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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A timeless classic,
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (CD-ROM)
Transport Tycoon is a fairly old game, but it has held up pretty well. The premise is that you're managing a transportation company (bus, truck, train, airplane, ship, monorail), and the cities and industries you serve end up growing. In a sense this is the inverse of SimCity, where you manage the cities and industries, but not the transportation.
The original game is designed for DOS; I recommend OpenTTD, an open source enhancement that fixes bugs, improves the UI, works on Windows/Mac/Linux, adds lots of features, supports larger maps, and has extensions (new graphics, buildings, vehicles, and industries). OpenTTD reuses components of the original game, so buy and install Transport Tycoon Deluxe, then run OpenTTD instead of the original executable. Another alternative is TTDPatch, which also builds on the original. I gave this 4 stars instead of 5 because the AI players aren't very good. You can also play multiplayer, either cooperatively or competitively, but I play single player, with no AIs, essentially in a "sandbox" game (once you get past the first decade, money isn't a problem). The most recent OpenTTD has some player-contributed AI players, so we might see better AIs soon. The challenges in sandbox mode are of your own making. You might decide to work on a "realistic" track layout, or high capacity, or passenger-only, or high profit, or any number of other goals. In some ways it's like gardening, where you plant things, watch them grow, and watch for and remove pests and weeds, but it's for a giant virtual train set. I'm always looking for inefficiencies, track problems, congestion, broken trains, etc., and making improvements everywhere. Also see the advanced layouts page on [...] to get a sense of some of the kinds of things you can build.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless fun -- like "SimCity" for buses, trains, ships and planes!,
By DOSbox gamer (Midwest US) - See all my reviews
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (CD-ROM)
Yes, an oldie but definitely a goodie! From the same genius behind RollerCoaster Tycoon comes Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a much-expanded and improved version of the original Transport Tycoon. Build, micro-manage, and compete against the computer (or solo play) to establish your own transportation empire! Lay down roads and rails, then add buses & trucks, trains and planes, all to get passengers and cargo where it needs to go! Special emphasis on trains, with steam, electric & diesel engines, plus passenger, mail, wood, goods, coal, oil and many more freight cars. Maglev trains, Concorde planes, ferries, helicopters, too. Exhaustive details (with screenshots!) available at Wikipedia, but simply, an excellent involving game.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
openTTD,
A Kid's Review
= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Transport Tycoon Deluxe (CD-ROM)
Like another reviewer wrote, this only works in DOS (If you really want to you can use freedos: [...]). Also the original game is very, very expensive. There is a project called
openTTD that is an open source version. It works on mac, windows, and any free operating system (eg Linux, BSD, Solaris). The actual game is very fun. openTTD: [...].
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