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Sid Meier's Railroads! (PC Games)
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Firaxis |
| Current Sales Rank: | #76 in Games | | Current Sales Rank: | #175 Overall | | All-Time Sales Rank: | #221 Overall |
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Product Description
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads! comes home to its original creator, the legendary Sid Meier, who, together with his team at Firaxis Games, will take this game to a whole new level of fun!
The greatest railroad building game of all time is back in a vibrant 3D world delivering exciting multiplayer options, in-game customization tools, streamlined interface and unmatched gameplay, that's easy to learn yet challenging to master. Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, Sid Meier's Railroads! puts you in charge of building the greatest rail empire in the nation - managing trains, cargo and your bottom line - while engaging in all-out corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs, and robber barons!
Features:
- Real-time action – lay track, route the trains, and the world comes to life. Cities and industries grow up around you as you service them, hauling raw materials to market and carrying manufactured goods away; Cargos are loaded onto train cars and passengers shuffle between cities.
- Easy to get started – laying track is as easy as clicking and dragging. Bridges, tunnels, railroad stations and switches sprout up automatically where they're needed.
- Challenging to master – with a new market system that tracks supply and demand and complex random events that can cause a boom or bust at any time, players must stay on their toes at all times or risk obsolescence, financial collapse, or hostile takeover.
- It's all about the trains! – over 30 trains to use, from the primitive 0-4-0 Planet to the Super powerful 4-6-6-4 Challenger, from the classic diesels to ultra-modern bullet trains.
- LocoBuilder – design your own steam engine from the ground up, and deploy it across your rail empire! Customize your train liveries, from color schemes to custom logos.
- We've got the goods – over 20 different goods to harvest, produce, and sell, and 30 unique industries, from lumber mills to war factories, each with detailed, unique animations.
- Scenario and map editor support – enables user-created maps and scenarios. Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines? No problem!
- Something for everyone – build your dream train layout in train table mode, or challenge historical giants like Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and others in single-player scenarios.
- Multiplayer – Ruthless real-time LAN and Internet play. Buy out your rivals or cash in favors to sabotage their shipments! Whether you prefer heads-up competition or the camaraderie of cooperative team play, you'll find a fantastic multiplayer experience here.
Customer Reviews
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Utterly dissapointing
 Reviewed by Nick from Auckland, NZ on September 19th, 2007
This game does not live up to the legacy it was built upon. Railroads! is supposedly the successor to the Railroad Tycoon trilogy, however, it falls short.
It's an extreamly simple game; there are none of the economic complexities that made RRT great. It's more like a successor to Transport Tycoon but without the routing complexity that made TT challenging.
All in all, this gets 2/5 rather than 1/5 because it is rather a pretty game.
If all you want is a simple train-set on your PC, get this - it's no more nor less that the train-set you had as a child.
If you're after the challenge of operating a railroad, get RRT3. If you want finer grained grained control of each train, get Transport Tycoon.
Fast paced railroading
 Reviewed by Anonymous from Auckland, NZ on December 2nd, 2006
Enjoyable game play, at a much faster pace than other Railroad/Transport Tycoon games. Upgrades and events during the game have significant impact and the effect of each is clearly explained. Building is easy, and there is enough depth for good replay value. Probably not so much for someone who demands utmost realism, this is less detailed than other games in the genre, but much more accessible. So is it "perfect"? Not yet: I had some problems with 1.0/1.1 crashing and there are a few quirks about the way trains operate. I have given 5 stars in the hope that Firaxis will fix these issues with a 1.2 patch soon.
Awesome fun
Reviewed by Jennifer from Auckland, NZ on October 28th, 2006
I played the demo of this - and enjoyed it thoroughly. Don't tell me you didn't have trains when you were little! You can either build your dream tracks, or compete against other rail-entrepreneurs in cut-throat competition. Many differnt trains, and has room for alot of fun!
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Release date: 24th July, 2008.
List price: AU$29.95.
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