Posted on: September 6, 2018
Akalabeth
Verified ownerGames: 649 Reviews: 92
No nostalgia glasses here
I remember playing this as a kid and being very into it. When the game disappeared, I lamented for years afterwards that we didn't have the game or another one like it. Fast forward and here I have it from GOG, playing it again in all of its early-3D glory. Unfortunately, this game is a real slog. When things get going it can be fine, you can constantly be doing stuff, but early on you'll just be waiting for a train to get from one city to another. And if you happen to connect the wrong two cities or points of interest, might as well re-start. In theory that's all fine- but the problem I have is the resources- Resources are generated randomly each time and appear all over the map, though certain types are in certain areas. And the idea of hauling one thing to another place and then a manufactured good from there to yet another place sounds fun but in practice it really isn't. Map I'm playing right now has some cities like L.A. featuring Steel Mills, well- for steel you need Iron and Coal. Sometimes these are nearby, sometimes they're halfway across the country and even when you do haul these components to the factory it creates Steel and then guess who is demanding Steel? No one. Most of the time I found it most beneficial to simply take people between two more populace cities, or sometimes if resources were clustered together to take a big trainload to a manufacturing centre and back again. But sometimes taking a train from a resource to a factory literally takes YEARS. Some games have you move a trainload across the country, this can take 4-5 years when the train hits the mountains. Ultimately, can't recommend it. People need to PLEASE re-play these old games before you throw five stars on it. Don't review a game based on 20-year old impressions, replay it- see if it's still a "good old game". A lot of times it won't be.
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