Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

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This is by no contest, the best PC game I've ever played. People just don't rate it well because they don't know how to play it, and its a bit of a challenge. Once you get the basics down, like how to build track, and trains and plan routes, it's easy, and very fun!

The game is set up on 5 different file like set ups. they vary on difficulty and they allow you to go from place to place and work on scenarios that are right for you. They range from beginner to expert. Each scenario varies on time to complete. But many have a time limit in which you have to complete goals. The scenarios are endless. And, if you ever get bored, you can make your own custom scenario up! You can basically build your own world, cities and towns with the name you want, and the buildings you want as well. I think this is great for whenever you need an easy scenario to beat and expand as much as you want. You can make it as easy or has hard as you want. This is a great idea in my eyes.

I love the variety too. Not only can you build trains, but you can build trucks, buses,trans, airplanes, and ships well. They allow you to build a transportation system that best suits the town you're working on.

This is the best game I've ever played. People just don't like the challenge and the fact that you actually have to think. Although not nearly like running a real business, this game will allow you to start from scratch, and build on it however you want to complete a goal. 5 stars in my opinion.

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Locomotion is a game that is designed to accomadate the rare patient people who enjoy to watch and imagine train glory. I played the demo, and from that it seemed to be a jungled mess of trains and other stuff go this and that way, too advanced controls, and he seemed money hungry for this one,(his insanely short demo...). I had little hope for this game, and I was right, now no longer available in stores across the US,(not even in thriftstores). His game is on atari, there will probably not even be another rct. He got rich, and that's it, after the failure of this game he got discouraged and quit, not a good game.

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Please don't let the title of my review fool you. It's just my opinion.
Although I like strategy/tycoon simulators overall, this one has it's flaws, including tech support from Atari.
The main flaws I found annoying are the terrain management - it's a bit limited, though playable.
Or, when connecting 2 town(or whatever else), it's impossible to start a rail connection(or whatever connection you want) ABOVE the ground/town. It's ok to end the station above the town(you have the possibility to raise/lower a track, but not start). The Atari/Locomotion support team were kinda sucky about this and replied in an completly unprofessional manner.
Works on Vista Ultimate & XP, kind of processor consuming(like 50%; I have a P4HT) but that's ok, maybe it's Vista's fault.

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I bought this game as I was looking for a fun railroad game and, after trying out demos of Rail Tycoon, etc, I purchased Locomotion. If you've played any of the RCT games then you'll feel instantly at home, but whereas RCT was pretty simple right out of the box, Locomotion takes much more trial and error to get the basics down.

That being said a couple of hours of fiddling around will bring you up to speed quickly and that's when the fun begins. This is a game that will suck you in and keep you on the computer for 3 hours when your intention was to play for a half hour or so.

When you factor in the dirt cheap price it's a slam dunk as this game will pay you back many times over!

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This game is fun and good,but i hate it that you have to fix the trains,buses,truck,and others.when the years go by all the working vehicles get old and break down then you have to put new vehicles,it is very disapointing while playing the game.