I just played a bit of the demo. Sid Meier's Railroads offers small changes and differences from Railroad Tycoon 3. There seems to be more industry animations. (example: log camp is shown cutting down a tree, the log rolls out of the camp and is then swooped up by a crane and placed on a flat bed train car for transport to a paper mill.) However, the industry itself seems disconnected from the game world. (example: taking the example from above... The log camp cuts down the tree, but the single tree magically appears just before being cut down. The tree isn't taken from a forest nor does the map show a forest in the area. It just magically appears.) It seems that Railroads is like playing a table top train set combined with a business simulation board game. From my limited experience with the game, I would say that YES there are differences between the two games. (Primarily Graphical) Are these differences enough to make the purchase worthwhile?... NO if you already own Railroads Tycoon 3. I found myself wishing that Railroads Tycoon 3 would have done a few things that Railroads offered and vice versa. However, none that would make me abandon one or purchase the other.
Overall rating is around an 7.5 or so.. fun but a whole lot of been there done that. A shame really since Feraxis knew going into this that Railroads Tycoon 3 was in the market place already. Common sense dictates that you improve existing content in the marketplace. You don't simply duplicate it.
Sid Meier's Railroads (SMR) is a very pretty game. I like the little colorful trains and towns. All of the annexes you build near outlying resources are different depending on the type of resource. For instance, when ... Read Full Review
As much as I wanted to like this game, I found it completely unsatisfying. It's billed by Firaxis/2K Games as a strategy/simulation, but whatever it simulates, it's not a railroad, and build it faster is about the only s... Read Full Review
