I guess I am too used to the control and choices in OpenTTD/TTD. This makes the gameplay A LOT more interesting than in RRT3. You can also bid for industries other players want to buy, everytime you or someone else starts buying a industry, a bidding process starts. The patent buying adds A LOT to the game, a company that can amass A LOT of beneficial patents is always assured to be in the lead. I think this is because the catenary would make the track harder to look at. Oh, and there is no catenary in the game, so electrics with pantographs can run without. Gamespy has a professional review of the game.Īnd that rating is what i would agree with. I'd say this game is worth buying, even if you hate the scale of trains & buildings, cause its not very disturbing during the very smoothly running gameplay of Railroads. The game under no circumstances is a direct clone of RRT3. Oh and cargo "annex" is cheaper than a station in a city, and all the Annex types have load animations for them & their associated wagons.Īlso cities have limited industry slots, each has three from what i can see, but this is only for manufacturing industries, supply industries like grain farms apperear outside cities, wich you must connect to, you can't haul the cargo from the nearest city. There are industry specific stations from what i've seen, and most of all the way trains load properly,a train goes car by car under a coal loader, and loading animations play as a car comes under the loader. All the locomotives have beatiful running sounds, the game looks good and runs impressively. I just got the game, and i must say i am impressed. It’s a bit less rewarding for a player looking for challenge, but it’s great for little kids or for some low-key fun when you just want to pretend you’re running the train set you got for the holidays.Ah well, might aswell turn this into something meaningful. If you don’t want to be bothered with all the economic stuff, Sid Meier’s Railroads includes a “train table mode” that just lets you lay track and connect cities and towns. If you purchase the game through the Mac App Store, you can also use Game Center to find opponents. GameRanger service, or over your local network if there are other players nearby. If you prefer opponents of the human variety, Sid Meier’s Railroads lets you play online over the Internet through the free You’ll also have to duke it out at auctions for control of patents that help you keep railroad costs under control (a special device that reduces the cost of tunnels, for example), or if you bid on the myriad industries that pop up in the towns and cities you connect (a power plant near a bustling city, for example). You’ll mainly have to contend with them laying track and foiling your plans with their own rail lines. If you run short of cash you can issue stock so will your opponents (you can buy theirs, and vice versa). So Sid Meier’s Railroads lets you play against AI-controlled rivals-railroad barons like Of course, playing at being a rail baron gets boring pretty fast in a vacuum. There’s a lot of juggling required to make sure your railway is getting everything to where it needs to go, and the businesses that you’ve invested in are making money. Sid Meier’s Railroads is less of a hardcore economic simulation than some of the recent Railroad Tycoon games have been, but there’s still plenty of challenge there.
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