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Summary: It's ok
Review: It's awesome even though i never played it, it sounds cool. Is it like Rollercoaster Tycon?
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Summary: Something different.
Review: Much in the same line as Simcity, Railroad Tycoon2 offers something different: a little more activity while playing. Usually on Simcity, you build and just sit there waiting for your city to grow. On RT2, you not only have to build track and train stations, but you must set which town and in what order your train will visit these stations. you also must advance to faster and more efficient trains while trying to meet the requiremnets for the task that was set for you to complete. Most of these challenges are hard, but others are even harder, especially when you have a dead line. With beautiful graphics and a little train history lesson, this game is a lot of fun to play.
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Summary: Strategy Gaming at its finest
Review: Railroad Tycoon II Gold gives strategy gamers an astonishing amount of value for its price. It contains the original Railroad Tycoon II, the Second Century expansion pack, and bonus maps and upgrades. While most game publishers today are interested in squeezing gamers for every last dollar, Gathering of Developers has taken the opposite approach. This is all the more remarkable because Railroad Tycoon II is one of the best strategy games in recent memory. It would probably be a best-seller if it dealt with a more trendy, sexy topic. But railroading can be fun, too, and this game proves it.As the title suggests, this game allows you to become CEO of your own railroad. Using any one of countless maps that cover nearly the entire globe, you will need to lay track, build stations, buy trains, and set schedules as you try to turn a profit. But this isn't just an electronic train set. You will often face computer opponents armed with solid AI programming who will be building their own railroads -- and trying to run you out of business! The game features an elaborate stock market with provisions for buying on margin and selling short. There is also a very realistic supply-and-demand economic model that governs how much money you earn. For example, if you oversupply a city with a commodity such as lumber, you'll eventually depress the price of lumber; but if you haul fruit and milk to a city that needs food, you'll make a fortune. Sound too technical or mathematical for you? PopTop thought of that, so you can choose to play without the stock market or the advanced economic model if you'd like. The game allows you exceptional control over the challenges you will face without sacrificing gameplay or fun. Despite what I said earlier, if all you are looking for is an electronic sandbox, then rejoice: the game features a sandbox mode, where you can run trains to your heart's content without worrying about earning money. Dozens of engines are included, from steam to diesel to modern electrics. You can haul almost any cargo you can think of, from cotton and grain to coal and uranium. Railroad Tycoon II Gold comes with two separate compaigns comprising three dozen maps that require you not only to run a railroad but also to perform specific tasks in order to win, such as building a transcontinental line, or reaching a certain level of profit. If you'd rather just play a quick game, there are dozens of scenarios to play. With a very easy-to-use map editor -- honest, it really is easy to use -- this game has almost infinite replay value. You can even download any of the hundreds of user-designed maps from various internet sites. I can't recommend this game enough, but if you aren't a fan of economic or real-world simulations, this game might not be for you. Also, if you plan to play in multiplayer mode, keep in mind that you can only play PC to PC or Macintosh to Macintosh, but not cross-platform. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this game puts the popular Rollercoaster Tycoon game to shame, but young players might prefer that game because it is easier overall. Still, if you like strategy games, please consider supporting smaller game developers like PopTop Software by picking up a copy of Railroad Tycoon II Gold. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Awsome!
Review: Railroad Tycoon II Gold is one of the best ALL TIME VIDEO GAME experiences for the more adult consumer. Super graphics/sound and the sophisticated gameplay will really test your management skills. Build, maintain, and manage your own railroad empire. Cutthroat competition and a great stock market interface adds to the challenge and fun. This game could easily be used as a primary university teaching aid for general economics, capitalism, business management, investment theory, industrial engineering, and even history. Fantastic!
