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Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed games. |
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 railroad game, not just a strategy game that happens to involve railroads. If you want to hop on a plane, car or ship, hop on another game. This game is about trains for people who love trains. Everything about the game is centered around an authentic look and feeling of the railways. Period video and pictures are interlaced with the game. The design and interface are true to the character of the fabled late 1800's railroads. A.I. opponents are based on real people. And all maps are real (based on satellite photography from US Geological Service and other sources). [Gathering of Developers]
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more... 97
PC Gameworld
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.
 92
PC Gamer
Strategy gaming at its finest - minus all the senseless violence. [Feb 1999, p.172]
92
TotalGames.net
Fans of the original will love RT2 and anyone with even the slightest strategical bent will love the challenge it poses.
91
GameSpot
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.
90
Yahoo! Games
An engrossing game. It's strength lies in its portrayal of a cut-throat business environment, with the "train set" element of the game playing second fiddle, albeit a gloriously rendered second fiddle.
90
Adrenaline Vault
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.
90
Computer Games Magazine
Players who are wary of all things pecuniary can elect to leave the stock market alone, and those that are truly phobic can opt to play in "sandbox mode" without any competition or monetary concerns at all-kind of a fancy virtual train set. Those that do will be missing out on one of the best features of the game, however.
89
IGN
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.
85
Game Over Online
This game requires an extensive amount of time to understand as its realism is unsurpassed by any other strategy game in the same genre.
84
Gamezilla!
A must-play for any simulation fans. I enjoyed the campaign levels and spent many a late night striving to get that last load in for the gold star achievement.
50
All Game Guide
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.
Sebastien L. gave it a10: Daniel S. gave it a9: Tom V. gave it an8: John S. gave it a0: Andrew E. gave it a10: |
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