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Railroad Tycoon II
Released On: Nov 2, 1998
89
8.4
All Platforms
PlayStation
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
89
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
89
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
89
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
One of the few instances where the sequel
outperforms the original. If you are even
remotely interested in strategy games, you
owe it to yourself to give this one a stab.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 82 User Ratings
8.4
85% Positive
70 Ratings
70 Ratings
9% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 82 User Ratings
8.4
85% Positive
70 Ratings
70 Ratings
9% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Perfect business simulation with a great campaign, where you play the history of train business. Gameplay is great and complex. I like the financial part a lot and how to manipulate the stock market and how to focus on which part of the business to get the goal.
Music is fitting very well.
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Classic game from the twilight of PC strategy gaming in the 90's. The game is only complicated if you don't select difficulty options or don't play the early scenarios first.
People comparing this game to modern games, simply don't get it and are ignoring the fun and interesting type of game that is ignored by the short attention span theater goers.
Have fun and play something that can give you something to think about.
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Playing Railroad Tycoon II is an emotional experience bringing back memories of Lionel trains and Christmas mornings long past and staring at Lionel catalogs and dreaming.
If you are looking for an RTS game with something really different, or if you have an interest in trains, you won't find a game more appealing than Railroad Tycoon II.
If you're a hard core strategy fan who's into world building, you'll have a hard time finding a game that will keep you more entertained than this remarkable product.
This game requires an extensive amount of time to understand as its realism is unsurpassed by any other strategy game in the same genre.
This game is worryingly addictive; it's not just a business simulation, nor just a power game, but an educational competition where only the forward thinker survives and thrives.
One of my most favourite strategic/economy games. For 1998 strategic game it has really good graphics. 8/10
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I spent a lot of time on RT2 and despite old graphics, it's better that RT3.
That's because RT2 is more challenging than RT3.
But still could me more demanding :D
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If you are a student of logistics you will either really love or hate this game. For me the game is addictive. I'm almost fifty and enjoy a simple game that on the outside looks simple but is complex. This is a game where no-one is shot or killed. This simple game requires one to think about what they are doing and several (several) steps ahead. I like this game.
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Well, it's not a 10 and a little better than an 8 but it's definitely NOT BETTER than the origional. The ai is paultry to the ai of the origional game in which I lost and have never lost a game of this. But, the game is colorful and I give it credit for EYE CANDY (boy am I sick of games getting good ratings because of eye candy RTW are you listening?) What makes this game too easy is that the ai just ignores the businesses and I can pick them up for a song easily and plow right ahead into the lead and never look back. It also doesn't build far and wide like the origional either. It basically is just there to "block" you if it can otherwise it has no strategy about it at all.
Nothing to me will ever match the origional Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon game. I still play it to this day more than these other eye candy games. I love the "cutthroat" competition and the fluxuating unpredictable economy and the music. ;)
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This isn't the worst game I have ever played but it's on that it's on that list. I mean, i see why people gave this a high score and i get it, nostalgia. That's what it is, nostalgia. I for one am rating this based on the game itself. It's not what i'd consider a "good" game. It has pretty good graphics (for it's time) but that's about it.
First of all, the controls, interface, and graphics style is extremely confusing. I can't even get through an entire game without getting a headache.
Second, the narrator.
This guy is so annoying that he will make you want to tear your ears off of your head,
no kidding.
Third, HORRIBLE menu screen
The menu screen is absolutely horrible. It makes you want to throw up on your PC monitor. Everything is disorganized and will make you scratch your head thinking, "Why Did I Buy This Game?".
This game is not horrible (for graphics and nostalgia reasons) but it is pretty bad. It's not one of those games you just go and pick up on steam, it's one of those games you should have bought in 1998 when it first came out.
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Summary Ride the Iron Horse. It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire. It can take you from a normal, well-adjusted, well-rounded person to an obsessed, singled-minded, one-tracked trainhead. This is a real railr...
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- PlayStation
- PC
Initial Release Date: Nov 2, 1998
Developer:
- PopTop Software
Publisher: Gathering
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