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Excellent graphics & strategy elements compared to original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are amazing on all detail levels of this game and incorporates even more elements that must be overcome to be successful. The amount of options of maps and economies, etc is much improved from the first game. This is not for the amateur gamer, if you expect to succeed at this game, you must be willing to fail at it many times before you get the nack of everything. Even on the easy setting, it is quite complicated. The game is much better than the first version, although one element of the game I did not particular like was the territory use rights. I should not have to spend one million dollars to use Italy's land. It may be more realistic, but it is a pain in expansion when you only need one mine or one city over a border to pay for the whole county.

Railroad Tycoon II

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Very involving strategy game, has a good tutorial to supplement it. But very hard and quite frustrating.

Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Love this game as well as part two never really appreciated trains until I started playing this game. Good history lesson.

A Railfan Must

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have the original, and when this came out I wasted no time in purchasing it. The enhancements lifted many of the restrictions of the original. The only disappointment is that Tycoon II does not allow one to build tunnels. The graphics are fantastic, the animations are super, the backgrounds sounds are nice, and the challenge all absorbing. The ability to change settings based on your machines power is an excellent feature. When I bought a new machine stepped up the graphic definition and animation. The animations are cool! There are so many options, scenarios, and maps, surely someone who enjoys railroading will find several of these to keep them busy for hours on end. But its not just a "railroad" game. It challenges your business sense. Its about personal investing and wise business expansion. You have to make business decisions every step of the way. You can go bankrupt or be the tycoon and anything in between. Summary, fun, challenging, stimulating, and entertaining. Now I am goin' for the 'GOLD' That is RR TYCOON II Gold edition!

Entertainment that lasts for hours and hours.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like games were I can build my cities my way, control everything, monopolize everything. If you are looking for hours of non stop fun you have to get this game. This game doesnt only challenges your ability to run a company smoothly but it makes you feel like youre the head of a major RR corporation. I srongly recommend this game.

Dont get it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is worth about 28 hours of good play than it realy gets boring. It isnt proportional eather if you play a scenario game and make a 6 car train, it would stretch from Millwalkie to Chicago. The graphics are very good and so is the sound but, thats the best part of the game. I give this game 2 stars.

Highly addictive at first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun the first time you play it, except laying railroads and building the same towns over and over again gets boring. I immediately started searching for cheats, which give the game a little more boost, but it was collecting dust in about a month. Dont waist your money. If you think you would like this game buy Roller Coaster Tycoon instead.

Saying the truth!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have never heard about this game, but one day, I saw it on a shelf, in a computer store. Iv'e read about it and it sounded really fun. It sounded really fun to build a train company, and to build train stations but when i really tried it, it was so hard, and it wasn't fun. It's hard to understand the investments thing and you are loosing all of your money in 5 minutes. I dont understand why is everybody saying that this game is good, cause this game is bad. VERY BAD! VERY, VERY BAD! Who can prove that i'm wrong? a couple of days after i bought i started to use cheats in the game because it is too hard. This game should get 0 starts, it should get nothing. So... Dont buy it because you'll just be waisting your money!!

Brother, can you spare a dime?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I never could get this game chugging on more than one cylinder. The manual is irrevelant and no outside game helps are published (I've looked for more than a year). Play the stockmarket ??? Forget about it ... If you are not into the esoterica of steam trains or stupid country music, the computer steals the fun and always has you dead to rights. Historical trade and industrial patterns are treated very lightly indeed. I like to able to play the game, but I couldn't make it do anything.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. The sound is good and so is the graphics. If you like RTC you will like this game. It is a hard game but it is fun. You can play the stock market. There are all kinds of trains. There are some cheat codes so you can get more money. I very highly recommend this game.

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