TRANSPORT GIANT - GOLD EDITION (DVD-ROM)
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Transport Giant starts in 1850 at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It's boom time for resourceful entrepreneurs in the Old World and the USA. How to get goods to your customers? Who will transport it all? Invest your funds wisely and establish your everlasting empire. Transport Giant Down Under sends you to the most fascinating but deadly place on Earth Australia. Transport essential resources to remote gold-mining villages, help the Royal... » full description
Transport Giant starts in 1850 at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. It's boom time for resourceful entrepreneurs in the Old World and the USA. How to get goods to your customers? Who will transport it all? Invest your funds wisely and establish your everlasting empire. Transport Giant Down Under sends you to the most fascinating but deadly place on Earth Australia. Transport essential resources to remote gold-mining villages, help the Royal Flying Doctors do their job or implement the technology to bring remote outback towns together.
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Features:
200 years packed with adventure, set in original locations with historically correct data and missions.
Over 150 vehicles from a variety of eras and locations from the horse drawn cart to high-speed trains, from hot air balloons to supersonic jetliners.
Giant amounts of fun for all ages, from beginners to pros!
"All in all, Transport Tycoon is everything we expected it to be and more. It looks great, it plays even better, and though it's really one for the virtual tycoon, it's accessible to anyone. spong.com
System requirements
- CPU: 500 MHz
- RAM: 64Mb
- Windows: 98/Me/XP/VISTA
- Graphics card: 16Mb DirectX 8.0 compatible
- Sound card: DirectX 8.0 compatible
- Disk space: 1.1Gb
- Disc drive: 4x DVD-ROM DRIVE
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User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-04-15
I'm so glad I bought this game despite all the negative reviews.
Pros:
- Excellent graphics (for this genre)
- Great gameplay (challenging, interesting and reasonably realistic)
- Huge variety of vehicles (from horses to trucks to trains to ships to airplanes to blimps and everything in between)
- Strong financial and industrial model
- Realistic yet fun
- Signals for railroads
- Visible city growth
- Competent AI
Cons:
- Eats memory as your network expands (slows down your system when you exit the game)
- Little help info (although there's a user manual on the website)
- Poor game music (if that matters)
I've previously played Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Railroad Tycoon 2 and Locomotion, and Transport Giant is far better than the rest. TTD and Locomotion have pathetic graphics which completely neutralizes any benefit of good gameplay, while RT2 is plain unrealistic in its lack of signals, deals with trains only and cities never grow beyond hutments!
This little-known gem is one of the best strategy games I've played, especially among the tycoon types. Granted, it's not perfect and there's a lot of negative publicity around it, but the least you can do is download the demo and try it for yourself.
User: R. Raghavan
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Summary: Great game, definitely worth a try
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2008-10-14
Very poor game. Not, fun at all. Basicly you set up transportation between two station bus, train. Then you buy vehicles like 2 choices. Game sucks, buy railroad tycoon, or pirates, or anything else.
User: Aaron A. Michels
Rating:
Summary: Bad
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 3
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Review Date: 2007-10-27
Ok, this game has a grate idea to make TTD type game with a new graphics. But this game has so many bugs, that you can't play it. I.E. in European scenario it won't build a railway corners, and in Australian scenario, it stopped building at all. Now, the best part there are two patches for the game, so I installed both - now it saying that I have a wrong disc so the game doesn't even start.
User: Vidis
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Summary: The worst game I've ever bought
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 5
Product Details
- State of the art Isometric graphics /Plenty of different vehicles (from steam loco to supra conductor trains
- State of the art Isometric graphics /Plenty of different vehicles (from steam loco to supra conductor trains
- Seasonal changes are visible in the game / Endless game or campaigns
- Build up a transport system with infrastructure / Covers all transportation means from horse-drawn vehicle to supra conductor trains
- Detailed signal guiding system for trains / Only transportation simulation on the market to date