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	Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 Windows | Oteeva, 2003 average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What I will say is that I have stopped playing all other games and even railroad tycoon 3 is collecting dust since TRS2004 Arrived. I would also like to add that I have a 5 year old son who loves driving/watching the trains go round. I've really enjoyed playing with TRS2004!

It's hard to explain, but playing with TRS2004 is exciting and fun and there's so much to look forward to (I download new things for it all the time)

So Let's review:
MS TRAINSIM = BORING = You'll want to go to bed early.
TRAINZ RAILROAD SIMULATOR = EXCITING & FUN = You'll want to stay up all night and you just might call in "sick" the next day ;-)

Hope this review helps you in your purchase decision.

For me, fun is what it's all about.

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Brilliant. The Best Game I've Ever Bought

I've been buying computer games for 20 years and some are more interesting than others, of course. But I've never bought a game before this one that I played over and over...for hours at a time, and never got tired of it! This is a world. For those of us who look for excellent graphics, you'll find them here--highly detailed, carefully constructed, and greatly varied visuals. And, like the best software (of any kind) you can go as deep or as shallow as you want; and there are tons of options, variations, and features. It's just a great, great game and so much more fun to use than other games. You choose whether to build a world, play a scenario, learn from a tutorial, drive a train, control several trains, tell AI drivers what you want to do, create your own scenery/scenarios/maps, or just sit around and watch this great simulation play itself out. You must buy this. It's extraordinary and compelling.

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An extremely flexible simulator

A very brief review of a very interesting product. This review was written a few days after the simulator was published. This product has evolved from earlier versions of a railroad simulator such as UTC by Auran. There should be reviews of UTC on amazon. What you purchase is a basic framework of a model railroad in a computer. Although the basic CD comes with some 400 Mbs of trains, buildings, layouts, rolling stock from around the world. Besides that there is an associated web site that currently contains some 15,000+ downloadable items. Various individuals and groups produce everything from steam engines to carved wooden model toys. The web site has a forum where you can see how groups work together to create new content. Some are payware but most are free. John Banks is of interest since he has written his PhD on the way people have created the third party content and it's this third party content that has extended the simulator in ways that the creators of the software hadn't even thought about. It is sold as a railway simulator but is considered by some to be the best English canal and canal barge simulator available.

Target market is very broad, the sort of people who are interested in model railways certainly have taken it up. But there are many youngsters 3+ who enjoy watching the game or simulator. The jet engine in this version is new, it takes advantage of the new graphics cards to allow more interesting water effects. It also is more efficient than the old version but that is balanced by the some highly detailed models that need faster computers to run. It also seems to run smoothly on a wider range of video cards than the old version. Auran has upped the minimum suggested requirements but since this version is more efficient some quite positive comments have come from users with less than the recommended systems. The software can be tuned to take best advantage of the hardware and quite detailed instructions are available in the forums on how to do this.

In a word enjoy.

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