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- Platform: Windows 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
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- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Create a booming railroad industry, exploit the stock market
- 25 challenging scenarios with improved, streamlined user interface
- 3D graphics
- Modify landscapes with World Editor
- For 1 player
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Players of Railroad Tycoon 3 begin the game with a modest sum of capital at the beginning of the Golden Era of Railroading and expand their empire into major cities, while purchasing the latest locomotives, forcing competitors into bankruptcy, and exploiting the stock market to become the ultimate Railroad Tycoon.
As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world, players can also lay down track, complete with tunnels, bridges, and overpasses, then pick from more than 40 locomotives - from the original Planet and Norris 4-2-0 to monstrous late steam engines like the 4-6-6-4 Challenger to the ultra-modern EuroStar bullet train. Players will haul over 35 different cargos between more than 150 different buildings, in a dynamic and fluctuating economy. Manipulating Railroad Tycoon 3's realistic stock market with margin buying, short selling, hostile takeovers and mergers, players can build up a massive fortune and even prosper by running their railroad into bankruptcy.
Railroad Tycoon 3 will have multi-player support, including an integrated chat and matchmaking service. The game's soundtrack features some of the best blues, bluegrass and Americana musicians in the nation, playing authentic music that even modern music enthusiasts will enjoy.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Played on Windows XP SP3.
My PC is in the shop, so i cracked open this game from my collection. I didnt really have patience or understand the game fully when it was released, so it wasnt on my PC for long. But having been replaying it over the past week, i have learned how to enjoy the game.
The game is based around building up your own train company between the 1800's-current day. Like other Tycoon games, as you would expect, you start with a small money budget and you have to then lay train track, and place stations between towns that you can make profit out of. you can build support buisneses to boost\profit from trade, like Hotels, or you can buy/build industrial buildings like Brewerys. Depending on the era, There are different types of trains to buy, also depending on your budget, and all with theyre own pros and cons. Then you can setup routes for your trains, on your tracks, and competition company tracks(which you have to pay them to use).
Every Town has its own needs, and with dozens of commodities, you can make huge profits if you supply the higher/price demand. But while goods are in transit, some perishable commodities will lower in price if it takes your train a long time to haul from point A to point B. But this is just the main part of the game, there is also the financial side, with stocks/shares and bank loans etc.
Your character, as company owner, can buy and sell shares in your, and competatives companies. The prices fluctuate depending on random events or historical events. Using this side of the game, when your company does well you can issue shares for cash, and pump it into your companies coffers to exrend your tracks/locations or invest in industry. Then where shares drop, buy them up, sell high, buy low, you know. Its a very interesting diversion from track matters.
In conclusion, visually it is nice for a Tycoon game, with detailed trains, terrain and buildings etc. The sound is nice, and the chap doing the voice acting is very good. I'm playing this on an old laptop, so the game specs arent demanding, and its enjoyable enough to pass the time.
My PC is in the shop, so i cracked open this game from my collection. I didnt really have patience or understand the game fully when it was released, so it wasnt on my PC for long. But having been replaying it over the past week, i have learned how to enjoy the game.
The game is based around building up your own train company between the 1800's-current day. Like other Tycoon games, as you would expect, you start with a small money budget and you have to then lay train track, and place stations between towns that you can make profit out of. you can build support buisneses to boost\profit from trade, like Hotels, or you can buy/build industrial buildings like Brewerys. Depending on the era, There are different types of trains to buy, also depending on your budget, and all with theyre own pros and cons. Then you can setup routes for your trains, on your tracks, and competition company tracks(which you have to pay them to use).
Every Town has its own needs, and with dozens of commodities, you can make huge profits if you supply the higher/price demand. But while goods are in transit, some perishable commodities will lower in price if it takes your train a long time to haul from point A to point B. But this is just the main part of the game, there is also the financial side, with stocks/shares and bank loans etc.
