Posted on: September 13, 2015
johannesaquila
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: Rezensionen: 6
User interface and tutorial from hell
A friend had recommended this game to me, so presumably there are some people for whom it is OK. But I wish I had not bought it. I got it significantly cheaper, along with lots of expansions, but these are useless to me since thirty years of playing computer games, a PhD in mathematics and a great motivation to play precisely this game with its great setting and beautiful graphics are clearly not enough to learn who to operate it. It also takes the kind of patience that is normally required to learn to play a musical instrument. Just as an illustration of the problems: This is probably the only game I ever played in which I was unable to finish the tutorial because it was too hard. The tutorial tells you to build a metro line, which should be doable because at that point you can already build bus lines and tram lines. It isn't. You have to do certain things in certain ways now, but of course in a game that is clearly proud of its unintuitive interface the tutorial lets you figure this out by yourself. And each time you guess wrong, you run out of money. So you must restart the tutorial and suffer again through the explanations of scrolling and panning, building bus lines and tram lines etc. Suffer, not rush, as the poor user interface and errors in the tutorial make sure you need your full concentration and a lot of time before you get to metro building again. I never figured it out. IIRC, after several attempts I had a metro line connecting two stations but could not add trains to it. I don't know why because the 'tutorial' obviously never bothered to mention this detail any more than the countless others I finally found somehow. Actual games (without metro lines, of course) were no fun either. The fight against the user interface always dominated any other challenges the game may provide. Did I mention the beautiful graphics and the extremely appealing idea of creating public transport in an existing city? Sigh.
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