Inspire wrote:I just bought Transport Giant and the game sucks... I mean great graphics, a lot of good ideas, but the gameplay...
I just love the gameplay of a game from Chris...
First no tutorial, and believe it's not easy to understand why i build a station and to build rail i got to make another station or to build a station i need first to have rail build ( confusing ).. Lot's of bugs, and the new patch for the english version is late... If there's was a toturial would be 100 times more easy to understand this game...
I can't wait for locomotion, it may not be perfect but the gameplay should be 100 times better than transport giant... People don't buy this just wait for locomotion...
I agree with the above, I found the longer I played the game, the less I liked it. I played the "Great Britain" endless game scenario, first of all starting in 1950. There were 3 British steam locomotives available, but the rest were continental, and no new British locos became available at all as time progressed. In fact, if you start the game in 1975 or 2000, there are no British locos available at all!
On starting the game in the 1800`s, there are two modern coal-fired power stations close to London, which looked totally out-of-place for the period, and I found the game increasingly incongruous, especially when Neuschwanstein Castle popped up in East Anglia requiring bricks. In another game, the White House suddenly appeared in deepest Cornwall! The stations are of a continental design, which looked odd in a UK setting, and when a new industry in the form of an olive grove (!) opened in west Scotland, that was the final nail in the coffin.
The locomotive, building and running costs are unbelieveably high in comparison to the income and make it very difficult to get off the ground. There are three lengths of station available, the shortest being 8 loco lengths long, but I couldn`t believe my eyes, when playing against the computer, when my competitor pulled a 24-wagon train out of a station of this length. The only reason longer platform lengths are available is so you can put more ancilliary buildings on them, it has nothing to do with the length of the trains, as in TTD.
Transport Giant has many things going for it if only the gameplay was better and the graphics more in keeping with the location and period chosen by the player.
BTW, if you have a TG you want to sell, just mention it on the TG forum, it`ll be snapped up by someone in N. America quick as a flash!
Roll on Locomotion!
Lazza
I've got my money going towards Locomotion and San Andreas.
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