Sid still has a lot of steam in his engines.

User Rating: 9.1 | Sid Meier's Railroads! PC
By Ummagumma | Review Date:
It's true that I was a computer gamer long before, but Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon, released in 1990, certainly helped cement my love for everything gaming can provide on that platform. This kind of description is bandied about a lot these days, but it was truly one of those games there you sit down at the computer after dinner, and litterally the next thing you know dawn is breaking through the window and you're practicing your sick voice to call in to work to beg off.

I've only had a couple of hours on Sid's remake of his classic, but I'm loving everything I see. Streamlined is a word PC gamers these days equate to "dumbing down", but Sid Meier has a great knack for weeding out the chaff of his previous classics, and keeping the fun up front. Railroads! is no exception, where the annoyances of track laying have been done away with, keeping focus more on the strategy of railroad building instead of tiresome minutae. There's been some negative feedback that the maps you play in have been reduced in size, but honestly: back in 1990 I had lots of free time to build a railway empire across 2/3 of the US. These days such marathon game sessions invite a rolling pin across the base of the skull.

The end result is a great update, much in the mold of his remake of Pirates!. Alll aboooooaa... no, I won't say it!

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