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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.

This game's great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

i downloaded a demo for this game and i must say that it is great. It is extremely engrossing and i cant stop playing this game. it has almost no cons, but the only thing i find annoying is the bus accidents. Even though there are a lot of limitations in the demo, its still fun to play. the graphics are great, but the soundtrack could do with some improvement, as i have noticed with the demo. But if anyone is thinking about buying this game, then i would surely recommend it, and its definitely woth it!

Best game in a long time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best thing to happen to the U.S. in a long time. It'l teach people that there are other fun ways of getting around besides the automobile. America's love affair with the automobile has been the worst thing for the environment, and has created gridlock unimaginable 30 years ago. Traffic Giant will give us a new way of thinking.(a better and smarter one) Thank you JoWood.

Bought European release

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I own a copy of the full game (I bought the European version through a company in Memphis) The gameplay is very original. I especially enjoy being able to choose different difficulty settings and maps to play. My only complaint is that occasionally the game would crash (recently reformatted drive and re-installed. Haven't gotten around to playing again yet, so I don't know if the problem went away) and lock up my system. The patch and a fresh install of the video driver did help some, but the problem persisted. I'm hoping that the game will run better on the newly formatted drive with correct video drivers.

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

Traffic Giant The Best Simulation Game for Busses and Trains

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: July 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have both version the 1.0 which I bought from cdaccess.com and I just bought the us version 1.3 and have not experience any problems with the game at all on both version, all works with all the updates and patchs for 1.0 all the campaign works and it is great, I susgest if you haveing problems with your video card get one that has like 64 mb's of memory on it so it won't take up to many resorces of your machine, that can solve most of the freeze ups and get window XP when it comes out cuase windows 98, Me any of them on to long will with anygame you play to long will give you errors most of the time you just reboot machine and you can continue to play, you don't have to take my word for it all I know I have no problem with the game whats so ever. Go buy it, you won't be disappointed.

Extremely Addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One of those pc games you can't walk away from. I guarantee you'll get hooked once you start playing. I was doing some temp work in the Washington, DC metro area and fired up the game on my laptop (while I was waiting for my bus). One metrobus driver asked me what I was playing and I got a kick out of telling him I was planning bus routes! He shrugged his head and laughed...but I thought it was amusing.

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.

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 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!

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