Incomplete game which offers little in return for victory.

User Rating: 5 | Lionel Trains On Track DS
Choo choo.

I'd expected a simple "train simulator" when I'd purchased this game. Trains starting, brakes screeching and ding ding. Little of those things existed in this "shipment simulator".

In Lionel Trains On Track, you purchase trains, connect cities, decide routes and try to turn a profit. This is done by choosing what supplies trains pick up in one city to fulfill the demands in the next.You can also develop cities, but think of it more as an upgraded depot than a city simulation.

Visuals really lack polish, as does a confusing interface where a lock symbol means "activated" and a dimmed button means "selected. Trains follow tracks inaccurately with what looks like a low budget animation staff. No 3D visuals where used save for the opening screen.

Unless you are absolutely obsessed with the very idea of trains (and shipping steel and wheat at the press of a button) this is a title to stay away from.