Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years
Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months
Type of bind: CD-ROM
Brand: Microsoft
EAN num: 0659556583934
ESRB Age Rated by buyers Everyone
Feature: WINDOWS 98/ME/2000/XP
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Model: B87-00002
Publishing house: Microsoft
Release Date: June 07, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 3607
Studio: Microsoft
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Take the controls from the engineer's cab with thousands of tons of freight behind you and exciting challenges ahead. From steam engines to diesel to electric, immerse yourself in the sights, sounds and adventures of trains.
Amazon.com Review:
Train Simulator takes the obsessive realism of Microsoft's best-of-breed Flight Simulator games down to earth. Six real-world rail lines are included from throughout history, including the Flying Scotsman line of 1920s England and the modern Odakyu Electric Rail commuter line in Tokyo. Attendees at the National Model Railroad Association's August 2000 convention marveled at the game's painstaking attention to detail. But this game is not a model railroad game; it simulates the real thing. The game's developers traveled across the world with cameras and microphones in order to authentically capture the trains in their natural habitats. Train Simulator lets you experience the world's greatest trains in all their glory.
Train aficionados can drive the train, run the rail yard, or dive in with the terrain editor and create the rail lines of their dreams. Or you can just sit back, relax, and admire the beautiful scenery and dreamy click-clack of the tracks. --Andrew S. Bub
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It's a great program, the graphics and simulation are great! It's a job well done, no question about that. The views from inside (forward, or to either side) or form outside, birds eye view are great and all the gauges and control gear inside the cab of each train is designed realistically after real trains. My son loves it and I find it very interesting as well.
It's a good tool to give us a flavor of what it's like to ride a train and what all the engineer has to be aware of and pay attention to. It's great that it gives you a number of options on what engines to ride, which routes to take and what to do on those routes. You can just check out the route with an engine or do real jobs of pulling freight, for example, with tasks along the route like picking up and dropping off cars or switching cars at a particular place. It includes the manual for engineers to teach you how to run each of the engines in the game and do all the jobs that are there. I suppose there may come a time when one masters all the routes and all the jobs and there is nothing new to learn after that, but we're not to that point so for us it's still learning something new.
We run it on W2000, but have plenty of processing power an memory, but it still crashes once in a while. It's a bother, but given that it's Microsoft it's no surprise. I do recommend this game for anyone interested in trains and wanting to get the experience of being the engineer.
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My son loves trains and is an expert at them now because of this product while only being in kindergarden. But the program is so large it sometimes causes my system to crash while trying to load up.
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My mom purchased this game for me. We got online and checked out other train simulator games. When we read the reviews for the games we looked at, they refered this game as the best. I really, really love it. You can pick the train, the track, the season, the weather conditions and the cars. The game is very good because you drive the train, control the speed and the brakes. It also simulates the scenes in the engine and out of the engine, all the way to the caboose. I also like it when it simulates a crash when you make an error. You can observe it in the cab and out of the cab. Very great game worth buying.
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I bought the train simulator for my Dad for Christmas and he LOVES it!!! I would recommend this product for anybody who likes and enjoys trains!!!
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No one else has mentioned the enormous amount of fun one can have with this (or any other rail simulation for that matter)by simply exploring at your own pace all the little highways and byways of this new and fascinating track world.
Select an engine with which you feel the most comfortable and then get off the main track and enjoy a gentle run along the back "lanes" of the different countryside areas. In some cases you may only go a few hundred yards while in others you can travel for miles just idling away as you see fit.
For long journeys I use a "Class 50" on its own while for the really little known places something like the "Nene Valley NV8" really fits the bill.
Have fun - that's what these games are for!!
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