 Railroad Tycoon 3 Deluxe
Author Company: Jack of All Games
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Railroad Tycoon 3 Deluxe 2 stars (The developers confused "family friendly" with "childlike") - I was ...
File Size: 7.98 kB
OS: Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / ME / XP / VISTA
License: CD-ROM - Time Limit, free to try, 19.99 to buy.
Software Developed by Jack of All Games
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Railroad Tycoon 3 - 2 stars (The developers confused "family fri
Railroad Tycoon 3 review:2 stars (The developers confused "family friendly" with "childlike") - I was addicted to Railroad Tycoon 2, but unfortunately it wouldn't play under my new operating system. I was thrilled to find RT3 and eagerly awaited its delivery.
Unfortunately, RT3 has lost much of the complexity and the underhandedness that made RT2 so much fun. For example:
- in RT2, only industries or resources inside your station's field of influence would be serviced by your trains. In RT3, each station has a vague, undefined "area of influence" that goes beyond the size of your station's shown field. Is that feedlot, grain farm, or mine close enough to your station so you don't have to build another closer station? Good luck figuring it out.
- in RT2, one could designate different loads for cars in the same manifest. This can't be done now. This makes it very difficult to produce goods manufactured from more than one type of raw material.
- the graphics are very comic-book like, and would more appeal to children around the age of three than they would adults. Very unattractive and simplistic. I would have even preferred a 2-D model with more sophistication.
- the business models have been vastly oversimplified, and the AI companies are not one thousandth as cutthroat as in RT2. This is a bad thing. Historically, rail companies were not paragons of industry; for a historical sim to be realistic, it has to reflect the true conditions of the industry. The rail business in RT3 appears to have been emasculated, perhaps to appeal to young naive children, but it's lost much of its interest for adults.
- creating new maps and new scenarios is much more complicated in RT3 than it was in RT2.
- the weather is a useless, worthless feature that eats memory. Yes, you can turn it off, but it still takes up a lot of space in storage memory.
I did not much enjoy RT3. It appears to have lost much of the detail that made RT2 so enjoyable (wasn't it great to finally get iron *and* coal, send one train of each to the place with the steel plant, get back two trains of steel, send them to some place with a manufacturing plant, and then send the goods to your largest city? You could do similar feats with produce and steel, with rubber, steel, and oil, etc. hoping all the time that your competitor didn't build a station in the same city and scoop your goods. Great fun. With RT3, you don't get that ability to follow your cargo from raw material to finished goods.5 stars (Amazing Game) - This is an amazing game. It one of the best tycoon games ever made. There is an accurate and easy-to-read budget with all factors taken into consideration. I like how you can put trains on auto-consist, so they pick up whatever will make money. However, if you have too many trains, it slows down your computer gameplay, like it does on my 128 Ram comp. There are many fun maps and scenarios to play. Supply, demand, price, competition, and other things are fun to manage. There are informative maps that show the supply and demand of certain products and the prices, so you can decide where to run trains to make a lot of money. However, you don't have to only run trains, you can buy industries, farms, and ranches, making them even more profitable by running products to and from them with trains. Stocks, bonds, profitability, controlling expenses versus income and other things make this game amazingly realistic and makes a unique challenge at any hardness level to be the ultimate tycoon. Also, there are no rules to regulate you from using underhanded maneuvers to stab your opponents and fellow tycoons in the back, or take over, or become chairman of their company. The graphics aren't great, but this is an amazing game and I would strongly recommend it for anyone who likes tycoon games. 5 stars (gooses review) - This game does the railroad industry great justice. The original railroad tycoon was made sometime in the mid 1980s which shows that this series actually made a name for itself being older than any tycoon game I know of. People who like to look at trains or moddel train sets will probably like this game a lot. Also those people who like railroad museums will like this game as long as they know how to use a computer even if they don't like playing games on it. After playing railroad tycoon 2 this game was hard to get used to. The 3d look made it hard for me to get a grasp on the playing field and some things dissapear when you zoom out on the map. If you never played the first or second railroad tycoon game and you have good vision theres no problem with that. Probably the most important thing about this game is that its the only one you can find exciting that also has trains in it. Another important thing to note is the nastalgic single player campaigne. People who study American history knows that this nation was built on the back of the "iron horse" and this game gives you a unique insight into this pivatol factor in the progression of the world in the 1800s to about 1950.
This is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "Buy Now" button below for around $19.99 USD.
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