Sid Meier's Railroads! | Easy and fun.

Sid Meier's Railroads! | Fun for Old Railroaders and for Soon to be Railroaders

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	Sid Meier's Railroads! Windows \| 2K Games, 2006 average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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Sid Meier's Railroads brings back the Golden Age of railroading! Combining the best of real-world and model railroads, you'll be in charge of building your own railroad empire, running everything from steam-powered locomotives to more modern diesel and electric trains. Manage your cargo and your bottom line, all while engaging in corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs and robber barons. Cities and industries will grow up around you, while you lay track and route trains, haul raw materials to market and carry manufactured goods throughout the land. Challenge historical giants like Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, and others in single-player scenarios Ruthless real-time multiplayer LAN and Internet play -- buy out your rivals or cash in favors to sabotage their shipments!

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Easy and fun.

This is one of those games that is just plain fun. Not much to think about... a lot of people have been complaining that it's WAY too easy, which is probably true. I still enjoy it though. If you feel like passing the time and not thinking too much, you'll like it. They could have done a lot more with it to make it more elaborate and challenging. *shrug* I like it! For under $20 bucks, it's not like you're dumping a whole lot of cash into it... if I paid $50 for it, I would have said it was a waste of money.

Try it. It's a fun little game.

Warning: it is not compatible with Windows Vista. It may crash every 10-15 minutes. If you run it in windowed mode and with the anti aliasing off, it seems to last longer. In fact, when I run it like that and play the European maps and the west coast, it doesn't seem to crash. Once I play in the midwest and the northeast, it crashes after a few minutes. Their response to this problem is to wait for Service Pack 1 from Microsoft...

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Fun for Old Railroaders and for Soon to be Railroaders

I bought this for my 12 year old son. Both him, and myself have become proficient on the older Railroad Tycoon II and when we saw that a new "Railroads" came out, I bought it for the both of us.

"Railroads" graphics are the big standout in the Railroads game. I have a 2003ish clean running Pentium 4 @ 2.66GHz with NVidia graphics card and 1GB of RAM and I had to turn the graphics on this game to minimum in order to get keep the picture from being herky - jerky. It asks a lot out of the graphics card.

The older Railroads II game can go deeper into "complexity" or "Realism" than the Railroads game does, but that is ok because the graphics are like eating desert to the eye and there is plenty of strategy in the newer "Railroads" version.

Having read some of the reviews listed here, I am reminded of the commonly made comments heard when a really popular book is made into a movie. Railroad Tycoon II and III set a high standard for a deep simulation strategy game that takes tens and hundreds of hours to master. Most of the "grand masters" of RRIII most likely started with the original Railroad Tycoon and progressed through the different versions on their path to proficiency in RRT3. With the newer Railroads game, I can see a new generation of younger gamers getting hooked on Railroads simplier game play and graphics. Then when Railroads II comes out, I suspect it will attempt to bring this newest series of Railroad simulation to the level where Railroad Tycoon III left off.

For the time being, I can see a Sid Meier Railroad simulation fan playing both versions depending upon how much time they had for a game and how deep they wanted to get. So far we have not played RR II since getting the newer Railroads. ;)

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Sid Meier's Railroads

Everything as advertised. It is a fun and addictive game. Not an easy sim, but not too hard that it isn't enjoyable.

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