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- Price: Free to try
- Operating system: Windows 95
- Date added: February 16, 1999
- Total Downloads: 401,137
- Downloads last week: 428
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- Average user rating: stars out of 182 votes
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Publisher's description
From PopTop Software :An intricate cargo web and a dynamic financial environment set the stage for your chance at showing the world what a true robber baron is capable of doing. Buy and sell stocks, schedule train routes, lay rail, build stations, and take over companies. Railroad Tycoon II boasts an intuitive interface, beautiful terrain, detailed rolling stock, and buildings designed to please dedicated train enthusiasts. If overseeing all of this is too much for you, let your manager take over, and just sweat the big stuff! Hire and fire managers to help run your company, each with talents and abilities far beyond those of nondigital men. You can also invite 15 of your closest friends to contest your title as a railroad tycoon in a real-time struggle for power.
The demo includes two fully playable scenarios: ""The Golden Age,"" focusing on the northeastern United States in the late 19th century, and ""Cape To Cairo,"" focusing on Cecil Rhodes' unsuccessful effort to build a railroad across Africa and unite the continent at the turn of the century.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 182 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Railroad Tycoon II
Pros: One of the best simulations ever made!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Railroad Tycoon II
"Good game, but German language greatly recommended to undertsand the demo!"
Pros: This game's fun. but only the full version of railroad tycoon II is available in English. I heard that in full version of this game its a choice either to have English language or German in the settings. Its pretty difficult if someone doesn't know German. I also have downloaded other railroad tycoon series demos, they are all in english only. So, its better that u do not download the game unless German is undertsandbale to you
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Version: Railroad Tycoon II
"You must understand German and yet it is complicated"
Pros: The graphics (map, railroad building visualisations, railway stations images), the complexity (lots of goods to freight, types of locs; not simplified - also some clashes with the Zulu people and other incidents occur influencing your business)
Cons: The game was pretty complicated to understand. (German was OK for me.) Yet, I could not find any help or some hints about the wagons and stuff. I did not get the idea how routing and managing trains work. Also what exactly those "Nachfrage" (request) and "Angebot" (offer) mean in terms of my business and trains? So time was passing by, and I had to restart the game several times and did not get it so far.
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Version: Railroad Tycoon II
"Unless you know German, Don't Download this program"
Pros: Has everything a demo should have and the game is an excellent experience. but...
Cons: It is all in german. so unless you know german don't download this game. it was a waste of space on my PC.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Railroad Tycoon II
Summary: .. shame about this demo. The demo is in German, and if you DO download it, make sure that you know that the German for Exit is "Verlassen"!
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