Well, I didn't look at signalling too closely, I didn't need to really with only a couple of trains!īut another thing with this release is there's no manual included with the software, I had to go hunting around on the Internet to locate one, which was apparently written after the game was released - after the developers realised people were having problems with the interface.īut the manual's not much use anyway, you really have to play in Sandbox mode and try things out, then write your own documentation based on trial and error!īut to be fair, the game may be quite good once you've figured out how to do things, but it's a very steep learning curve, and you need to be willing to invest a lot of time just getting the hang of things. Oh well, looks like it's back to good ol' Transport Tycoon for me!Īnd Railroad Tycoon III of course, for those incredible graphics - and a decent user-interface! As a result, trains come into view on one side of the screen, and the engine has already disappeared off the other side of the screen before the rest of the train has come into view! It's like having your nose pressed up close to the monitor all the time - it makes it impossible to step back and get a sense of what's going on in any wider context, something I consider essential in a sim. The other thing that I find very disappointing is the zoom function - you can zoom in real close, but you can't pull back very far to get a birds-eye view of the action. I find it a pity that a game with such excellent graphics can be rendered pretty much unplayable because no thought has been put into making the interface intuitive / user-friendly. I figured the only way I would have any chance of getting to grips with the game is by creating detailed step-by-step instructions for myself, that I could refer to during gameplay - because there seems little chance I'd ever remember how to do anything in the game otherwise! Accomplishing simple tasks is not intuitive at all, and involves navigating a labyrinth of buttons. So bear in mind if you want to play TG:Downunder, don't install the patches!Īpart from that, I have mixed feelings about Transport Giant. Everything was fine until I applied the two patches 1.2 and 1.3, whereupon the TG:Downunder expansion pack completely vanished from the TG menus! I just purchased Transport Giant Gold, the release that includes the expansion pack TG:Downunder.
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