A lot to improve, well...this is the second review!
Sound: Good
Graphics: Good (For 2002)
Everything is OK, except for the most important, the gameplay. They still have a lot to improve on the gameplay, maybe its name "Industry Giant", make it have to improve. 'Industry' can have a lot of different types, for example (not likely to be example), in the real world, of course we can set up a business, but what you want to produce or service, like transportation industry, Real Estate Industry, Manufacture and retail industry etc. This can be compared with 'Capitalism 2', a very big difference. Maybe the old time 1900s do not have stock market and do not live in apartments...but this may be possible when the time reach 1970s. The warehouse is good, with big picture of you product and no. of boxes in it, you can just look at it instantly.
Another thing is, the transportation of the goods and material. Luckily in the real world does not have a lot of terminals, normally truck terminals should be outside (still within the area) or at any corner of any factories, but this is different, a big terminal and a warehouse on the ground. Factories have their own warehouse too, why is there a need to build a warehouse, factories can store some goods in their own warehouse but there is also a limit too. The AIs do not really care about the material, they just build their buildings over the material, then I do not have a chance to get more material or just have no space to build the mine! I can agree that material will finish, but wood will not finish fast, wood from trees, trees will grow and reproduce, why wood will not reproduce in this game? If you like a game that it always need you to sit back and relax, this is a good choice. I can agree with Gamespot's review, you have to sit back and have a cup of beverage until the roads are jammed by your trucks, too many trucks on the road and makes everything slow down, too much different types of goods in your warehouse and waste some goods arriving or all the same type of goods fill up the entire warehouse and not accepting others arriving. The trucks are loading and waiting for more goods, sometimes the terminal is full and trucks arriving have to stop and wait outside the terminal and if too many trucks arriving at the same time, they may block the others vehicle that are only passing by the terminal.
The expansion have improve some and added more features!
The add-on to Industry Giant II covers the time period from 1980 to 2020. Industry Giant II fans can look forward to products like cell phones and computers; the more nostalgic among the players get additional products like jewellery industry and coffeehouses available from 1900 on.
Many new means of transportation will challenge the player like high-speed trains and helicopters with dedicated heliports. These combine the advantages of trucks (small stations) and planes (high speed).
The newly implemented overseas ports will give you a new strategic approach by importing and exporting goods, expanding your field of action beyond the borders of the map.
Control of storage space was much improved. Now you can link factories and railway stations to certain storage places to influence the flow of goods directly. Inside the storage space, management is much easier now since you can control every single unit of storage place individually, which leads to a better use of capacity.
But another thing, the expansion does not have a stock market although the years are same as now.
I recommend that if you are willing to buy Industry Giant 2, don't buy individually, you can straight away buy the Gold Edition.