Posted on: September 9, 2021

doc-b

Spiele: 286 Rezensionen: 9

Buggy as hell!

Well, if you do like tabeltop-trainsets this game will give you a few happy hours of play. But if you're more into the simulationpart, including economy, you will be disappointed. The game is so buggy it's barely fun at all. Also the singleplayer-szenarios get boring very quickly. After 10+ hours of play I found the following bugs: - Frequent crashes with Win10. Every 3 to 4 hours the game crashes on me. - Trains going crazy. As soon as you build a more complex network trains are going mad all over the map: - Trains are suddenly disappering and showing magically up on other parts of the map. - Trains not going on railroads, but somewhere in the open field, but this doesn't seem to happen often. - Trains not reaching their destination. Especially after buliding new tracks like doubling railsroads or buliding a new intersection trains suddenly change course and start going everywhere, but not to the scheduled destination. Of course this trains make no money. Sometimes it helps to cancel the train and set it up new. But even then the train might get "lost" after one or two deliveries. - Trains taking "new" and wired routes. All of a sudden a train on a connection that worked fine takes a new route and blocks other trains. Well with all that bugs it's not realy fun to play. This is definitely not the quality I'm expecting from a game with the name Sid Meier on it. Don't waste your money ond this game and get a classic copy of Railroad Tycoon!

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Posted on: December 4, 2016

dnovraD

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 77

Sid Meier's Railroaded

Did you notice that all of the screenshots are not actually showing the gameplay element? That's because the gameplay element is practically nonexistant. There's no advanced logistics, no carefully pouring over a map while considering the deeper economics, nor any fierce competitive aspect to worry about. It's basically a glorified tabletop railway, and while there's no issue with that, this does fly in the face of the series pedigree; this is supposed to be Railroad Tycoon IV. And it very much isn't. The freeform gameplay has been replaced by something more akin to Rails Across America, which at least had an interesting deckbuilding idea to throw at the premise in 2001. This just complicates the rail building by forcing the player to conform to the lay of the land. If you want to putter around and look at pretty train models? You can do better. And if you want something that requires you to actually balance your railway? This isn't it.

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Posted on: April 14, 2016

Haravikk

Spiele: 93 Rezensionen: 9

Pretty, but disappointing

I love Railroad Tycoon 3, in spite of a few annoyances, so I expected this to be somewhat similar, unfortunately it's unlikely to scratch the itch for fans of the Railroad Tycoon series. In terms of track management, there are tools for laying parallel track alongside existing single-tracks, and you can choose where to place points for trains to wait/pass one another. At first glance this should be fun to manage when combined with the Hard routing mode that prevents trains from passing through each other. However, in practice the system doesn't scale at all as there is no way to limit track to a particular direction, which means that trains will automatically pick any track that looks free, only to encounter another coming the other way and become grid-locked. To overcome these issues requires a lot of work and strange solutions, and doesn't result in a very realistic or efficient railway, it's also more frustrating than fun as it's easy to get stuck with leftover pieces you can't remove or replace properly, along with visual clutter like signals. In terms of the actual mechanics of the game, the industrial model is simplistic; RT3 had businesses appearing organically to meet demand, but prohibitively expensive to build yourself, with goods making their way own over land, passengers wanting to go to specific destinations etc., Railroads! has none of these things. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not just simple, it's far too easy; except at the very beginning of a game it is just too basic to be rewarding and you're soon floating in more money than you can spend. The single scenarios are likewise underwhelming; most have very difficult initial objectives, followed by a massive stretch with no challenge and nothing to do. In RT3 even a company doing well was in a constant struggle with its board and financiers, plus there were usually meaningful events to keep things interesting. While this is graphically pretty, Railroad Tycoon 3 is by far the better game.

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Posted on: April 30, 2024

mystikro

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Spiele: 57 Rezensionen: 11

Fun game

I get that it is not as complex as Railroad Tycoon. However, it is a small game with simplified mechanics and low stress. It's not the greatest economic model, but it is nicely rendered, has good sountrack, plays fast, you can pickup a level and play for an hour without the planning required by other games like RRT. Regarding the crashing, there is a patch available online which fixes this issue.

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Posted on: August 23, 2024

CharleyGranger

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Spiele: 50 Rezensionen: 1

Sid Meier's Railroads

This is truly a GOG. Like most of Sid's titles it seems almost simple and cartoony but to play it well is not as easy as it looks. Very good graphics for it's day, good sound track and replayability and priced right.

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