Your character, as company owner, can buy and sell shares in your, and competatives companies. The prices fluctuate depending on random events or historical events. Using this side of the game, when your company does well you can issue shares for cash, and pump it into your companies coffers to exrend your tracks/locations or invest in industry. Then where shares drop, buy them up, sell high, buy low, you know. Its a very interesting diversion from track matters.
In conclusion, visually it is nice for a Tycoon game, with detailed trains, terrain and buildings etc. The sound is nice, and the chap doing the voice acting is very good. I'm playing this on an old laptop, so the game specs arent demanding, and its enjoyable enough to pass the time.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This is a surprisingly fun and addictive little game.
The premise is to build and run a railroad, with the ancillary functions of buying industry and dealing in your company shares. The game itself is a number of scenarios based around this premise each with its own goals and objectives. So a good early one is to build a railroad over the Rocky mountains to connect up the two coasts of America - you have to run a profitable business, but the real obstacle is surmounting the tough terrain.
Later harder scenarios have conflicting objectives - generate a ton of electricity and have $25m in industry profits - I lost money on the electricity, so it was damn hard to do both.
By following the tutorial you can be in the thick of the game in minutes, but the instruction manual could give you a better idea how things work in detail for the nitty gritty of later games. Still it's a real giggle, and very satisfying to sit there playing with your choo choo's. There's a ton of scenarios too, and with bronze, silver & gold medals available for completion there's the push to really get the most out of each set of circumstances.
What is in effect a management game won't appeal to everyone, but if that kind of thing floats your boat RT3 is well worth a few quid. As it's an old game with undemanding spec's, it'd be particularly good to stick on a laptop for some casual mucking about on the train into work - see if you can do better!
UPDATE: FYI there's also a free expansion available online called 'Coast to Coast', well worth getting. Just google "RT3 Coast to Coast", download the files, and then copy the contents of the downloaded folders into the folders of the same name in the game on your hard drive. This will give you a number of new (tough) scenarios, extra train types and fixes a few bugs.
The premise is to build and run a railroad, with the ancillary functions of buying industry and dealing in your company shares. The game itself is a number of scenarios based around this premise each with its own goals and objectives. So a good early one is to build a railroad over the Rocky mountains to connect up the two coasts of America - you have to run a profitable business, but the real obstacle is surmounting the tough terrain.
Later harder scenarios have conflicting objectives - generate a ton of electricity and have $25m in industry profits - I lost money on the electricity, so it was damn hard to do both.
By following the tutorial you can be in the thick of the game in minutes, but the instruction manual could give you a better idea how things work in detail for the nitty gritty of later games. Still it's a real giggle, and very satisfying to sit there playing with your choo choo's. There's a ton of scenarios too, and with bronze, silver & gold medals available for completion there's the push to really get the most out of each set of circumstances.
What is in effect a management game won't appeal to everyone, but if that kind of thing floats your boat RT3 is well worth a few quid. As it's an old game with undemanding spec's, it'd be particularly good to stick on a laptop for some casual mucking about on the train into work - see if you can do better!
UPDATE: FYI there's also a free expansion available online called 'Coast to Coast', well worth getting. Just google "RT3 Coast to Coast", download the files, and then copy the contents of the downloaded folders into the folders of the same name in the game on your hard drive. This will give you a number of new (tough) scenarios, extra train types and fixes a few bugs.
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basic fun
idea of the game and game play is second to non,but....the graphics let this down big time.
i do play this game still which is due to the great way the interface for the... Read more
i do play this game still which is due to the great way the interface for the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by dang
RRT 3 wont work under Vista or Win7
NOTE: NOT FOR VISTA OR WIN 7.
Having got this for the Mac, where it's pretty good, I wanted to try the Windows version too. Read more
Having got this for the Mac, where it's pretty good, I wanted to try the Windows version too. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Dr. GDG Riddy
Very Disappointing
Having played an older, limited scenario version of Railroad Tycoon I was looking forward to upgrading to a full version, with enhanced features. Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2008 by F. Boddy
choo choo
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