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Sid Meier's Railroads!
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: 2K Games
EAN: 0710425219672
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Item Dimensions: 1.257.53005.25
Label: 2K Games
Manufacturer: 2K Games
MPN: 710425219672
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: 2K Games
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Studio: 2K Games
Features:- Sid Meier-designed railroad tycoon game
- You're in charge of building your own railroad empire
- A variety of play modes including the "sand-box" modeling mode, real-time LAN and Internet play
- Railroads! delivers a strategy experience that will cater to both RTS gamers and locomotive fans alike
- Engage in corporate warfare against rival tycoons, slick entrepreneurs and robber barons
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Editorial Review:
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!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - 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.
Rating:  - Didn't live up to its hype
There was so much hype for this game when it was first announced. With Sid Meier at the helm, it seemed like it was destined to be a hit.
Sadly, it is so buggy and is a severe disappointment. The game crashes tot he desktop every now and then. The gameplay gets choppy as more cities/trains are included within a scenario. This choppiness and crashing happens even on an Intel Core2Duo/Saphire x1900xtx machine (built it myself) and yes all my drivers were up to date. Laying out track, while ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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. ... Read More
Rating:  - The first Sid Meier game I didn't like
I thought this was supposed to be Railroad Tycoon 4. It's more Railroad Tycoon 0.5. Even with the latest patch, this game crashes too much and is too slow and too buggy to be playable. Once my railroad empire gets more than a dozen connections, the game slows to a crawl, even on my relatively fast system. Literally after I place a section of track, there is a 10-second delay until the interface becomes responsive again, and this is with the game paused. Train routing is seriously flawed. Even with "easy" ... Read More
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