#Biggest maps sid meiers railroads manual#
#Biggest maps sid meiers railroads full#

All in all the game makes the laying of the track really simple but thought is needed to make sure everything goes to plan.

#Biggest maps sid meiers railroads full#

You can also purchase processing facilities via the cool addition of a bidding war to take full advantage of all of your resources. Once each track is laid it lets you move either passengers and freight which begins to let you earn you money – quick delivery means more money and one type moves quicker than the other but you need to keep both types moving between town for your company to start to grow. You just click where you want the track to begin then click where you want it to end and the game moves anything in the way and adds tunnels and other items when needed… I personally like this option as it adds to the relaxing feel of the game.

#Biggest maps sid meiers railroads manual#

One point which may annoy some is that the game offers little to no manual adjustments when laying tracks. Playing the game is really easy and more of a relaxing than challenging experience. Once complete the game then gives you a ranking but rather interestingly the ranking comes from a collection of different people depending on which location your scenario is in. Of course to keep things interesting all the scenarios have a set goal to achieve… one may set you the simple objective of connecting two cities together while others ask you to earn a set amount of money. Each of the scenarios also take place at different times through history starting in the mid 19th century and working its way through to the middle of the 20th. The scenarios, although fictional all have some historical references in them and take place in many real world locations with Great Britain, France, Germany and many others on show. Instead of offering a fully fledged single player campaign mode Railroads offers a collection of fifteen different scenarios to play through. Many strategy games have been let down by a poorly laid user interface that need click after click after click to get where you want to go, but thankfully in Railroads everything seems to be within easy reach right from the get go. What stands out when first starting to play Railroads is the how well everything is laid out. For once I like something about trains – I am cured – no psychiatrist is going to get my money now! I may have a problem and I am sure that if I ever went to a psychiatrist I think he would trace the problem back to when I was five years old and people thought it would be a great idea to use my first name to come up with the great nickname “Thomas The Tank Engine.” Now after all these years a game about trains is sitting in my disc-drive and for some reason I feel no anger. I also never owned a train set as a kid and I did not want one – Scalextric was always the way to go for me. I don’t like trains – they don’t amuse me and I view them as extremely loud vehicles intent on making as much noise as possible hissing and clunking as much as they can.