Ride The Rails In The Most Realistic Train Simulation Ever!The most realistic train ... more
simulation ever brings all new content in addition to over 50 new activities, enhanced physics, online chat and driver interaction. Multiple styles of play cater to new and experienced players alike - take control of a single locomotive or allocate orders to the drivers of each locomotive.Comprehensive content management and editing utilities provide access to tens of thousands of downloadable items that you can use to create your very own railroad experience. Join the world's fastest growing train simulation community with over 150,000 members registered online and share your creations.Features:10 brand new fully realised routes - including Hawes Junction, a branch line off the Settle-Carlisle route that runs through some picturesque Yorkshire landscape.480 locomotives/rolling stock including diesel locomotive classes 37, 50 and 55, the Flying Scotsman and Mallard steam locomotives.Realistic physics - accurately models wheelslip and coupler breakage for a more challenging driving experience.Easy to use map editing tools - create your own routes and scenery with over 7.500 scenery items.In-depth driving tutorials - learn to drive diesel and steam trains, assign commodities to wagons, issue orders to drivers, couple and decouple wagons and much more.Passenger schedules - build up your own fully timetabled service.Track IR support - move your head and your view responds independently of the mouse.Cab Control HUD - an on-screen interface that allows you to control a train via the use of levers rather than the keyboard.
Advantages: Very pretty Disadvantages: Doesn't do what it says on the box
the ?real? feel of the controls of a Deltic diesel-electric locomotive (or whatever) but I somehow feel that they have failed in this object. Better use of user definable keys would have been a useful place to start.
But controls? Oh, dear! The controls for actually designing one?s own layout are absolutely appalling! They are difficult, unresponsive, lack any intuitive feel and are, in my opinion, very, very hard to use.
What should be an excellent combination of a train driving simulation and virtual model railway layout design and implementation tool is something of a failure.
It seems to owe more to games offered on line at a fraction of the cost or even free. Each kludgy error is addressed with update Alpha 52/b, on these amateur or open source games. But Trainz should be much better than that.
It might also have been useful to ...
Martinscholes 02.09.2004
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Advantages: Absorbing simulation not just for trainspotters! Disadvantages: None
Firstly I am not a trainspotter wearing a dirty anorak ;)
Secondly I am not a spotty kid going through a funny spell (I'm 39)
Thirdly I am not mad.
I point this out as Trainz (or Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 as it is called in it's current version) is the only "game" that has remained on my PC year after year without file with me getting every version upon launch.
This review and the features below are based on this latest version.
Before using this program I was not even particularly interested in trains.
But Trainz, developed by Australian company Auran, is more than a Train Simulation.
Much more.
To appreciate it you have to spend more than a few days playing around with the different features of the program.
How about these for some choices?
1. Build a train layout as large as you wish for any region ...
moaning1 08.01.2005
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Advantages: Massive, Endless, Can go forever really. Disadvantages: Needs a Powerful PC to run it at full pelt.
So you have never heard of this game before then. Well let me tell you all about it.
This game is about Model Railroading on your PC. No need to get out all your model trains, model hills, model buildings, nothing. All you do is install, load up and play. This is an amazing game, well simulation really.
The game itself has been released here in England for around 6 months, i got myn about 4 months ago, and i have to say its awesome. The thing about this game is, you do not just lay down tracks and drive around them. You have to add the scenerary, extra paste boards, like in real life, so you can extend the size of it, and there is really no end to the extending, you can extend it to as long as you want.
Also you have to place roads, people, bridges, stations, basically anything you want that is available for you to place ...
mentalmickey100 30.05.2003
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