Please, use the edit button so you don't have to doublepost. I wish someone could make something like OpenTTD but with graphics like in this game, that would totally rock! Overall it has more of a Theme Park type of game feel to it than a proper railways sim game like TTD/OpenTTD. The graphics are very nice as are the sounds. Industry/town growth is very limited and of course there is no scope for anything other than railways (no other forms of transport) Actually quite often they seem to get jammed up and eventually just pass through each other (even on the same piece of track) to get unjammed. You have no control over anything else, let alone putting signals down where you want. It basically boils down to just using one or two buttons (lay track/lay double track). The signals system and trying to make crossovers/junctions is a bit of a joke and pales compared to OpenTTD presignals and junctions system. You can only lay down track by connecting it to existing track. I've played Railroads! and it feels very simplistic by comparison. I guess I am too used to the control and choices in OpenTTD/TTD. This makes the gameplay A LOT more interesting than in RRT3. You can also bid for industries other players want to buy, everytime you or someone else starts buying a industry, a bidding process starts. The patent buying adds A LOT to the game, a company that can amass A LOT of beneficial patents is always assured to be in the lead. I think this is because the catenary would make the track harder to look at. Oh, and there is no catenary in the game, so electrics with pantographs can run without. Gamespy has a professional review of the game.Īnd that rating is what i would agree with. I'd say this game is worth buying, even if you hate the scale of trains & buildings, cause its not very disturbing during the very smoothly running gameplay of Railroads. The game under no circumstances is a direct clone of RRT3. Oh and cargo "annex" is cheaper than a station in a city, and all the Annex types have load animations for them & their associated wagons.Īlso cities have limited industry slots, each has three from what i can see, but this is only for manufacturing industries, supply industries like grain farms apperear outside cities, wich you must connect to, you can't haul the cargo from the nearest city. There are industry specific stations from what i've seen, and most of all the way trains load properly,a train goes car by car under a coal loader, and loading animations play as a car comes under the loader. All the locomotives have beatiful running sounds, the game looks good and runs impressively. I just got the game, and i must say i am impressed. Ah well, might aswell turn this into something meaningful.
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