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Video Cards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This program did not work with my video card. Buyers are well advised to check the Microsoft site to see if the program will work with their video card. There are a number of them that it won't work with. I couldn't even get the patch to work.

Great for any age rail buff

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For anyone who dreams of train travel, passenger or freight, this product will draw you into hours of vicarious travel adventure. Not just a kid toy. Especially good with add-ons such as 3DTrains.

MS Train Simulator Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

One word...FANTASTIC! I grew up in Glendive Montana, a railroad town, listening to the old steamers noisily chuffing and rolling around the yard and along the main line day and nite, and found engineering the steamers a long longed for experience, nearly real, particularly the Orient Express engine. THe BNSF mountain run through Montana was equally as stimulating. Way to go Microsoft! Sure I could pick it apart...nothing is perfect...but I won't...'cause it's a great package...I am one satisfied customer!

Good Game, But NO Manual

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First off let me say this, this game is alot of fun to play. It just takes a while to learn. You would think for close to $50 they would include some sort of paper manual. NOPE! All they give you is a keyboard command reference card and a weak map of the routes you will be running on. There is a manual on disk in Adobe format, if you want to waste 96 pages of your own paper printing it. Over all the game is decent, just wish Microsoft would have thown in a decent manual like they have for thier other games in the past.

Not good and no fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Boring.. waited for this along time and now discover that you cannot control any trip at all.. very unlike the flight sim. just the same old routine again and again.

save your hard earned money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

interesting only because its different. has an empty "half finished " feel to it.

The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love it. I have always liked trains. I have a train layout. But Train Simulator is great! I have not done any activities yet, but getting ready. This is a must have for ANY train aficianado!

Union Pacific Railroad Grow Up!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm so mad and angry I could scream. Union Pacific railroad does not want any of their stuff put into Microsoft Train Simulation because they think that if someone operates one of their trains in the simulation, that person will run right out to the nearest Union Pacific railroad yard and try to steal one of their trains. John Bromley, Public Affairs Director for Union Pacific Railroad, said the company will pursue anyone who uses their name or logo. Bromley said Microsoft approach him about helping to develop Train Simulation and he said their was no way in hell he was going to help. He is afraid either a computer gamer or a model railroader will go out and try to steal one of their trains after playing this simulation. He said that he real concern about putting a simulation out like this out in the open market that shows the public how to operate a train locomotive. Bromley saids he knows that their are plane simulations out there already and he doesn't have a problem with that. Bromley saids the US Navy doesn't leave F-16's laying around in remote areas ready to be stolen. My question is how come Union Pacific doesn't have better security and safe guards to prevent their trains and equipment from being stolen? And why does he think all computer gamers and model railroaders are thieves?

Train simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I entered the microsoft competion for the train sim, and won. I work the english railways and was unsure what to expect. I recieved the game this morning 7/7/01. First go i was amazed at how much attention was paid to the details on this product and the realism which draws you in the game. When i first learnt of this product i was unsure what to think and was hesitant to purchase it, after trying this product i will without reservation reccomend this to everyone. If you are an enthusiast or just curious about the railways it is a must, it is like the flight sim by microsoft, once you start you just cannot stop. In a nut shell, outstanding. Happy driving.

Microsoft Train Simulator

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great concept - wonderful game - but.... the game crashes everytime you play and takes forever to download - so where are the brilliant IT guys that created it. And guess what, when you call for assistance, they have absolutely no concept of how to fix the problem. This game has so much potential too bad it doesn't work. How about recreating the game ... and, oh, let's see, can you make it work this time, so it doesn't crash your system.

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