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- Real-Time Action: Lay track, route the trains, and the world comes to life. Cities and industries grow up around you as you service them, hauling raw materials to market and carrying manufactured goods away. Cargos are loaded onto train cars and passengers shuffle between cities.
- Easy to Get Started: Laying track is as easy as clicking and dragging. Bridges, tunnels, railroad stations and switches sprout up automatically where they're needed.
- Challenging to Master: With a new market system that tracks supply and demand and complex random events that can cause a boom or bust at any time, players must stay on their toes at all times or risk obsolescence, financial collapse, or hostile takeover.
- It's All about the Trains!: Over 30 trains to use, from the primitive 0-4-0 Planet to the Super powerful 4-6-6-4 Challenger, from the classic diesels to ultra-modern bullet trains.
- LocoBuilder: Design your own steam engine from the ground up, and deploy it across your rail empire! Customise your train liveries, from color schemes to custom logos.
- We've Got the Goods: Over 20 different goods to harvest, produce, and sell, and 30 unique industries, from lumber mills to war factories, each with detailed, unique animations.
- Scenario and Map Editor support: Enables user-created maps and scenarios. Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines? No problem!
- Something for Everyone: Build your dream train layout in train table mode, or challenge historical giants like Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and others in single-player scenarios.
- Multiplayer: Ruthless real-time LAN and Internet play. Buy out your rivals or cash in favors to sabotage their shipments! Whether you prefer heads-up competition or the camaraderie of cooperative team play, you'll find a fantastic multiplayer experience here.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads! comes home to its original creator, the legendary Sid Meier, who, together with his team at Firaxis Games, will take this game to a whole new level of fun!
The greatest railroad building game of all time is back in a vibrant 3D world delivering exciting multiplayer options, in-game customization tools, streamlined interface and unmatched gameplay, that's easy to learn yet challenging to master. Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, Sid Meier's Railroads! puts you in charge of building the greatest rail empire in the nation - managing trains, cargo and your bottom line - while engaging in all-out corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs, and robber barons!
Average rating (16 reviews)
Its a gift...
shassell | 26/04/2009 | See all shassell's reviews (1) »
Got this for my son to have a play about with... Gonna have a go myself. Great game with detailed graphics and at this price its an absolute bargain.
Brilliant Gameplay
SeanUSXo | 11/08/2008 | See all SeanUSXo's reviews (1) »
This game combines great 3-D graphics with highly addictive gameplay. The AI is very clever, and you have to play the stock market well, in addition to building your railway. It is historically accurate, with trains becoming available for purchase in the correct years. Every game is also unique, as the AI players will never make the same moves twice.
As soon as you buy it, make sure that you update it with the patch available on the website. The patch allows for complete 3D zoom when paused, as well as adding a terrain editor to the game (although this must be enabled by the player). A 'holiday' update is also available, adding Lapland to the list of scenarios, where you deliver cookies and presents using two new trains.
Its only downfall I would say is that it is not truly compatible with Vista. I have tried many things to get round it, but the game continues to crash after only 5-10 minutes of gameplay - still playable, but annoying!
But all in all, a very good game!
Vista problem ? NO !
PhilipK | 05/08/2008 | See all PhilipK's reviews (9) »
Can't understand the reviewer saying it has problems under Vista.
I had none - also just right click, properties, compatability, run under XP and also run as administrator.
Sorts out 80% of Vista-run probs.
I didn't need to with this however.
Ran fine.
Good game.
But I am a train driver in real life.....
3+ (PEGI) | |
Windows 2000 / XP with DirectX 9.0c (included) |
