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Good game, but needs some fixing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In Traffic Giant, you get to run busses, trams (streetcars), trains, suspended monorails and mag-levs. The cities are very detailed and the game is hard to tear yourself away from. It is similar to "SimCity" (so I have heard), but Traffic Giant focuses on the transportation. I had always wanted a game that combined trains and buses into one, and I guess I've found it. The videos are cool, too, and many times I just want to watch the videos and nothing else! But the game itself is very fun.

I would have rated this game 5 stars overall except it has a few problems. The main one, as you have read in other reviews, is that it freezes constantly. There isn't any reason for it crashing, either. You're just playing the game and then right out of the blue, the sounds stop and everything freezes. You can't activate any of the buttons or even get out of it with CTRL-ALT-DELETE! So you have to shut down the computer the wrong way and of course that's bad. Although different times the game does different things. Sometimes it freezes and sometimes it doesn't. But I've observed many times that Traffic Giant freezes at the year 6, EVERY TIME, preventing your step-up to trains, monorails and mag-levs! So I had to go into the game's files and change them so all the vehicles could be bought at the year 0. It's a pain, but it's not that bad when you're expecting it. I also heard that the patches on trafficgiant.com don't fix it either. I havn't tried any of them, but they probably don't.

Don't get this game. Wait until Transport Giant comes to this country. It's about the same thing, it's got more to offer, and it looks extremely updated.

The detailed & urban version of "A-train"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like Mass transit and traffic and all that, then you'll love this game. I've read many reviews where they said the computer kept crashing, or it would crash when a new mode of transit would be available, but aside from that (because I never faced those problems) it is a good game for the "trafficly minded".

First off, they got so many different missions each mission is different in a way that it makes each city feel unique. Depending on what mode you choose, they start you out with a limited number of Mass transit vehicles, each with different passenger capacities. As the game progresses and you start making more money and making people happy, more advanced vehicles start coming in. They have everything from 10 passenger transit vans to 20-40 passenger basic buses, 30 & 45 passenger hydro-diesel buses, 80 passenger double decker buses, even a special 15 passenger hydro electric shuttle bus (way later in the game), different types of LRV's (Light rail vehicles--trolleys, trams, etc...), Heavy rail, Monorail, and suspension trains... you name it

Missions include making a certain amount of money in a certain period of time, or reaching a certain company value in a certain time period and stuff like that.

Buildings come from all over, they have lots of medieval looking buildings that give some of the cities a unique blend because they do a good job mixing the historic with the contemporary (modern). As for city types, they have so many different types and sometimes, they'll give you only a certain district of a big city to play with. But overall, there are urban areas, suburban, industrial, tourist-oriented, downtowns, residential areas, some residential areas with tall co-op apartment buildings with hundreds of people trying to get on your buses, rural areas with small towns spread out, I can't name them all off the top of my head but there are a lot.

Of course, the more buses you have on your map, the slower the speed will run. The computer I use to play this game isn't all that great, but the game works perfectly on it. When I start having about 25 bus routes, with maybe 7 buses on each route, thats when it starts slowing down. Another good thing though is that you even get to name your bus routes, and the route name doesn't have to match the name of the street the bus travels on so you can use your imagination.

In a way, this game can help you in real life with things like budgeting or how hard it is to keep a transit system running well. Like in the game, you do have the choice of placing only a sign at a bus stop outside a large apartment block or a heated bus shelter near a farm... its up to you but obviously one would be a big waste, the other- a big nusciance. Another big (real life) nusciance is waiting 20 minutes for a "frequent" bus and then 3 of them come in a row. The game even lets you control things like this so each of the buses come evenly

The bad part. Only things that suck about this game is how when you have too many buses on the screen at one time, it starts slowing down [but i guess that depends on the computer].
If you play this game for the first time, then its gonna be kinda tough getting used to the menus and all because the instructions are all in symbols but its simple tho.
Also, they need a part 2 where everything, includin the graphics, would be advanced and it would be even better if you'd be able to create your own city. The graphics ain't bad now, but an advanced version would be better. But overall, I like the game.

