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RailRoad Tycoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A great game with with good graphics. Pick any city in the world to start with! Also some made-up maps. You can make your own maps by using the map editor.

"We were waving our arms out the window"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In the Addams Family movies, Gomez would blow off steam by "playing" with his model trains -- smashing them into each other so that the explosions would reverberate throughout the mansion. The first Railroad Tycoon allowed you to do this by fiddling with track signals, but the trains were blocky little things, so the impact was underwhelming.

The opening footage to Railroad Tycoon 2 implies that some gnarly train wreckage is on your way. Indeed, the game has some beautiful trains, puffing and zipping their way through impressionist landscapes. Tragically, one can only deliberately crash a train by failing to properly maintain it. A destroyed train is a solitary event (no impact with another train), and instead of car after car piling up after the train has fallen off the tracks, the destroyed train sits on the track -- blocking traffic -- and then disappears in a puff of smoke. What a letdown!

Mind you, this is about the only way that Railroad Tycoon 2 has fallen down. It is highly customizable, and it is graphically beautiful. It comes with a challenging campaign and dozens of scenarios. The map editor allows for some sophisticated rendering of real landscapes taken from satellite data. Dozens of scenarios are available on the Internet, so this investment might be one of the best entertainment values out there.

There is increased flexibility in the corporate financial model, and some of the AIs are truly vicious, but you can simply turn them off in the scenarios. Even if you can't play smash-'em-up with the trains, there is plenty of havoc that you can wreak as you try to crush the economic dreams of your opponents and, of course, the thousands of railroad employees working for you.

Jamie

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I can't say it any better then ... did, but I will say if you haven't bought it yet go out right now. IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER!

entertaining and challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The scenarios are a huge plus to this game, you can set a "sand-box" mode where you play in a vacuum or go all out and throw in shares and customer rating.

The middle levels are the most intriguing, but after you have completed 6 or so missions some of the sound files become a bit annoying.

Prepare to mix up some sand...great for kids as well as adults.

It's ok

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 62
Date: December 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It's awesome even though i never played it, it sounds cool. Is it like Rollercoaster Tycon?

If trains really run at that speed, I'd rather walk.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: May 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sure, Railroad Tycoon is original. But its main flaw (apart from the fact that you can't build tunnels) is how time, speed, and distance interact. In this game, you have a lot of different maps, all making use of different scales. Yet the trains always run at the same speed, which means that on a 500 x 500 map, no matter if Philadelphia is at one end of the map and Washington, D.C. is at the other, or if it's New York and Chicago in the same positions, the time it takes will always be the same. And in many cases we're talking game-years. A run between New York and Chicago using a 4-4-0 American-C running at 12 miles an hour will take six or seven game-years, and this will also be the case if you were to use the same engine, at the same speed, for a run between Philadelphia and Washington in the aforementioned example. For a run between Halifax and Vancouver, in Canada, the time taken will be approximately nine years. Ditto for a run between Paris and Constantinople on the Orient Express. Sure, train transportation was slow in those days, but at that speed, I'd rather walk. I'd arrive earlier.

Only in the day-by-day time speed (used in some scenarios, such as Theodore Roosevelt's election campaign tour or wartime scenarios in the Second Century) does the time taken look realistic, but again the time changes with map scales.

I give the game four stars for originality.

The awesomest game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: April 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The strength of this game is displayed by how it is not available anywhere in the market as it is completely sold out!

If you like simcity, you will like this better. If you are a railroad freak, then this is a must!!!

Can play this game 100 million times and it still feels you are playing for the first time...Higly recommended!

Awsome!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Railroad Tycoon II Gold is one of the best ALL TIME VIDEO GAME experiences for the more adult consumer. Super graphics/sound and the sophisticated gameplay will really test your management skills. Build, maintain, and manage your own railroad empire. Cutthroat competition and a great stock market interface adds to the challenge and fun. This game could easily be used as a primary university teaching aid for general economics, capitalism, business management, investment theory, industrial engineering, and even history. Fantastic!

The most addictive game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like trains, there is no way you shouldn't buy this game.
BEWARE: This game is known to cause sleepless nights...

RailRoad Tycoon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A great game with with good graphics. Pick any city in the world to start with! Also some made-up maps. You can make your own maps by using the map editor.

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