Railroad Tycoon II Platinum

by Global Star Software

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• ASIN: B0001GJBTE
• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 30, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,509 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

The Complete Railroad II Collection plus newscenarios and more!Product InformationEstablish yourself as a mogul to be reckoned with as you work your way up theranks of the railroad industry. Expand your domain across continents and a changing global marketplace Build theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad or the Orient Express. Run steam trains throughthe jungles of Africa or electric trains through the Swiss Alps. Run your competitors out of town on a rail. IncludesRailroad Tycoon II Platinum is the definitive version of the award-winningRailroad Tycoon II series.Inside you'll find the complete contents of : Railroad Tycoon II Railroad Tycoon II – The Second Century Railroad Tycoon II Gold Plus 50 ALL-NEW scenarios Over 2 hours of original music You'll also get the 200-page official Railroad Tycoon II Strategy Guide in electronic format on the disk!Product Features Fulfill your childhood dreams in OVER 125 SCENERIOS ranging from the building of the Transcontinental Railroad to supplying allied forces during WWII! Re-create histories greatest railroading feats with over 60 engines from around the world including the French TGV the Ice Bullet the Brenner 412 the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy and the Vulcan 240.Product OverviewRailroad Tycoon 2 - OriginalRide the Iron HorseIt can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerfulmulti-millionaire. It can take you from a normal well-adjusted well-roundedperson to an obsessed singled-minded one-tracked trainhead.This is a real railroad game not just a strategy game that happens toinvolve railroads. If you want to hop on a plane car or ship hop on anothergame. This game is about trains for people who love trains. Everything about thegame is centered around an authentic look and feeling of the railways. Periodvideo and pictures are interlaced with the game. The design and interface aretrue to the char

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ChooChoo U, November 15, 2009

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Michael T. Dowling (Riverside, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Railroad Tycoon II Platinum (CD-ROM)

Excellent scenarios. Much better than first edition. The variety of places, real & imaginary, is enough to keep anyone amused for years. The addition of the ability to "set out" part of your train at one location & keep the rest, and/or pick up additional cars for a new destination is a tremendous enhancement & creates new options for shipping freight. I wish this was available for MAC. It was advertised that way, but only available for PC (IBM compatible).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Time Strategy, March 19, 2010

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C. Alles "Allesky" (Orlando, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Railroad Tycoon II Platinum (CD-ROM)

I am not a train buff by any means. However, I have found this game to be addicting. It allows a great amount of control over what you are doing and is involved on a level on par with that amount of control. Its an older game, but I wish people would take this model and apply it to something newer.

Best "blast from the past" I've had in a while.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun. Well worth it., February 27, 2009

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M. Carlisle "Look & Listen" (Deep in the Heart of Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Railroad Tycoon II Platinum (CD-ROM)

The Platinum Edition lumps the original game with several add-on packages.

Let's start off with a few things:

Yes, this is an old game. And, yes, you can probably pick it up for $20 (or less). And, yes, there is a newer version of RailRoad Tycoon out.

But I personally don't find the newer version to be as much fun as this one.

The graphics aren't striking. There's no whiz-bang 3-D animation. There's only strategy.

The scenarios seem easy enough:

"Create a railroad company, and lay track from Baltimore to Washington DC. Make 10 journeys with a train full of people in 10 years and win this scenario."

Or

"Connect New York to Chicago, carry 10 trainloads of passengers between these cities and have a company book value of $10 million. You have 20 years."

Okay, these may not be the exact scenarios, but they're close.

This game isn't just laying track and putting trains on them. You've got to create trains to do specific tasks. Start at a Iron mine with 2 cars full or iron, run to a Coal mine and pick up 2 additional cars, run to a steel mill and wait for the steel to be made, then off to a Tool and Die company for goods, now deliver those goods to a city and start it over again.

The scenarios are challenging, and fun. Sometimes it's not about running trains, but how well you run a company--or how well you play the stock market.

In RRT2 you get:

===North America===
The Iron Seed: Mid-Atlantic states
Handle on The Breadbasket: Eastern USA
Bridging a Nation: Western USA
Silver Booms and the Market Busts: Southwestern USA
Whistle Stop and Promises: Northwestern USA
Crossing the Great Divide: Canada

===Europe===
Birth of the Iron Horse: Britain
Excess on the Orient Express: Europe
Knitting with Iron: Germany
Next Stop the 20th Century: France
Through The Brenner Pass: Alps
When Walls Come Down: Eastern Europe

===World===
Croissants vs Crumpets: India
Which Way to the Coast?: Australia
The Samurai Rides an Iron Horse: Japan
The People's Train: China
Dilemma Down Under: Australia
Cape to Cairo: Africa

as well as the Second Century Expansion pack which takes you into the 20th century with new challenges and newer trains.
Including getting supplies to ports in America to be delivered to Europe for World War 2, running trains in the Eastern Block and Moscow during the Cold War, running commuter trains in the Northwest and a few science-fiction 'future' scenarios centering around a geo-thermal plant in Spain.


I found this game very addictive, fun and still enjoyable years after my initial purchase.

Well worth the money. And you can find online guides to help you if you get stuck.