The opening footage to Railroad Tycoon 2 implies that some gnarly train wreckage is on your way. Indeed, the game has some beautiful trains, puffing and zipping their way through impressionist landscapes. Tragically, one can only deliberately crash a train by failing to properly maintain it. A destroyed train is a solitary event (no impact with another train), and instead of car after car piling up after the train has fallen off the tracks, the destroyed train sits on the track -- blocking traffic -- and then disappears in a puff of smoke. What a letdown! Mind you, this is about the only way that Railroad Tycoon 2 has fallen down. It is highly customizable, and it is graphically beautiful. It comes with a challenging campaign and dozens of scenarios. The map editor allows for some sophisticated rendering of real landscapes taken from satellite data. Dozens of scenarios are available on the Internet, so this investment might be one of the best entertainment values out there. There is increased flexibility in the corporate financial model, and some of the AIs are truly vicious, but you can simply turn them off in the scenarios. Even if you can't play smash-'em-up with the trains, there is plenty of havoc that you can wreak as you try to crush the economic dreams of your opponents and, of course, the thousands of railroad employees working for you.
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