A special curiosity comes in the form of the TurboTrain, the ill-fated Amtrak/ VIA Rail experiment in turbine propulsion. Many of these, based on insanely powerful Alco and EMD American models, haul huge loads up steep hills far faster than any of the British locomotives in the temperate climate. New for the arctic and tropical areas area selection of new railroad locomotives. Thankfully, building tracks in the desert is very cheap, which is welcome when you consider the small fortune required even for a single track rail line through the dense forests. Towns in the desert need water, and again this becomes a lucrative and vital business route.

Meanwhile, the tropical area is home to both extremely dense rainforests and barren deserts. Supplying the snowbound towns with food is a major part of your business here, so invest wisely in powerful locomotives to haul your cargo up the mountains. In the arctic world, you have verdant valleys for farming and large cities, while above the snowline you have some industries and smaller towns. And a rubbish toyland, but the less said about that one the better. No longer restricted to the temperate UK, you now also have a Nordic/ North American arctic world, and a South American tropical world. The next major addition is that of the new worlds. Designating two tracks to climb a steep grade and only one to descend it is fantastic. Suffice it to say, trains were always to best part of the game, and this makes them even more fun and useful. You can now create proper 'up' and 'down' tracks, one-way belt lines and other great tricks. This allows for far more, prototypical operations of your rail network.

The most major improvement to the game is one way signals for railways. So, if you've settled into your seats, the train is leaving the station.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe improves on that winning formula by adding a ton of new features. It's fantastic stuff, easily one of the best strategy games ever written (yes, even more so than Railroad Tycoon 2). Starting in the middle of the 20th century, you progress through increasingly fast and powerful means of transportation, watching the cities develop. Basically, you construct road, rail, air and sea transportation networks across a huge continent, delivering cargo between industries, goods to cities, and carrying passengers and mail. But I digress.įor those who don't know, Transport Tycoon is a sweet little isometric 3D business management game by the great and wise Chris Sawyer, mixed with SimCity and just a dash of A-Train. Well, except it's not an expansion pack - that was the Mars/ world editor thing. Transport Tycoon Deluxe is what expansion packs should be - take everything that's great about the original game, and give us more. If you really need more information, go there. Other than that, it's a lot like Transport Tycoon. So only eastbound trains use the eastbound track and only westbound trains use the westbound track. The way it works is this: you build one track going each way, and then you build one-way lamps on each side. The way it's better than the original Transport Tycoon lights is that, in the original, they could only be built on straight sections of track (As opposed to diagonal), and they could not be one-directional. It prevents messy explosions and allows you to have high-traffic stations (3 or 4 or 10 or 12 or, heck, 50 trains sharing 1 track each way). They tell a train that it can/can not go forward because there is/is not another train on the tracks. But most importantly there's a better version of an old construction option for trains: Factories and other second-stage industry (manufacturing as opposed to mining/harvesting/etc) no longer have production limits. It is built on the same engine, but there are several bug fixes, additions, etc.įor instance: There are now more vehicles/aircraft/ships/trains and all of the names have been altered. Transport Tycoon Deluxe is sort of like the expansion to Transport Tycoon although it is standalone.

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