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Summary: A great challenge and lots of fun
Review: Railroad Tycoon II is a great strategy game that requires critical thinking and lots of patience. If you possess both of these then RT2 is the game for you. In RT2 you are put in the seat of the chairman of a large railroad corporation, and you must expand your railroad across America, all the while maintaining a constant stream of revenue and profits. This entails starting profitable routes such as taking passengers & mail to various towns that demand them, and taking resources to industries that require them. For example, you would take coal and iron to a steel mill for it to produce steel, and then steel and grain to produce goods at a cannery. Establishing and maintaining these routes, and keeping them profitable at the same time, is a great challenge and requires constant micromanagement of train consists and the demands of your individual trains, such as their needing oil, sand or water. It may sound technical, but RT2 is loads of fun. It's a great feeling to see your railroad start small, and gradually expand across America. You've got to run the game at a slow speed because there's so much to manage all at once, and so this expansion obviously happens quite gradually. But it's tremendously rewarding. Added to which, you must manage your own personal finances on the stockmarket. This feature detracts a little from the railroad side of things, but the two are interlinked in that if you run your railroad well, the price of your stock skyrockets. Concomitant with the stockmarket is the state of the economy: it follows a cycle that influences your company's profits, aggregate demand in the economy, and hence your price of stocks. You've got to factor all of this in when managing your personal wealth, and so you must buy low, sell high, issue stock at the right time, issue bonds, and raise or lower dividends depending on boom or recession. It's quite a complex procedure but, if you do it right, you can see your personal wealth skyrocket. Added to which, certain missions are won by you actually attaining a threshold of wealth, and not by expanding your railroad from one town to another. So ultimately, Railroad Tycoon 2 is a tremendously diverse and richly rewarding game. The presence of the stockmarket feature adds extra depth to what is already quite a complex game, and so it's suitable for critical thinkers and problem solvers. The hard difficulty provides a huge challenge (which I am currently undertaking), and the easy difficulty is challenging enough for novices. As a result, RT2 is suitable for anyone really, as long as you've got the patience to sit down and learn how to play it in the first place. One thing's for sure: it's well worth it.
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Summary: For All Train Enthusiasts
Review: RT2 is clearly one of the best strategy games ever. It manages to improve on the original in terms of graphics, playability, and detail. The most significant improvement from the original is the added locomotives and railroad barons. The AI is much more spohisticated and when playing on higher levels you can actually have your company taken over by a savvy computer player. I look forward to the improvement of this game when an RT3 is released. I would hope that even more industries would be added as well as a better stock market aspect (the ability to buy non-railroad industries in the stock market instead of buying them outright with one large cash purchase).
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Summary: If trains really run at that speed, I'd rather walk.
Review: Sure, Railroad Tycoon is original. But its main flaw (apart from the fact that you can't build tunnels) is how time, speed, and distance interact. In this game, you have a lot of different maps, all making use of different scales. Yet the trains always run at the same speed, which means that on a 500 x 500 map, no matter if Philadelphia is at one end of the map and Washington, D.C. is at the other, or if it's New York and Chicago in the same positions, the time it takes will always be the same. And in many cases we're talking game-years. A run between New York and Chicago using a 4-4-0 American-C running at 12 miles an hour will take six or seven game-years, and this will also be the case if you were to use the same engine, at the same speed, for a run between Philadelphia and Washington in the aforementioned example. For a run between Halifax and Vancouver, in Canada, the time taken will be approximately nine years. Ditto for a run between Paris and Constantinople on the Orient Express. Sure, train transportation was slow in those days, but at that speed, I'd rather walk. I'd arrive earlier. Only in the day-by-day time speed (used in some scenarios, such as Theodore Roosevelt's election campaign tour or wartime scenarios in the Second Century) does the time taken look realistic, but again the time changes with map scales. I give the game four stars for originality.
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Summary: Original, but...
Review: The idea of creating a game on railroad-building is excellent,but there are some flaws in this game, such as: 1) Time, distance,and the speed of engines are not coordinated. Overall, however, thisgame is innovative and I highly recommend it. END
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Summary: entertaining and challenging
Review: The scenarios are a huge plus to this game, you can set a "sand-box" mode where you play in a vacuum or go all out and throw in shares and customer rating. The middle levels are the most intriguing, but after you have completed 6 or so missions some of the sound files become a bit annoying. Prepare to mix up some sand...great for kids as well as adults.
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Summary: The awesomest game ever
Review: The strength of this game is displayed by how it is not available anywhere in the market as it is completely sold out! If you like simcity, you will like this better. If you are a railroad freak, then this is a must!!! Can play this game 100 million times and it still feels you are playing for the first time...Higly recommended!
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