60 Second Review of…
Rails across America
Tom's Review: The year's most original strategy game
is also the cleverest game about money since Stardock's unsung Entrepreneur/Corporate
Machine, which was itself the cleverest game about money since M.U.L.E.
Rails is about war in brass-and-mohoghany board rooms, where the
wounded bleed green, where track and trains spill out of the disemboweled,
and where a bankruptcy is as good as a gib. All the while you're
covering an unspoiled virgin map of America with railroads, the
pulsing veins of commerce and prosperity. Elegant, exciting, superbly
paced, unique, challenging, and addictive. Dani Bunten would have
been proud.
Read Tom's full review in the December issue of Computer
Games Magazine.
Publisher: Strategy First
Developer: Flying Labs
Genre: streamlined strategy
Requirements: understanding that this ain't Railroad Tycoon
January 8, 2002
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