Crashes for me too

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just bought it - it crashes. It happens when I am trying to build the more advanced transportation (trains, trams, etc). I wish there was a fix - it was a good game up until the constant crashes. What a dissapointment.

Great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

So few good games these days have such low system requirements: 233mhz, 32MB RAM, 2MB Video, 4x CD-ROM, 240MB space. I purchased this game and installed it on my 800mhz, 320MB RAM, XP Pro system and it works perfectly. Though I haven't attempted to install any of the patches/updates yet. Great job JoWood! You may have a new return customer.

One of my favorites

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hey-The first day I got this, I spent 2 hours playing and got past 2 levels. Its challenging, but not that challenging that you get so frusterated that you cant bea tthe level....Its 5/10 on how hard it is-Fun, i give it a 9/10-Let me get you better understanding on what you do-Your the manager of a citys transportation-You can sit and watch the city from overview and watch where people go and all that junk, or you can build bus routes. This means you but a bus stop at every spot you want the bus to stop. So basiclly your making the route. You buy the bus and then you set the ticket prices, how much you pay the drivers (the more you pay the better driver and the friendlyer they will be)-You see if one stop has 40 people and another has 2, you can build another bus route in that same spot to make waiting time lower. You do the same exact things with trains!!! Overall, I highly suggest this game, i am having lots of fun with it, it was completly worth the money! Randy

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun, addictive game that uses strategy to make money. 2 thumbs up!

I LOVE IT!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've read some other reviews about the game crashing, its because you need to download the patches and also loook at the system requirements!!! To download the patches, I used [a website] and its NEVER crashes after I installes the patches. Okay, about the game, its really cool and I think it would be a great investment because it brings you hours of fun and mabey about 3 seconds of boredom when it loads!!! It also has good graphics and ok sound. When you want to choose a line and you have a lot of them, you have to keep on pushing the right arrow or left arrow which is annoying to most, but not to me!!! I basically LOVE this game and I recommend buying it!!! I've seen it in a store for [more] but Amozon.com has it for [less]!!!...

Great strategy game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: January 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think that when people say "The game is not working, don't buy it," they should rather say "The game is not working ON MY SYSTEM, *I* wish I hadn't bought it..."

Traffic Giant(US Gold Edition), with the latest patch 1.4, is working fine on my system (Win98, 128 MB RAM.) I have not experienced a single crash in many hours of gameplay, either when playing Campaigns or Endless games.

The game has very nice graphics and ok sound but, most of all, it is a lot of fun! Each map presents a very different challenge and the layouts of the many available cities are very interesting. It is a pleasure to just look at the cities, with its pedestrians, traffic and cute animations.

The only reasons I gave this game 4 stars instead of 5 are:

1. I wish the game had a map editor, to create our own city layouts.

2. The interface of the game could have been better. For instance:

I particularly dislike the fact that only up and down arrows are available to scroll through our lists of vehicles and lines, when it should also have had a scrollbar! It's ok at the beginning of the game, but when you have many vehicles and lines, it's a pain to find what you want using the up and down arrows...

Also badly designed is the "Create new line" option: the command is only available at the top of the list of lines, and then you have to click the "Build" button. This means that you must first scroll the list of lines to the top (with that stupid up arrow -- no scrollbar available!) and then click the "Build" button. Why didn't the designers include a "New Line" button instead is a mystery... At least they could have added a keyboard shortcut for it.

I also dislike the fact that we can't click on a line in the list to automatically jump to it on the map.

Aside from that, I'm enjoying the game immensely! :)

Great Game with crash problem

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Trust the other guy's review and mine: This game crash without reasons. This is an addictive and fun game, but it is so annoying that it keeps crashing my computer. Buy it at your own risk.

Great Game with lots of Problems... Don't buy it!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

After playing this game several times, I found it to be a lot of fun, but then it started having problems. It randomly freezes or crashes with no explanation. If you check the JoWood website you can see in their support forum that this is a problem that many are having and that is being ignored. This really shows a problem on their part.

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