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Sid Meier's Railroads (PC CD) | 
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| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
Buy Used: £2.98
You Save: £17.01 (85%)
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 3530
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: tycoon-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555051354
EAN: 5026555051354
ASIN: B000F72C2C
Release Date: October 26, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: UK Release. Complete with Manual. Disc in Perfect Condition.
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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: Read 10 more reviews...
 Disregard the Killjoys May 20, 2007
Edward
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Well, I was nearly put off by these reviews. I'm glad i wasn't.
I've played all the Railroad Tycoon series, frankly i'm not a diehard gamer, i like to play for fun, not to beat competition. Quite frankly the depth of previous versions I never used.
If you ever wanted the perfect train set, beautifully done - this is it.
not the sort of train set involved in the minutiae of schedules, this is more iconic.
There are enough trains here to fill the gameplay, The graphics are gorgeous, and there just wouldn't be time to fit in any further depth to the game, even so, it often happens that you've just caught up with replacing your fleet with the newest engine and a new locomotive is released.
All in all the game is finely judged, all the elements fairly blended.
And there are two patches available to fix and upgrade the game - plus an extra scenario.
JUST GOOD FUN June 26, 2007
Badger
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
So this isn't the tycoon type game it's just really good fun and the graphics are great had no trouble would recommend 100%
 Not for 'tycoonists' December 12, 2006
D. Ryalls (Leeds, UK)
32 out of 33 found this review helpful
This is NOT Railroad Tycoon 4. The rating (age 3+), and the avoidance by the publishers or creators of putting 'Tycoon' in the title should warn fans of the RRT franchise off this game. If you're expecting a game with the depth of previous versions of Railroad Tycoon, you're going to be very disappointed.
This is "Railroad Tycoon Lite". No sophisticated stock market, (no opportunities to buy long or short), simple 'supply chain' for freight (no need to take iron AND coal somewhere to make steel).
But by stripping away all the complexity of previous Railroad Tycoons, what's left is a fun game to play. Great for kids, not much here for strategy game lovers.
Good October 28, 2006
Mr. A. Mcgregor (Devon, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Railroads? Perhaps a better name would be Railroad Tycoon 4, which I'm sure it would be if the makers still had the license. But despite the fact that the creators of Railroad Tycoon 3 are different to Railroads, it does still feel like a sequel.
Sid Meier and Microprose made the original Railroad Tycoon, but the license was then taken over by Pop Top, who made very respectable RT2 & RT3's. Railroads seems to have learnt all the lessons from those games. The worst part of those (in my opinion at least) was micro-mangement- finding resources, deciding how many carriages, etc. In railroads most of it is gone- you put your cursor over a town/ city, and it will tell you what it demands, what it processes, and even points in the direct of the demanded resources.
Don't make any mistake though, Railroads isn't a simple game, and is as more an economic simulation than a railway simulation; the best way to make money is not only to lay track, but also to buy industries and supply them with wat they need, then ship those products to a town that wants them.
This is a great game, and will be a challenge for most people. One thing I will say though, the graphics are fantastic (they appear to have used the same game engine as for Pirates! and Civ4), but the game will not reasonably run on anything less than 2GHz machine with 1GHz RAM.
 No Quantum Leap November 7, 2006
B. P. E. Fisk (Wiltshire, England)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
I have owned and used every version of Railroad Tycoon. In some ways this is better than Railroad Tycoon - for instance the graphics are great fun and the detailed control of track laying provides much food for thought. In other ways it is worse - train scheduling leaves the user puzzled with trains stopped for no good reason or running over the top of each other. Several times the program has abended. It is annoying is that you need a wheel mouse otherwise you can't zoom - there is no keyboard or pointer option. I don't like the fact that you have to start your railroad from a random location decided by the computer - this means that difficulty of scenarios is a matter of luck. I do think the testers could have done a better job.
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