Railroad Tycoon 3

[Sir Og]

I have spent ungodly amounts of time playing RRT 1. I used to play in school in IT classes . Ahh... those were the days.
I liked RRT 2 too. I think it had great graphics and all the gameplay additions were balanced. I'm somewhat concerned with that 3D thing though RRT 2 graphics were awesome, how can they improve on that.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Ive never heard of these games before, but I checked out the screenies for RRT 2, and I gotta say, this game looks cool. Cooler then Civ3.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Sir Og
I'm somewhat concerned with that 3D thing though RRT 2 graphics were awesome, how can they improve on that.

About a year ago, some company made a game (Don't remember the name), which was like RRT, but it was 3D... and I've only got one thing to say: You're right, in being concerned... It looked worse than RRT2, and required a much faster computer... and it wasn't even fun...

[RGBVideo]

Tropico?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Ive never heard of these games before, but I checked out the screenies for RRT 2, and I gotta say, this game looks cool. Cooler then Civ3.

But the gameplay isn't...

In the late game, you have train crashes every 10 seconds, even though you just replaced ALL trains with the newest/best model...

And the fact, that you have to go through the editor, to play a game, with the enemies you'd like to play against (on the map, you'd like to play on), only makes it worse...

[RGBVideo]

It's much like SimCity. By the time you've mastered it, the 'personality' fades, and along it all the interest to play it.

This can be tried to counter with scenarios

[Adagio]

Actually it's the scenarios that kills the game...

Why don't they have "Free play" in RRT games?

[Arrian]

It's not so much the scenarios themselves, but the fact that that was the only way to play, and the rather arbitrary win conditions. The ones that depended on personal wealth irritated me. I wanted to build a railroad, damnit!

-Arrian

[Adagio]

I totally agree...

[Sava]

RRT2 was good.

[Alex]

It was ok, that's all. Nothing to write home about.

[badams52]

Did you say Roller Coaster Tycoon 3!?!?!? Oh you said Railroad Tycoon 3. Damn. That 3-d thing sounded quite interesting too.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by badams52
Did you say Roller Coaster Tycoon 3!?!?!?

I hoped so, to bad they didn't