When I was growing up, the local Lions Club park had an old decommissioned steam engine in the playground - all the kids in the neighborhood would spend hours playing there, recreating in our imaginations everything from hijacking in the old west to journeys across the Alps. From the opening of the American west to steadfast reliability of British Rail or the speed of modern bullet trains, for nearly years railroads have captured the hearts and minds of thousands. Trains are a part of the magic buried in our collective dreams. Its relaxing pace and attention to detail allows you to sit back and simply enjoy driving trains without the risk of getting beaten up by Irate commuters. The same thing can apply to Microsoft Train Simulator, well sort of anyway. Then there's Steve Hill's well-documented obsession with Championship Manager.
Our very own Chris Anderson, gets to fulfil his boyhood fantasy of being an all-powerful bearded necromancer with a pointy hat and a ridiculous beard every time he plays EverQuest, while Rhianna regularly indulges her sadistic desires by torturing pixies in Dungeon Keeper 2. To a certain extent we all try to live out some of our dreams through games. Microsoft Train Simulator's strongest feature is its realism. Just take a look at the success of Microsoft Flight Simulatorin which you get to pilot a plane from one airport to the next In real timeduring which your most dangerous obstacle is the occasional stray pigeon, and you'll understand what I'm getting at.
When you think about it, though, it's not really all that strange. Who would have thought it? A train simulation that is actually fun. But let's hope it stops there a couple of years from now I don't want to be previewing Caravan Sim -all the thrills and spills of open-road caravanning from the comfort of your bedroom Technically, there's no faulting it. Boring or not, TYain Simulator is breaking new ground for sim games, and if it attracts the same kind of audience as Flight Sim, its success is assured. There's no doubt that this feature makes the possible scope for TYain Sim huge.Įxpect to see new routes, locomotives, landscapes and buildings, spreading like Internet wildfire after the game's release this spring.
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This will allow you to create your own rail routes and locomotives, plus terraform and decorate the landscape to suit your whims.
One of the most unique things about the package, and one that will reach deep into the hearts of train enthusiasts everywhere, is the route editor package included with the game, which contains many of the original tools used to create the sim. Each train requires a different style of driving, from extending the flange valve and cranking up the ratchet handle on the steam locomotives which will undoubtedly be the game's strongest selling pointto the random button pushing and dial watching involved in manipulating the current electric beasts. This puts you in the driving seat on routes such as The Flying Scotsman from Settle to Carlisle in the s, or a modern-day freight train through the Rocky Mountains.
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This sim, which seems destined to do for trains what Flight Simulator did for planes, puts you primarily in the role of an engine driver in charge of one of a number of steam, diesel and electric locomotives and allows you to drive them across miles of authentically landscaped real-world routes.Īlternatively, you can just take a passenger's eye view and spend the time admiring the digital scenery. How could anyone think about taking a form of transport that is fundamentally boring in the first place, and actually try to simulate that boredom? However, after seeing the sim I wouldn't say I was actually a convert, but I've a little more appreciation for what the thermo-clutching masses are on about.Īnd the fact remains that some people just adore trains -usually quiet men of a certain age who remember when trains were interesting, romantic even, and when a new a la carte menu didn't just mean the same crap as before only with a sprig of parsley on top. When I was asked to go and look at Microsoft's Train Simulator, the very words filled me with a kind of quiet dread. I've never been able to muster much enthusiasm about trains, but 1 have sympathy for those who do.
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