Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum Edition

by Poptop

Product Features

• Become a railroad mogul by working your way up the ranks of the railroad industry.
• Build the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, or the Orient Express.
• Run steam trains through African jungles.
• Includes Railroad Tycoon II, RT Second Century, RT Gold, plus 50 new scenarios.
• Over 2 hours of original blues music (3 times more than any other Railroad Tycoon 2 version). 1024x768 resolution supported.

Product Details

• ASIN: B000KPKLI6
• Item Weight: 9 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,698 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform:  WINDOWS 98/ME/XP Publisher:  POPTOP Packaging:  DVD STYLE BOX Rating:  EVERYONE Establish yourself as a mogul to be reckoned with as you work your way up the ranks of the railroad industry. Expand your domain across continents and a changing global marketplace. Build the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad or the Orient Express. Run steam trains through the jungles of Africa or electric trains through the Swiss Alps. Run your competitors out of town on a rail. Railroad Tycoon II Platinum is the definitive version of the award winning Railroad Tycoon II series. Inside you'll find the complete contents of Railroad Tycoon II Railroad Tycoon II - The Second Century and Railroad Tycoon Gold plus 50 All New scenarios and over 2 hours of original music. You'll also get the 200 page official Railroad Tycoon II Strategy Guide in electronic form on the disk. Product Features: Over 125 scenarios ranging from the building of the Transcontinental Railroad to supplying allied forces during WWII! Re-create history's greatest railroading feats with over 60 engines from around the world including the French TGV the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy the Brenner 412 and the Vulcan 2-4-0. Sophisticated stock market with margin buying short selling and hostile takeovers. Over 2 hours of original blues music - three times as much as any other previous version. Play alone or against dozens of devious computer players. Supports LAN or Internet play. System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP 133 MHz or higher processor 16 MB RAM 4x CD-ROM drive 300 MB free hard disk space 800 x 600 capable monitor and video card (1024 x 768 recommended)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun, Great Price, February 27, 2009

By 

M. Carlisle "Look & Listen" (Deep in the Heart of Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum Edition (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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Railroad Tycoon II Platinum, July 26, 2007

By 

mohave jack - See all my reviews

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If you have used the original Railroad Tycoon or Tycoon II then you will be ready for this extended version.
More scenarios, more maps, more music and new features like being able to bridge wider bodies of water.
This is Railroad Tycoon for the 21st Century, and a lot of fun too.
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Running out of steam, October 13, 2009

By 

David Peng "jedioncrk" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Railroad Tycoon II: Platinum Edition (CD-ROM)

I recall playing Railroad Tycoon 1 with much more excitement than in this version. Perhaps, I was more of kid back then, but the setup of campaigns takes some of the fun out of the game. Each campaign has a goal and depending on how well you do, you are awarded either bronze, silver, or gold. I agree that the campaigns are a good way to walk the user through the game and introduce various ways to win each campaign, but it gets old after the first scenario. Other than that, RT2 is a good follow up game to the original. It has most everything the first did and even more. I like how the stock market is in the game, even issuing bonds and shorting stocks. The track and station build is improved and the graphics were good for its time. Overall, I still recommend the game, but I would have rather have a single goal game, which is to win.