Trainz Simulator 2009: World Builder Edition: Review

The first association with a railway is, of course, a knock of wheels. Uniform, soothing, lulling. It is because of this characteristic sound, the general atmosphere of a measuring trip, many prefer the train to an airplane or car. Telegraph poles fly outside the window, a little further, behind the embankment, possibly an impenetrable forest, or an endless field, which, in the end, merges with the sky into a single thread of the horizon.

But there is still a reverse side. Always dreamed of managing the composition? The special smell of railway fuel oil immediately causes in thoughts the image of a huge, seemingly clumsy, but such inevitably powerful diesel locomotive? So it’s time to sit down on "steering wheel". The fully interactive cabin of the driver with dozens of handles, valves, buttons and switches at your disposal. The textures, however, are somewhat dull, but the corrections and replacements in high resolution come out regularly and are easily installed.

Only by driving the train the possibilities of the game are not limited – you are subject to arrows, interchanges and other railway charms that cause a reverentwe with one species. For example, it was always interesting to me how the drivers are guided by this ball of unthinkable and seemingly tangled railway tracks. What do all these signs, semaphores and bizarre combinations of light signals mean? In the game, you will not only figure out what’s what, but you can manage this whole system. The player is allowed to take control of more than one composition, but several at once. You can manage personally, but you can get out over the ground and engage in global manipulations. For what? There are always goals for you. Transport passengers, mail, various bulk and fluid goods. Easily? We turn into a complete simulation mode with real physics, where the speed of speed in the site threatens disaster, and for loading, for example, coal must be perfectly maintained by the indicated 10 km / h. The task is many times more complicated if you choose the script "classic", where to manage is offered an ancient composition on steam move and lead it along historical routes.

The main task of a fresh simulator is new rouge-casino.co.uk tools for creating your own world (it is no coincidence that the full name is WorldBuilder Edition), its own railway. In Surveyor mode, you can manually plant trees, build roads, houses, change the landscape – in general, do what you want. The game, in fact, turns into an endless designer, only here we are not at all limited in the stock of details. Yes, and it will not work to lose anything. And from the set of your diesel locomotives, electric trains, high -speed expresses and old ones at the steam course, any collector will wake up envy. Just think, in the game more than 400 units of railway equipment are simulated.

Each car or diesel locomotive is carefully and reliably transferred to the digital form. In the Railyard section, you can find detailed information about everything: how much weighs, engine power, type of power plant, length, etc. However, it is supposed to be so, therefore, we will not reckon a large encyclopedia of railways to the pluses.

About sad and not very

First of all, of course, far from a modern graphic level is upset. Even at the maximum settings, the game was clearly not far away from the 2003 model, when the first appeared "annual" Game of series – Trainz 2004. Of course, the trees now do not look like two crossed sprinks with a black-green mass "leaves". People have become more beautiful, small details look distinctly and reliably, and in general the overall level is quite good, given the specifics of the genre. But no matter how do you do discounts, blurry greenish earth, almost flat sky and other small blunders sometimes roughly tear out from such a pleasant immersion in the simulation.

There is nothing to talk about the sound – everything is just fine. The wheels knock as it should. Brakes creak, but not deliberately. The beep, of course, is buzzing. The world around us also makes appropriate sounds. Only music is missing, but you can provide it yourself. Simulation and pleasure from this is a personal matter for everyone. There is no accurate recipe here, so it is logical that the music will all choose a different.

While everyone is waiting for Microsoft Train Simulator 2 (planned, by the way, for 2009), Trainz was and remains the best simulator of railways. So simple and without embellishment. Despite the fact that there is nothing to choose from – Auran From year to year he makes worthy of attention of the game. Now the move for Microsoft.

Pros: Perhaps the only worthy railway simulator today.
Cons: too blurry textures;Discomfort loading of world elements.