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Sid Meier's Railroads (PC CD) | 
| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Seller: crunchbusters
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 3229
Platform: Windows XP
Genre: tycoon-strategy-games
ESRB: Adults Only
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 21967
EAN: 5026555051354
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
Railroad Tycoon returns in all but name as Sid Meier reinvents the series and business sims in general with completely real-time gameplay and surprisingly impressive graphics. The lowdown:
This may be the latest in a long line of Railroad Tycoon games but it actually plays very differently from the slow paced turn-based games of old. Everything occurs in real-time as you race to compete one of the preset objectives from around the world and from the 19th century onwards. Starting with a single train depot in the middle of nowhere you have to build up your rail network until you control not just transport but all the industries connected to it. This becomes particularly important when you're playing online against real players as you all compete to service the biggest cities and be first to take advantage of new technology. The premise may sound dull but the game itself will make a trainspotter of anyone. Most exciting moment:
As complex as the game may sound what makes it popular with ordinary gamers is that it's actually extremely easy to play. Despite the influence you have on cities and factories you only ever actually lay down tracks and stations and the computer handles the rest automatically. It also helps that the graphics are really good for what initially sounds like a dull strategy game. Since you ask:
Sid Meier, the man behind Civilization, pretty much invented the business simulator with the original Railroad Tycoon in 1990. Developer Frixais, which Sid help to found, is now owned by publisher Take-Two who also own the rights to the Railroad Tycoon name. Oddly the company decided not to reuse it for this revamp. The bottom line:
Sid Meier returns to the age of steam with the biggest train set ever made.-HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Fun game, stability issues September 9, 2010
Patrick
In short this game is very fun. For the 'uber' serious railway simulator who likes 100% realism this is probably not for you. However, for those of us who just want to kill some time with a highly addictive game this is great. The single player scenarios are over quickly but you have the ability to switch on the map maker to build your own maps. A word of warning though, this game suffers serious stability issues while running on vista. A 3GB enabler helps to some degree, but i have found you will need to close all background programs to run this game without it crashing.
Despite this serious (and I must stress that) issue railroads is a solid fun game to kill a few hours with!
Where is the realism? May 22, 2010
Kim Leonard Smouter (Bruxelles, Belgique)
I have to say I miss the realism of Railroad Tycoon. I have a hard time buying into the game when there are bridges which just would never happen in real life. Aside from this, the game is all right, but I haven't been so drawn in that I want to play it for hours and hours. Glad Amazon allowed me to get it at a very cheap price, otherwise I would have felt a little cheated.
 Brilliant but the manual is RUBBISH! March 12, 2010
This is a very good game in itself, but you have to get used to saving every few seconds, in case it comes up with an error (which it does very frequently). Apart from that it is great. The manual, however is very different. It is full of mistakes, for example: It says that the Great Britain Scenario covers the majority of Great Britain. This is a LIE! It only just about covers half of England and Wales. The North of England, Scotland, The Isle of White and The Isle of Man are not there. It doesn't even show Land's End.
But aside from the disapointing manual, it is on the whole a very good game.
Not bad. January 2, 2010
S. Walker (Scotland)
Although this game isn't serious I really enjoy it. The graphics are great and the audio is excellent too. But one downside is that the maps are smaller than Railroad Tycoon 3. There's just not enough cities on any of them and the british one looks especially bare. According to this game there is no Scotland.
Great expectations gone with the wind October 16, 2009
P. Chondropoulos (Greece)
I've read many reviews of SMRailroads!, most of them pointing to the superb graphics in contradiction to the lack of many features already existing in previous SM releases. I tend to second this opinion.
Apart of the lack of an editor, also annoying is the unrealistic dimensioning. Although distances are unreasonably "shortened", the time-scale is badly accelerated, leading to routes of i.e. 20 km to take a whole year! This in turn leads to very short game sessions, not very suitable for the online multiplayer gaming I think.
I admit to be a Railroad Tycoon 3 fan and devoted user - especially in map editing - and will remain there, no matter how addictive the new game might be. Of course RT3 needed upgrading but as for SMR! being the answer, it proved to be my great expectations gone with the wind, I'm afraid.
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