This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges.
Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence. You’ll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. The game really starts to get addictive when you see your network of railroads reach more and more cities and your income start to rise.ĭepending on the level of difficulty you choose, you’ll also come across rough competition and you’ll have to protect your assets from truly aggressive entrepreneurs.Įven though the graphics don’t compare to what you’ll find in the latest release, Sid Meier’s Railroads, the simulation aspect of Railroad Tycoon is as much thrilling now as it was 10 year ago.Discover the New World and fulfill your Manifest Destiny! You’ll soon become familiar with all the varieties of locomotives, like the Norris, Crocodile or Ten-Wheeler.
You start off with a million dollars (of which you’ll have to pay back $500,000) and must first choose a good location, build a station and then start laying tracks. Original gamers of SMRT, will fondly appreciate the minimalistic graphics, midi country music, pixelized area maps, but most of all, the crux of the whole series, managing your money and assets. You won’t have to access DOS to play the game because it features its very own DOS Box. Those of you who are worried about compatibility: fear not.
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